Bird or The Bird is a nickname for:
Bird Averitt (born 1952), American retired National Basketball Association and American Basketball Association player
Charlie Parker (1920–1955), American jazz musician
Mark Fidrych (1954–2009), American baseball pitcher
Mutsuhiro Watanabe (died 2003), Japanese World War II sergeant and war criminal
George Yardley (1928–2004), American basketball player
Kathleen York, American singer, songwriter and actress
