Bardeen is a surname that is primarily found in the United States. Notable people with the surname include:
Charles Russell Bardeen (1871–1935), American anatomist, first dean of the medical school of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Charles V. Bardeen (1850–1903), American jurist Charles William Bardeen (1847–1924), American educator George Bardeen (1850–1924), American businessman and politician from Michigan James M. Bardeen (1939–2022), American physicist John Bardeen (1908–1991), American physicist and electrical engineer; co-inventor of the transistor; twice Nobel Prize winner William A. Bardeen (1941–2025), American theoretical physicist, son of John Bardeen