Bird or The Bird is a nickname for: Bird Averitt, American National Basketball Association and American Basketball Association player Charlie Parker, American jazz musician Ian Eagle, American sportscaster Lady Bird Johnson, wife of US President Lyndon B. Johnson Mark Fidrych, American baseball pitcher Mutsuhiro Watanabe, Japanese World War II sergeant and war criminal George Yardley, American basketball player Kathleen York, American singer, songwriter and actress Claudio Cangia, Argentinian football player.