Bird or The Bird is a nickname for:
Bird Averitt (born 1952), American retired National Basketball Association and American Basketball Association playerCharlie Parker (1920–1955), American jazz musicianMark Fidrych (1954–2009), American baseball pitcherMutsuhiro Watanabe (died 2003), Japanese World War II sergeant and war criminalGeorge Yardley (1928–2004), American basketball playerKathleen York, American singer, songwriter and actress