Bayard (surname)
Bayard is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Bayard family, a prominent American family of lawyers and politicians founded by Nicholas Bayard
- Alexis I. du Pont Bayard, American politician from Delaware
- Émile Bayard, French illustrator
- George Dashiell Bayard, Union Army general in the American Civil War
- Hippolyte Bayard, French photography pioneer
- James A. Bayard , American politician from Delaware, US representative and senator
- James A. Bayard, Jr., American politician from Delaware, US senator, son of James A. Bayard
- Jean-François Bayard, French playwright
- John Bubenheim Bayard, American statesman from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; delegate to the Continental Congress
- Marcel Bayard French mathematician and prominent telecommunication engineer
- Nicholas Bayard, 16th mayor of New York, Peter Stuyvesant's brother-in-law, and founder of the Bayard family
- Nicholas Bayard, Dominican theologian
- Pierre Bayard, French author and professor of literature
- Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard , French soldier, known as le chevalier sans peur et sans reproche
- Richard H. Bayard, American politician from Delaware, mayor of Wilmington and US senator
- Samuel Preston Bayard, American folklorist
- Stephen Bayard, mayor of New York City from 1744 to 1747
- Thomas F. Bayard, American politician, statesman, and senator
- Thomas F. Bayard, Jr., American lawyer and politician, US senator from Delaware
