Bird (nickname)
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