Birdy or Birdie may refer to:

Places in the United States

Birdie, Georgia Birdie is an unincorporated community in Spalding County, in the U.S. state of Georgia Georgia most commonly refers to: * Georgia (country), a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia * Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the Southeast United St ...

, an unincorporated community *

Birdie, Mississippi Birdie is an unincorporated community in Quitman County, Mississippi. Birdie is located on Mississippi Highway 315, northwest of Marks Marks may refer to: Business * Mark's, a Canadian retail chain * Marks & Spencer, a British retail cha ...

, an unincorporated community

People with the name

Birdie Blye Birdice Blye-Richardson (March 24, 1871 - June 23, 1935) better known as Birdie Blye, was an American pianist. At 5 year old she was "an infant prodigy" who was taught by the best teachers in the United States and Europe. At the age of 10, she ...

(1871–1935), American pianist *

Birdy (singer) Jasmine Lucilla Elizabeth Jennifer van den BogaerdeDebrett's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, Kelly's Directories, 2000 pg. 1629 (born 15 May 1996), better known by her stage name Birdy, is an English singer and songwriter. She won the music c ...

(born 1996), the stage name of English singer-songwriter Jasmine van den Bogaerde * Birdy, pseudonym of a former guitarist of the glam punk band

Trashcan Darlings Trashcan Darlings were a band from Oslo. They described themselves as the pioneers of Glamour-Punk and a mix of Ramones, Kiss, Sex Pistols and New York Dolls. Band history The band was founded by Chris Damien Doll and Strange? Gentle in 1995. ...

Henry Robertson Bowers Henry Robertson Bowers (29 July 1883 – c. 29 March 1912) was one of Robert Falcon Scott's polar party on the ill-fated Terra Nova expedition of 1910–1913, all of whom died during their return from the South Pole. Early life Bowers was b ...

(1883–1912), nicknamed "Birdie", participant in Robert Falcon Scott's doomed race to the South Pole *

Byrd Spilman Dewey Byrd "Birdie" Spilman Dewey (née Julia Bird Spilman; February 16, 1856 – April 1, 1942) was an American author, land investor, and co-developer of the Town of Boynton. She lived in Florida from 1881 until her death in 1942. Her best known ...

(1856–1942), nicknamed "Birdie", American author and land investor *

Birdy Sweeney Birdy Sweeney (14 June 1931 – 11 May 1999) was an Irish actor and comedian. Born Edmund Francis Sweeney in Dungannon, County Tyrone, he garnered his nickname "Birdy" from his childhood ability to imitate bird calls which he demonstrated on BB ...

(1931–1999), Irish actor and comedian *

Birdie Tebbetts George Robert "Birdie" Tebbetts (November 10, 1912 – March 24, 1999) was an American professional baseball player, manager, scout and front office executive. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a catcher for the Detroit Tigers, B ...

(1912–1999), American baseball player and manager *

Jack Ward John Ward or Birdy ( 1553 – 1622), also known as Jack Ward or later as Yusuf Reis, was an English- Ottoman pirate who later became a Barbary Corsair for the Ottoman Empire operating out of Tunis during the early 17th century. According ...

( 1553–1622), nicknamed "Birdy", notorious English pirate and Barbary Corsair

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

Birdie (Street Fighter) The main titles of the ''Street Fighter'' fighting game series have introduced a varied cast of 80 ''World Warriors'' from the main series, and 34 from several spin-offs, for a total of 114 playable characters who originated from different countri ...

, in Capcom's video games *

Betty Draper Elizabeth "Betty" Hofstadt Francis (formerly Draper) is a fictional character on AMC's television series ''Mad Men'', wife of Don Draper (Jon Hamm) and mother of his three children. Blonde and beautiful but emotionally distant and immature, she sp ...

, on ''Mad Men'', whom Don Draper affectionately refers to as "Birdie" *

Birdie the Early Bird McDonaldland is a McDonald's media franchise and the fictional fantasy world inhabited by Ronald McDonald and his friends. Starting with the creation of Ronald McDonald in 1963 it is primarily developed and published by McDonald's, initial att ...

, the first identifiably female McDonaldland character * Birdy (comics), a Marvel Comics villain * Birdy, in the Conker platform video game series * Birdy, also known as Torii, a robotic pet in ''

Gundam SEED is an anime series developed by Sunrise and directed by Mitsuo Fukuda. The ninth installment in the ''Gundam'' franchise, ''Gundam SEED'' takes place in a future calendar era, in this case the Cosmic Era. In this era, mankind has devel ...

