Bastard

Bastard may refer to:

• A child whose birth lacks legal legitimacy—that is, one born to a woman and a man who are not legally married
• Bastard (Law of England and Wales), illegitimacy in English law
• Bastard (typeface), a blackletter typeface
• Bastard (color), a type of color gel
• Bastard Township, Ontario, Canada
• Bastarda or Bastard, a Gothic script
• Bastard, a classification of the teeth of a metalworking file
• Bastard, historically, a second-rate wine, distinguished from sack
• Bastard sword, a type of longsword

Film

• Bastard (film), a 1940 Swedish-Norwegian film
• The Bastard (film), a 1963 Japanese youth film
• Bastard‼: Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy, a manga and anime series

Literature

• The Bastard (novel), a novel by John Jakes
• Bastard‼, a manga by Kazushi Hagiwara
• "Bastard", a short story by Erskine Caldwell

Music

• Bastard (album), an album by Tyler, The Creator
  • "Bastard" (Tyler, The Creator song), the title track
• Bästard, an album by Yann Tiersen and Bästard
• Bastard, an album by Subway to Sally
• "Bastard" (song), a song by Mötley Crüe
• "Bastard", a song by Ben Folds from Songs for Silverman
• "Bastard", a song by Dope from American Apathy
• "Bastard", a song by Ian Hunter from You're Never Alone with a Schizophrenic
• "Bastard", a song by Oomph! from Unrein

Fictional characters

• Fat Bastard (character), a fictional character from the Austin Powers films
• Spoilt Bastard, a fictional comic character from the magazine Viz
• Ywain the Bastard, a Knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend
• Action Bastard, a fictional superhero in the anime series Crayon Shin-chan
• Alan and Sara B'Stard, fictional characters in the BBC TV sitcom The New Statesman
• Harry the Bastard, a fictional character from the television series The Young Ones
• Yellow Bastard, Roark Junior, a fictional character from the comics series Sin City

As an epithet

• Antoine, bastard of Burgundy (1421-1504), half-brother of Charles the Bold
• Geoffrey, the Bastard, Geoffrey, Archbishop of York (c1152–1212), illegitimate son of Henry II, King of England
• Bastard of Arran, Sir James Hamilton of Finnart (1495-1540), Scottish nobleman and architect
• Bastard of Fauconberg, Thomas Neville (?-1471), a Lancastrian leader in the War of the Roses
• Bastard of Orleans, Jean de Dunois (1402-1468), the illegitimate son of Louis d'Orléans
• William the Bastard, William I of England (1028–1087), William the Conqueror

As a pseudonym

• Ol' Dirty Bastard, American rapper
• MC Basstard, German rapper who recorded the album Dogma (Gegen die Zeit) with the rapper Taktloss
• Little Bastard, a ring name of professional wrestler Dylan Postl

People with the family name

• Bastard brothers John (c. 1668–1770) and William (c. 1689–1766), British surveyor-architects and civic dignitaries
• Benjamin Bastard (died 1772), British architect
• E. W. Bastard (1862–1901), Oxford University and Somerset cricketer
• Edmund Pollexfen Bastard (1784–1838), British Tory politician
• Gerald Bastard (born 1950), French physicist
• John Bastard (cricketer) (1817–1848), Cambridge University and Marylebone Cricket Club cricketer
• John Bastard (Royal Navy officer) (c.1787-1835), Royal Navy officer and politician
• John Pollexfen Bastard (1756–1816), British Tory politician
• Segar Bastard (1854-1921), English international footballer and referee
• Thomas Bastard (1565/6-1618), English epigrammatist
• Pownoll Bastard Pellew, 2nd Viscount Exmouth (1786-1833), English peer and sailor

See also

• Bastard studies, race mixing, especially in Germany
• Bastards (disambiguation)
• Bastardo (disambiguation)
• Bastardisation (disambiguation)
• Baster (from the Dutch word for bastard), a descendant of liaisons between the Cape Colony Dutch and indigenous Africans
• Bastardista, album of Brazilian singer Célia Mara
• "Bâtard", a short story by Jack London
• Inglourious Basterds a war epic/spaghetti-western by Quentin Tarantino
• All pages beginning with "Bastard"
• All pages with titles containing "Bastard"