Beard (disambiguation)
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Beard
A beard is the collection of hair that grows on the chin, cheeks and neck of human beings. Usually, only pubescent or adult males are able to grow beards. However, women with hirsutism may develop a beard...

is a type of human facial hair, and also refers to a dangling hair growth on goat
Goat
The domestic goat is a subspecies of goat domesticated from the wild goat of southwest Asia and Eastern Europe. The goat is a member of the Bovidae family and is closely related to the sheep as both are in the goat-antelope subfamily Caprinae. There are over three hundred distinct breeds of...

s.

Beard may also refer to:

People

  • Adrien Beard
    Adrien Beard
    Adrien Beard is an American storyboard artist and voice actor. He can currently be heard on the animated cartoon TV series South Park as the voice of Token Black. In addition to voice roles, Adrien Beard also works as the art director and lead storyboarder on the show.-External links:...

    , American voice actor
  • Al Beard
    Al Beard
    Albert "Al" Beard is a retired American basketball player.He played collegiate basketball for the Norfolk State University.He played for the New Jersey Americans in the ABA for 12 games....

    , former American basketball player
  • Alana Beard
    Alana Beard
    -External links:****...

    , American basketball player
  • Amanda Beard
    Amanda Beard
    Amanda Ray Beard is an American swimmer and a seven-time Olympic medalist . She is a former world record holder in the 200-meter breaststroke ....

    , American Olympic swimmer and model
  • Andrew Jackson Beard
    Andrew Jackson Beard
    Andrew Jackson Beard was an African-American inventor of Rocketry and the Rotary Engine. He was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in Akron, Ohio for his work on railroad coupler design....

    , American inventor
  • Annette Beard
    Annette Beard
    Annette Beard Sterling Helton is an American R&B and soul singer, most notable for being one of the original members of popular Motown singing group Martha and the Vandellas.-Early years:...

    , American R&B singer, original member of Martha and the Vandellas
  • Bert Beard
    Bert Beard
    Albert 'Bert' Beard was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the VFL during the 1930s....

    , Australian rules footballer
  • Butch Beard
    Butch Beard
    Alfred "Butch" Beard Jr. is a former National Basketball Association player and head coach. He was the head coach at Morgan State University until he stepped down in March 2006. Butch Beard played college basketball at the University of Louisville...

    , American basketball player and coach
  • Charles A. Beard
    Charles A. Beard
    Charles Austin Beard was, with Frederick Jackson Turner, one of the most influential American historians of the first half of the 20th century. He published hundreds of monographs, textbooks and interpretive studies in both history and political science...

    , influential American historian
  • Clarke Beard
    Clarke Beard
    Clarke Briar Beard was an American athlete who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics in London.In the 800 metres, Beard won a close race in the first round. His time was 1:59.2. In the final, Beard was disqualified....

    , American athlete
  • Colin Beard
    Colin Beard
    Colin Beard is a former Australian rules football player who played in the VFL between 1969 and 1971 for the Richmond Football Club.Originally from South Fremantle in the WAFL, where he won the club's Best & Fairest award in 1966, he returned there after his three seasons at Richmond and was coach...

    , former Australian rules footballer
  • Daniel Carter Beard
    Daniel Carter Beard
    Daniel Carter "Uncle Dan" Beard was an American illustrator, author, youth leader, and social reformer who founded the Sons of Daniel Boone in 1905, which Beard later merged with the Boy Scouts of America .-Early life:...

    , founder of the Sons of Daniel Boone
  • David Beard, Australian volleyball player
  • DeLawrence Beard, American judge
  • Don Beard
    Don Beard
    Donald Derek Beard was a New Zealand cricketer who played in 4 Tests from 1952 to 1956....

    , New Zealand cricketer
  • Dympna Beard
    Dympna Beard
    Dympna Anne Beard was an Australian politician. She was an Australian Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 2002 to 2006.Beard was born in Colac, Victoria....

    , Australian politician
  • Ed Beard
    Ed Beard
    For the football player of the same name see Ed Beard .Ed Beard, or Edward Beard, aka Edward "Red" Beard, was a gambler and saloon keeper of the Old West....

    , saloon keeper in the American Old West
  • Ed Beard (football player)
    Ed Beard (football player)
    Edward Leroy Beard is a former professional American football player.-Education:A 1959 graduate of Oscar F. Smith High School in South Norfolk,Virginia, Beard was an All-American and also State Heavyweight...

    , American football player
  • Edward Beard
    Edward Beard
    Edward Peter Beard was a U.S. Representative from Rhode Island.Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Beard attended Assumption Elementary School and Hope High School, Providence, where he completed high school as well as a college-level course in agriculture. He worked as a painter. He served in the...

    , U.S. congressman from Rhode Island
  • Emma Beard, British singer
  • Frank Beard (golfer), American golfer
  • Frank Beard (musician)
    Frank Beard (musician)
    Frank Lee Beard is the drummer in the rock band ZZ Top. Beard was formerly with the bands The Cellar Dwellars, who originally were a three-piece band, The Hustlers, The Warlocks, and American Blues before starting to play and record with Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill as ZZ Top.Beard was born in...

