Steve Bird is an American football special teams coordinator for South Carolina State. He was born on October 20, 1960. Bird played college football for Eastern Kentucky, where he was named to the First-Team All-OVC and won two Division I-AA national championship games in 1979 and 1982.

He was drafted in the fifth round of the 1983 NFL draft by the St. Louis Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL). He also played for the San Diego Chargers, Philadelphia Eagles, and Cincinnati Bengals, as well as for the Edmonton Eskimos and Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League (CFL).

After the end of Bird's playing career, he joined his alma mater as a wide receivers coach. He went on to coach for Kentucky, Tennessee, Pittsburgh, Kent State, Tulane, Middle Tennessee, and West Virginia before returning to Eastern Kentucky for a third time as an offensive assistant. After a stint with Bowling Green and South Florida, he joined South Carolina State in 2013, where he has had the longest tenure of his career as the team's special teams coordinator.