'' and ''

Gundam SEED Destiny is an anime television series, a direct sequel to ''Mobile Suit Gundam SEED'' by Sunrise and the overall tenth installment in the ''Gundam'' franchise. It retains most of the staff from ''Gundam SEED'', including Director Mitsuo Fukuda. Se ...

'' * Birdy, the title character of ''

Birdy the Mighty is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masami Yuki. His initial attempt with the story ran in Shogakukan's ''Shōnen Sunday Zōkan'' from 1985 to 1988, but it was eventually abandoned. Over a decade later, Yuki began a rebo ...

'', a Japanese manga series * Wang Po-Te in ''

Your Name Engraved Herein ''Your Name Engraved Herein'' () is a 2020 Taiwanese romantic drama directed by Patrick Kuang-Hui Liu and starring Edward Chen, Jing-Hua Tseng and Leon Dai. The film premiered in Taiwan on September 30, followed by a global release on Netflix o ...

'' goes by the name Birdy, named after the character in the movie of the same name

Music

* ''Birdy'' (Birdy album) (2011) * ''Birdy'' (Peter Gabriel album), 1985 soundtrack of the film ''Birdy'' * ''Birdy'', an album by

Bloodthirsty Butchers Bloodthirsty Butchers was a long-running indie rock and punk rock band from Sapporo, Hokkaidō, Japan. Although little-known in the West, they have contributed to two compilations on the Olympia, Washington based Yoyo label. The band has also rel ...

* "Birdie", a song by Avril Lavigne from the album '' Head Above Water'' * "Birdy", a song by British Sea Power from the single "

Remember Me Remember Me may refer to: Film and television Film * Remember Me (1979 film), ''Remember Me'' (1979 film), an American documentary short by Dick Young * Remember Me (1985 film), ''Remember Me'' (1985 film), an Australian TV movie * Remember Me? (f ...

Other

* ''Birdie'' (novel), by Tracey Lindberg * ''Birdy'' (novel), by William Wharton * ''Birdie'' (film), starring Maeve Dermody and Sam Parsonson, and directed by Shelly Lauman * ''Birdy'' (film), starring Matthew Modine and Nicolas Cage, and directed by Alan Parker, based on Wharton's novel *

Birdie (given name) Birdie is a given name used in reference to an informal English diminutive word for a bird. Spelling variants include Birdee, Birdy, and Byrdie. It has been in use since at least the 1800s in the United States both as a nickname for various formal ...

Brands and enterprises

Birdy (bicycle) The Birdy is a folding bicycle designed by Riese und Müller in Germany and produced by Pacific Cycles in Taiwan. As of 2010 over 100,000 had been sold. Three distinct models have been marketed, in addition to some specialist variations, with the t ...

, a folding bicycle *

Birdy Airlines Birdy Airlines was an airline based in Belgium that offered long-haul flights from Brussels to Africa on behalf of SN Brussels Airlines using a fleet of three Airbus A330-300 The Airbus A330 is a wide-body aircraft developed and produced ...

(2002–2004), an airline based in Belgium

Sports

Birdie (golf) In golf, par is the predetermined number of strokes that a proficient (scratch, or zero handicap) golfer should require to complete a hole, a round (the sum of the pars of the played holes), or a tournament (the sum of the pars of each round). ...

, a score of one under par on a hole in golf * A

gun dog Gun dogs, or bird dogs, are types of hunting dogs developed to assist hunters in finding and retrieving game, usually quail, dove, or duck. Gun dogs are divided into three primary types: retrievers, flushing dogs, and pointing breeds. Types ...

that gets excited by birds *

Shuttlecock A shuttlecock (also called a birdie or shuttle) is a high-drag projectile used in the sport of badminton. It has an open conical shape formed by feathers or plastic (or a synthetic alternative) embedded into a rounded cork (or rubber) base. T ...

, in badminton

Other uses

* Birdie, the common nickname for a small

parabolic aluminized reflector light A parabolic aluminized reflector lamp (PAR lamp or simply PAR) is a type of electric lamp that is widely used in commercial, residential, and transportation illumination. It produces a highly directional beam. Usage includes theatrical lightin ...

* Birdy, unwanted artifacts that occur in

noise reduction Noise reduction is the process of removing noise from a signal. Noise reduction techniques exist for audio and images. Noise reduction algorithms may distort the signal to some degree. Noise rejection is the ability of a circuit to isolate an und ...

or in "frequency mixing". * BIRDIE,

Martin AN/GSG-5 Battery Integration and Radar Display Equipment The Martin AN/GSG-5 Battery Integration and Radar DIsplay Equipment (BIRDIE) was a transportable electronic fire distribution center for automated command and control of remote surface-to-air missile launch batteries. The solid state radar netting ...