    , drummer in the American rock band ZZ Top
  • Gary Beard
    Gary Beard
    Gary James Beard is a former conservative Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from East Baton Rouge Parish who was handily defeated in his bid for lieutenant governor in the jungle primary held on October 20, 2007. Beard ran third in the race with 130,935...

    , American politician
  • George Miller Beard
    George Miller Beard
    George Miller Beard was a U.S. neurologist who popularized the term neurasthenia, starting around 1869.-Biography:...

    , American neurologist who coined the term "neurasthenia"
  • Gordon Beard
    Gordon Beard
    Gordon Wilbert Beard was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Manitoba Legislature from 1963 to 1968, and an independent member from 1969 to 1972....

    , Canadian politician
  • Graeme Beard
    Graeme Beard
    Graeme Robert Beard is a former Australian cricketer who played in 3 Tests and 2 ODIs from 1980 to 1981....

    , former Australian cricketer
  • Hazel Beard
    Hazel Beard
    Hazel Fain Beard is the first woman and the first Republican to have served as mayor of Shreveport, Louisiana, since the era of Reconstruction. A fiscal conservative, Mrs...

    , American politician
  • Henry Beard
    Henry Beard
    Henry N. Beard is an American humorist, one of the founders of the magazine National Lampoon and the author of several best-selling books.-Biography:...

    , founder of the American humor magazine National Lampoon
  • James Beard
    James Beard
    James Andrew Beard was an American chef and food writer. The central figure in the story of the establishment of a gourmet American food identity, Beard was an eccentric personality who brought French cooking to the American middle and upper classes in the 1950s...

    , American chef and food writer
    • James Beard Foundation
      James Beard Foundation
      The James Beard Foundation is a New York-based national professional non-profit organization named in honor of James Beard that serves to promote the culinary arts by honoring chefs, wine professionals, journalists, and cookbook authors at annual award ceremonies and providing scholarships and...

    • James Beard Award
    • James Beard Foundation Award
      James Beard Foundation Award
      The James Beard Foundation Awards were established in 1990 and are often called "The Oscars of Food." Held on the first weekend in May, the Awards honor the finest chefs, restaurants, wine professionals, journalists, cookbook authors, restaurant designers, and other food professionals in the...

  • Jim Beard
    Jim Beard
    James Arthur Beard is an American jazz pianist and keyboardist, contemporary instrumental composer, arranger and record producer.- Life and career :...

    , American jazz pianist
  • John Beard (disambiguation), several people
  • Kevin Beard
    Kevin Beard
    Kevin Donald Warren Beard is an American Football player formerly of the University of Miami.-High school years:...

    , American football player
  • Malcolm Beard
    Malcolm Beard
    Malcolm Beard is an English former professional footballer born in Cannock, Staffordshire who made more than 350 appearances in the Football League playing as a wing half. He spent the vast majority of his playing career at Birmingham City, for whom he made 405 appearances in all competitions, and...

    , former English footballer
  • Mark Beard (disambiguation), several people
  • Mary Beard (disambiguation), several people
  • Matthew Beard (disambiguation), several people
  • Nigel Beard
    Nigel Beard
    Christopher Nigel Beard, known as Nigel Beard, is a British politician. He was Labour Party Member of Parliament for Bexleyheath and Crayford in London from 1997 to 2005....

    , British politician
  • Paul Beard
    Paul Beard
    Paul Beard was an author and was the president of the College of Psychic Studies. Beard was based in London, England for sixteen years.The organization was devoted to finding in spiritualism evidence of life after death...

    , British president of the College of Psychic Studies
  • Percy Beard
    Percy Beard
    Percy Morris Beard was an American college and international track and field athlete who specialized in the high hurdles event, and won an Olympic silver medal. Beard later became a nationally prominent college track and field coach at the University of Florida.- Athletic career :Percy Beard was...

    , American track and field athlete
  • Peter Hill Beard
    Peter Hill Beard
    Peter Hill Beard is a photographer, artist, diarist and writer.-Personal life:Peter Beard's photographs of Africa, African animals, and the journals that often integrate his photographs have been widely shown and published since the 1970s...

    , American photographer
  • Philip Beard
    Philip Beard
    Philip Beard is an American novelist.He was educated at Colgate University and the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. He is an attorney who lives in Aspinwall, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh.Beard is married with three kids.-Works:...

    , American novelist
  • Ralph Beard
    Ralph Beard
    Ralph Milton Beard Jr. was an American collegiate and professional basketball player. He was born in Hardinsburg, Kentucky. Beard was a member of Adolph Rupp's "Fabulous Five" University of Kentucky basketball team...

    , former American basketball player
  • Ralph Beard (baseball)
    Ralph Beard (baseball)
    Ralph Beard was an American professional baseball player. In 1954, Beard played with the St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball.-External links:...

    , American Major League Baseball player
  • Richard Beard (photographer), English photographer
  • Robin Beard
    Robin Beard
    Robin Leo Beard, Jr. was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Tennessee who served from 1973 to 1983.-Early life:...

