Bayard (surname)
Appearance
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 (1918–1985), American politician from Delaware
- Bayard family, American family of lawyers and politicians from Delaware
- Émile Bayard (1837-1891), French illustrator
- George Dashiell Bayard (1835–1862), Union Army general in the American Civil War
- Hippolyte Bayard (1801–1877), French photography pioneer
- James A. Bayard (elder) (1767–1815), American politician from Delaware, US representative and senator
- James A. Bayard, Jr. (1799–1888), American politician from Delaware, US senator, son of James A. Bayard
- Jean-François Bayard (1796–1853), French playwright
- John Bubenheim Bayard (1738–1807), American statesman from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; delegate to the Continental Congress
- Nicholas Bayard Nicholas Bayard (c. 1644–1707), 16th mayor of New York, Peter Stuyvesant's brother-in-law, and founder of the Bayard family
- Pierre Bayard (1954–), French author and professor of literature
- Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard (Chevalier de Bayard) (1473–1524), French soldier, known as le chevalier sans peur et sans reproche
- Richard H. Bayard (1796–1868), American politician from Delaware, mayor of Wilmington and US senator
- Samuel Preston Bayard (1908–1997), American folklorist
- Stephen Bayard, mayor of New York City from 1744 to 1747
- Thomas F. Bayard (1828–1898), American politician, statesman, and senator
- Thomas F. Bayard, Jr. (1868–1942), American lawyer and politician, US senator from Delaware