Picard

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See also: Piccard and Pickard

Picard may refer to

• the Picard language, a Langue d'oïl and one of the languages of France

[edit] People known as Picard

Picard, meaning a person from Picardy, a historical region and cultural area of France, is a surname, and may refer to:

• Alexandre R. Picard (1985-), French Canadian professional ice hockey defenseman
• Alexandre Picard (ice hockey) (1985-), French Canadian professional ice hockey wing
• Alfred Christopher Picard, New Zealand politician
• Catherine Picard (1952-), French politician
• Charles Émile Picard (1856-1941), French mathematician
• Ernest Picard (1821-1877), French politician
• François Picard (1921-1996), French Formula One driver
• Henry Picard (1906-1997), American golfer
• Jean Picard (1620-1682), French astronomer
• Jean-Luc Picard, fictional character in the TV series Star Trek: The Next Generation and its associated films, portrayed by Patrick Stewart
• Laurent Picard (1927-), French Canadian former President of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
• Liza Picard (1927-), English historian
• Luc Picard (1961-), French Canadian actor and comedian
• Marc Picard (1955-), Canadian politician
• Michel Picard (1969-), French Canadian professional ice hockey wing
• Pauline Picard (1947-), French Canadian politician
• Robert G. Picard (1951-), American writer and scholar
• Robert Picard (1957-), French Canadian professional ice hockey defenseman
• Rosalind Picard, electric engineer, founder and director of the Affective Computing Research Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

[edit] See also

• Picard group, a mathematical object describing the self-isomorphisms of a ringed space
• Berger Picard, French breed of dog of the herding group of breeds
• A person from Picardie, a modern region of France and an old province of France of the same name
• A member of the Picards, a religious sect in the fifteenth century
• MusicBrainz Picard, a cross platform tagger for MusicBrainz database
• The Picard Topology, or Picard horn, a cone shaped formation that represents the 'shape' of the universe according to the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe
• Picard, an alternative name for the wine grape Merille
• The PICARD (spacecraft) mission, an orbiting solar observatory built by CNES
• The Picard Gif referring to a small gif image of Star Trek Captain Jean-Luc Picard rubbing his forehead in weariness used widely in internet forums to mock another poster's comment.