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Bard can mean several things:

Contents 1 In music 2 A type of person 3 Fictional bards 4 The Bard as a nickname 5 Surnames 6 Companies and Organizations 7 Places 8 Other 9 See also

• Bard, the third studio album by English progressive rock band, Big Big Train
• The Bard's Song, is a song by German Power Metal band Blind Guardian.

• Bard, a type of priest or seer in ancient Celtic society, and a minstrel in medieval Scottish, Irish and Welsh societies; and later re-used by romantic writers
• Bard (Soviet Union), popular poets and singers who wrote songs outside the Soviet establishment

• Bard (Dungeons & Dragons), a character class in the game Dungeons & Dragons
• Bard, a character class in the Final Fantasy series of games
• Bards are a second class in Ragnarok Online
• Bard the Bowman, abbreviated: Bard, a character from The Hobbit
• The Bard (The Twilight Zone), an episode of The Twilight Zone television show
• Jason Bard, character in DC Comics

The Bard is a name for various literary and musical figures:

• The Bard of Avon (also The Immortal Bard, or in England, simply The Bard) is William Shakespeare
• The Bard of Ayrshire (or in Scotland, simply The Bard) is Robert Burns
• The Bard of Barking is a nickname given to Billy Bragg
• The Bard of Olney is William Cowper
• The Bard of Rydal Mount is William Wordsworth
• The Bard of the Silv'ry Tay is William Topaz McGonagall
• The Bard of Twickenham is Alexander Pope
• The Bard of Salford is an affectionate nickname given to John Cooper Clarke

• Alexander Bard, a Swedish philosopher, artist and record producer, founder of the Swedish electronic pop band BWO
• Ben Bard, actor
• Charles Bard, 2nd Viscount Bellomont
• Daniel Bard, Major league baseball player
• David Bard, United States Representative from Pennsylvania (1795 - 1799)
• Guy K. Bard, U.S. District Court
• Henri Bard, French footballer.
• Henry Bard, 1st Viscount Bellomont
• Howard B. Bard, Unitarian minister.
• Joseph Bard, expatriate Hungarian writer
• Josh Bard, a professional baseball player currently with the San Diego Padres
• Maria Bard, German stage actress,
• Mitchell Bard, American foreign policy analyst and historian
• Ralph Austin Bard, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, (1941–1944)
• Thomas R. Bard, a former United States Senator

• Bard on the Beach, Western Canada's largest Shakespeare festival
• C. R. Bard, Inc., a manufacturer of medical equipment known for its 1934 commercial introduction of the Foley catheter

• Bard, Loire, is a commune of the Loire département, in France
• Bard, Italy is a municipality in the Aosta Valley region of Italy
• Bard College, a liberal arts college in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
• Bard College at Simon's Rock, a liberal arts college specifically for early entrants in Great Barrington, Massachusetts

• A variant of barding, a type of armor for horses
• A book by Morgan Llywelyn, Bard: The Odyssey of the Irish
• A book in Keith Taylor's "Bard" series, Bard
• Bard's blessing, a Scottish custom

• Three Bards (Polish: trzej wieszcze)
• Barding and larding