Byrd commonly refers to:
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William Byrd
William Byrd (; 4 July 1623) was an English Renaissance composer. Considered among the greatest composers of the Renaissance, he had a profound influence on composers both from his native country and on the Continental Europe, Continent. He i ...
(c. 1540 – 1623), an English composer of the Renaissance
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Richard E. Byrd
Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr. (October 25, 1888 – March 11, 1957) was an American naval officer, and pioneering aviator, polar explorer, and organizer of polar logistics. Aircraft flights in which he served as a navigator and expedition leader cr ...
(1888–1957), an American naval officer and explorer
Byrd or Byrds may also refer to:
Other people
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Byrd (surname)
Byrd is a surname of English and Irish origin, a variant of the surname Bird.
Notable people with the surname
* A. Dean Byrd (1948–2012), American psychologist
* Adam M. Byrd (1859–1912), American politician
* Adrianne Byrd (1970–2020), A ...
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Byrd Baylor
Byrd Baylor (March 28, 1924 – June 16, 2021) was an American novelist, essayist, and author of picture books for children. Four of her books have achieved Caldecott Honor status.
Background
Byrd Baylor was born in March 1924 in San Antonio, Te ...
(1924–2021), American children's writer
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Byrd Billings (died 2009), American murder victim
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Byrd Brown (1929–2001), American lawyer and Civil Rights activist
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Byrd D. Crudup (1897–1960), American football and basketball coach
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Byrd Spilman Dewey (1856–1942), American author and land investor
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Byrd Dickens (born 1971), Canadian former actor
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Byrd Douglas (1894–1965), American college baseball and football coach and judge
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Byrd Gibbens (born 1936), American historian and professor
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Byrd Hill (1800–1872), American slave trader
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Byrd Leavell, American literary agent
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Byrd Lockhart (1782–1839), American surveyor, Alamo defender, courier, and Texian officer
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Byrd Lynn (1889–1940), American baseball player
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Byrd Mock (1876–1966), American writer, journalist, poet, publisher, and golfer
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Byrd Prillerman
Byrd Prillerman (October 19, 1859April 25, 1929) was an American educator and school administrator. Prillerman was the fourth principal of the West Virginia Collegiate Institute (present-day West Virginia State University) from 1909 un ...
(1859–1929), American educator and school administrator
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Byrd Whigham
Robert Byrd Whigham (June 13, 1933 – October 22, 2017) was an American minor league baseball player and college football coach. He served as the head football coach at Troy State University—now known as Troy University
Troy University is ...
(1933–2017), American minor league baseball player and college football coach
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Byrd White, American accountant and West Virginia government official
Places
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Byrd, Alabama, United States
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Marie Byrd Land
Marie Byrd Land (MBL) is an unclaimed region of Antarctica. With an area of , it is the largest unclaimed territory on Earth. It was named after the wife of American naval officer Richard E. Byrd, who explored the region in the early 20th centu ...
, Antarctica
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Mount Byrd
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Byrd Station
The Byrd Station is a former research station established by the United States during the International Geophysical Year by U.S. Navy Seabees during Operation Deep Freeze II in West Antarctica. It was a year-round base until 1972, and then se ...
, a former U.S. research station
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Byrd (lunar crater), on the Moon
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Byrd (Martian crater), on Mars
Other uses
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The Byrds
The Byrds () were an American Rock music, rock band formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1964. The band underwent multiple lineup changes throughout its existence, with frontman Roger McGuinn (known as Jim McGuinn until mid-1967) being the so ...
, an American rock band
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Byrd Amendment, the Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act of 2000, an American legislative act
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Byrd Amendment (1971), to the U.S. Federal Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act
*Byrd Brand,
knives from Spyderco
*Byrd Rule, governing
reconciliation in the U.S. Congress
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Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center
The Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center (BPCRC) is a polar, alpine, and climate research center at Ohio State University founded in 1960.
History and research
The Byrd Polar Research Center (BPRC) at Ohio State University was established in ...
at
Ohio State University
The Ohio State University (Ohio State or OSU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio, United States. A member of the University System of Ohio, it was founded in 1870. It is one ...
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Byrd Stadium, now SECU Stadium, at the
University of Maryland
The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland, United States. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the Univ ...
, U.S.
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Bird (disambiguation)
A bird is a feathered, winged, bipedal, warm-blooded, egg-laying, vertebrate.
Bird, BIRD, or the bird may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment Fictional characters
*Tracy "Bird" Van Adams, in the ''Soul Food'' film and TV series
*Bird, of the Ba ...
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Birds (disambiguation)
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