    , U. S. congressman from Tennessee
  • Santonio Beard
    Santonio Beard
    Santonio Beard is a former running back from the University of Alabama. He left just after his junior season in 2002. Beard's most productive season came in 2002 after the exit of Ahmaad Galloway due to injury. Beard rushed for close to 900 yards his junior season. This was achieved despite...

    , American football player
  • Stephanie Beard
    Stephanie Beard
    Stephanie Beard is a Canadian actress, voice actress and television and radio personality. Her radio host persona goes by Suga BayBee, and as co-host of The Zone, she was called Sugar.Beard was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada...

    , Canadian actress
  • Tanoka Beard
    Tanoka Beard
    Tanoka Dwight Beard is a retired American basketball player. Tanoka Beard was a solid big man able to play both the power forward and center positions, he earned an All-Euroleague Second Team selection in 2005, while leading the competition in rebounds with 10.6 per game...

    , American basketball player
  • Trevor Beard
    Trevor Beard
    Dr Trevor Cory Beard, OBE was a British-born Australian medical doctor, best known for his work in the 1960s to eradicate echinococcosis in Tasmania...

    , British-Australian medical doctor
  • William Holbrook Beard
    William Holbrook Beard
    William Holbrook Beard was an American painter.Beard was born in Painesville, Ohio. He studied abroad, and in 1861 moved to New York City, where, in 1862, he became a member of the National Academy of Design. Beard was a prolific artist...

    , American painter

Communities, districts, and landmarks

  • Béard
    Béard
    Béard is a commune in the Nièvre department in central France.-Demographics:At the 1999 census, the population was 174. On 1 January 2004, the estimate was 170.-References:*...

    , a village and commune in the Nièvre département of France
  • Beard, Indiana
    Beard, Indiana
    Beard is an unincorporated town in Warren Township, Clinton County, Indiana....

    , United States
  • The Beard Building
    Beard Building
    The Beard Building is regarded as Toronto's first skyscraper, and was completed in 1894. Designed by E.J. Lennox, It was planned to be a nine-storey, iron-framed structure, but it only reached seven storeys when completed and was a more traditional wood/brick combination.The Beard Building was a...

    , the first skyscraper in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  • Beard Cabin
    Beard Cabin
    The Beard Cabin is a structure listed on the National Register of Historic Places and located in Shawnee, Oklahoma. It is considered to be the first home built in Shawnee. A plaque near the cabin dates it to 1895....

    , a historic site in Shawnee, Oklahoma, United States
  • Bob Beard Elementary School, San Antonio, Texas, United States
  • Charles A. Beard Memorial School Corporation
    Charles A. Beard Memorial School Corporation
    The Charles A. Beard Memorial School Corporation, named after historian Charles A. Beard, is a public school corporation located in southwestern Henry County, Indiana and serving Knightstown and surrounding areas. The district was formed in 1963 through the consolidation of schools in Wayne and...

    , a school district in Indiana, United States
  • Daniel Carter Beard Bridge
    Daniel Carter Beard Bridge
    The Daniel Carter Beard Bridge , is a twin span steel tied arch bridge crossing the Ohio River in Cincinnati, Ohio. It carries Interstate 471 between Cincinnati, Ohio, and Newport, Kentucky. As to the origin of this nickname, its yellow arches are similar to the "Golden Arches" logo of...

    , crossing the Ohio River at Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
  • Beard-Eaves-Memorial Coliseum
    Beard-Eaves-Memorial Coliseum
    Beard–Eaves–Memorial Coliseum is a 10,500-seat multi-purpose arena on the campus of Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama. The arena, which opened in 1969, is best known as the former home of the Auburn men's and women's basketball and women's gymnastics teams...

    , Auburn, Alabama, United States

Other uses

  • "Beard" is a common word for the byssus
    Byssus
    Byssus means both a silky filament by which certain molluscs attach themselves to hard surfaces, and a rare fabric, also called sea silk and its fibre source.-Word:...

     of an edible mussel
    Mussel
    The common name mussel is used for members of several families of clams or bivalvia mollusca, from saltwater and freshwater habitats. These groups have in common a shell whose outline is elongated and asymmetrical compared with other edible clams, which are often more or less rounded or oval.The...

    , a marine bivalve mollusk
  • Beard (companion)
  • "The Beard
    The Beard
    "The Beard" is the 102nd episode of the NBC situation comedy Seinfeld. This was the 16th episode for the 6th season. It aired on February 9, 1995.-Plot:...

    ", a Seinfeld episode
  • The Beard of Avon
    The Beard of Avon
    The Beard of Avon is a play by Amy Freed, originally commissioned and produced by South Coast Repertory in 2001.In the play, Shakspere abandons his wife Anne Hathaway in Stratford-on-Avon after a visit from a touring company of players. He makes his way to London, determined to be an actor, and...

    , a play by Amy Freed
  • Beard v. Banks
    Beard v. Banks
    Beard v. Banks, 548 U.S. 521 , was a case decided by the United States Supreme Court in which the petitioner, Ronald Banks, challenged the constitutionality of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections policy of denying access to written material such as newspapers and magazines, to violent ...

    , a 2006 U.S. Supreme Court case
  • Beard line, the line along the bottom of descenders in typography
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