Bayard (surname)

Bayard is a French 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
• 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 (politician, born 1767) (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 Bayard (1738–1807), American statesman from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; delegate to the Continental Congress
• Marcel Bayard (1895–1956) French mathematician and prominent telecommunication engineer
• Mary Temple Bayard (1853–1916), American writer, journalist
• Nicholas Bayard (c. 1644–1707), 16th mayor of New York, Peter Stuyvesant's brother-in-law, and founder of the Bayard family
• Nicholas Bayard (theologian), Dominican theologian
• 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