Picard (name)
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Picard is a surname
meaning a person from Picardy
, a historical region and cultural area of France.
Surname
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meaning a person from Picardy
Picardy
This article is about the historical French province. For other uses, see Picardy .Picardy is a historical province of France, in the north of France...
, a historical region and cultural area of France.
People with the surname Picard
- Alexandre R. PicardAlexandre R. PicardAlexandre R. Picard is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who currently plays for the Pittsburgh Penguins organization.-Playing career:...
(1985-), French Canadian professional ice hockey defenseman - Alexandre Picard (ice hockey)Alexandre Picard (ice hockey)Alexandre Picard is a Canadian professional ice hockey winger currently playing for the Tampa Bay Lightning of the National Hockey League.-Playing career:...
(1985-), French Canadian professional ice hockey wing - Alfred Christopher PicardAlfred Christopher PicardAlfred Christopher Picard was a New Zealand politician. He represented the Motueka and Massacre Bay electorate in the 1st New Zealand Parliament, but did not serve in any subsequent Parliaments....
, New Zealand politician - Andrew Comrie-PicardAndrew Comrie-PicardAndrew Comrie-Picard is an X Games athlete, professional race car driver, stunt driver, automotive journalist, and TV personality. He left a career as a New York City entertainment lawyer to pursue his passion for racing...
(1971-), Canadian race car driver and actor - Catherine PicardCatherine PicardCatherine Picard is a French politician from the French Socialist Party. She was earlier a member of the French National Assembly.-Career:...
(1952-), French politician - Charles Émile PicardCharles Émile PicardCharles Émile Picard FRS was a French mathematician. He was elected the fifteenth member to occupy seat 1 of the Académie Française in 1924.- Biography :...
(1856-1941), French mathematician - Ernest PicardErnest PicardLouis Joseph Ernest Picard was a French politician.He was born in Paris. After taking his doctorate in law in 1846 he joined the Parisian bar. Elected to the corps législatif in 1858, he became a follower of Émile Ollivier...
(1821-1877), French politician - François PicardFrançois PicardFrançois Picard was a racing driver from France. He participated in one Formula One Grand Prix, on 19 October 1958. He scored no championship points. This race was his last, as he crashed his Cooper into Olivier Gendebien's Ferrari, which had spun in front of him, and Picard suffered serious...
(1921-1996), French Formula One driver - Henry PicardHenry PicardHenry Gilford Picard was an American professional golfer.Picard was born in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and learned to play golf while caddying at the Plymouth Country Club. Picard, already a talented player by his early 20s, came to prominence after coaching from the leading instructor Alex Morrison...
(1906-1997), American golfer - Jean PicardJean Picard (bookbinder)Jean Picard was a French bookbinder and bookseller. He was active in the 1540s.He is best-known for having bound many books for the bibliophile Jean Grolier...
, French bookbinder (active to 1547) commissioned by patrons such as Jean Grolier - Jean PicardJean PicardJean-Felix Picard was a French astronomer and priest born in La Flèche, where he studied at the Jesuit Collège Royal Henry-Le-Grand. He was the first person to measure the size of the Earth to a reasonable degree of accuracy in a survey conducted in 1669–70, for which he is honored with a...
(1620-1682), French astronomer - Laurent PicardLaurent PicardLaurent A. Picard, CC is a French-Canadian businessman and former President of the CBC, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.Born in Quebec City, Quebec, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree as well as a Bachelor of Philosophy degree in 1947 from Université Laval...
(1927-), French Canadian businessman - Liza PicardLiza PicardLiza Picard is an English historian specialising in the history of London.After reading law at the London School of Economics she was called to the bar by Gray's Inn when she was 21. She did not practice as a barrister, although she did write a book called Questions and Answers on Private...
(1927-), English historian - Louis-Benoît PicardLouis-Benoît PicardLouis-Benoît Picard was a French playwrightAfter having begun to study law, he first became an actor before producing his first play, Le Badinage dangereux, in 1789....
(1769–1828), French playwright - Luc PicardLuc PicardLuc Picard is a French Canadian actor and comedian. He was born on September 24, 1961 in Lachine, Quebec, Canada. He has played numerous characters in diverse roles....
(1961-), French Canadian actor and comedian - Marc PicardMarc PicardMarc Picard is a politician in the province of Quebec, Canada. He currently represents the Chutes-de-la-Chaudière district at the National Assembly of Quebec as an independent....
(1955-), Canadian politician - Michel PicardMichel PicardMichel Picard is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. Picard played in the National Hockey League with the Hartford Whalers, San Jose Sharks, Ottawa Senators, St...
(1969-), French Canadian professional ice hockey wing - Pauline PicardPauline PicardPauline Picard was a Quebec politician. She was the Bloc Québécois Member of Parliament for the riding of Drummond from 1993 to 2008....
(1947-), French Canadian politician - Robert G. PicardRobert G. PicardRobert G. Picard is an American writer and scholar.One of the leading academic experts on media businesses and considered the father of the media economics studies...
(1951-), American writer and scholar - Robert PicardRobert PicardRobert Rene Joseph Picard is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player.-Career:Robert Picard established himself as a highly regarded defensive prospect with the Montreal Juniors and Montreal Bleu Blanc Rouge from 1973 to 1977...
(1957-), French Canadian professional ice hockey defenseman - Rosalind PicardRosalind PicardRosalind W. Picard is Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT, director of the Affective Computing Research Group at the MIT Media Lab, and co-director of the Things That Think Consortium...
(1962-), American electrical engineer and professor
Fictional characters
- Jean-Luc PicardJean-Luc PicardCaptain Jean-Luc Picard is a Star Trek character portrayed by Patrick Stewart. He appears in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation and the feature films Star Trek Generations, Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Insurrection, and Star Trek Nemesis...
, fictional French captain in the Star Trek: The Next Generation TV series and films, portrayed by Sir Patrick Stewart