Bayard (given name)

Bayard is a masculine given name. Bearers of the name include:

People

• Bayard Clarke (1815–1884), United States Representative from New York
• Bayard Elfvin (born 1981), American assistant Northwestern University soccer coach and retired goalkeeper
• Bayard H. Faulkner (1894–1983), American politician from New Jersey, mayor of Montclair, New Jersey
• Bayard Johnson (1952–2016), American film director
• Bayard H. Paine (1872–1955), justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court
• Bayard Rustin (1912–1987), American civil rights activist, mentor of Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Bayard Schieffelin (1903–1989), an American philanthropist and director of the New York Public Library
• Herbert Bayard Swope (1882–1958), American editor and journalist
• Bayard Taylor (1825–1878), American author from Pennsylvania
• Bayard Veiller (1869–1943), American screenwriter, producer and film director

Fictional characters

• Bayard Delavel, in Elinor Glyn's novel The Great Moment and the movie The Great Moment
• Bayard Hamar, the bloodhound in Tim Burton's 2010 film Alice In Wonderland
• Bayard Sartoris, two related men in William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County series of novels, first appearing in Sartoris
• Bayard, the hunter who is opposed to the WWE building a city in his forest in the film Scooby-Doo! WrestleMania Mystery
• Sir Bayard Brightblade, Knight of Solamnia from the Dragonlance Heroes series, ancestor of Hero of the Lance from Dragonlance Chronicles Sturm Brightblade. Featured in "Weasel's Luck" and "Galen Beknighted".