A pilchard, or sardine, is a small, oily fish related to the herring family, Clupeidae
Pilchard may also refer to: European pilchard, Sardina pilchardus, true sardine
HMS Pilchard, a Royal Navy Ballahoo-class schooner Pilchard the Cat, a paradoxically-named character in the Bob the Builder television series South American pilchard, Sardinops sagax, Pacific sardine, California sardine, Chilean sardine, South African sardine Yellow-eye mullet, Aldrichetta forsteri
Persons with the surname Pilchard The Venerable Thomas Pilchard (1557–1587), an English Roman Catholic priest and martyr.
See also Pilcher Sardine (disambiguation)