John Anthony Bird, Baron Bird, MBE is a British social entrepreneur and life peer in the House of Lords. He is best known as the co-founder of The Big Issue, a magazine sold by street vendors who are homeless or vulnerably-housed.

Bird was born in 1946 in a Notting Hill slum to a poor London Irish family. He became homeless at age of five, spent time in an orphanage, in young offenders institutions and prison during his youth.

In 1991, Bird launched The Big Issue with Gordon Roddick, co-founder of The Body Shop.

Bird was nominated for life peerage in October 2015 to become a non-party-political "people's peer", sitting as a crossbencher.

His work focuses on dismantling the root causes of poverty in the UK, with an emphasis on the well-being of future generations, early intervention and prevention.