Picard

Picard

Picard may refer to

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

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

ee 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
* Les Fatals Picards, a French band
* Captain Picard, Captain of the USS Enterprise-D/E in the TV show Star Trek.

ee also

* Piccard
* Pickard


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  • Picard — steht für: Berger de Picardie, aus der Picardie (Nordfrankreich) stammende Hunderasse Johann Hermann Picard, 1857 gegründeter Werkzeughersteller in Wuppertal MusicBrainz Picard, Programm zum automatisierten Ausfüllen von Metadaten zu Musikdateien …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • picard — picard, arde [ pikar, ard ] adj. et n. • 1295; de Picardie, nom d une région du nord de la France ♦ De Picardie. Les plages picardes. ♢ N. Les Picards. N. m. Dialecte de langue d oïl de la Picardie. Le normand et le picard. ● picard nom masculin… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Picard — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda Picard, como apellido puede referirse a alguno de estos personajes: El matemático francés del siglo XIX Charles Émile Picard, autor de varios teoremas que llevan su nombre; El astrónomo y sacerdote francés Jean… …   Wikipedia Español

  • Picard — Picard, Captain Jean Luc the main character in the television programme Star Trek: The Next Generation. Picard is a Frenchman played by the British actor Patrick Stewart. Picard is clever and brave and in charge of the Starship Enterprise. Star… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • Picard — Pic ard, n. (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect of Adamites in the fifteenth century; so called from one Picard of Flanders. See {Adamite}. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • picard — picard, arde (entrée créée par le supplément) (pi kar, kar d ) adj. Qui appartient à la Picardie, ancienne province de France. Nous avons beaucoup de textes en dialecte picard ; aujourd hui ce dialecte est un patois considérable …   Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré

  • picard — PICÁRD, Ă adj., s. m. f. (locuitor) din Picardia. ♢ (s. n.) dialect vorbit în Picardia. (< fr. picard) Trimis de raduborza, 15.09.2007. Sursa: MDN …   Dicționar Român

  • Picard — (spr. Pikahr), 1) Richard, Stifter der Adamiten, s.d. 2). 2) Jean, geb. in Fleche; Astronom, war Prior zu Rilli in Anjou u. wurde 1671 vom König zu Tycho de Brahe gesendet, von welchem er Handschriften über astronomische Beobachtungen nach… …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • Picard — (spr. kár), 1) Louis Benoît, franz. Lustspieldichter, geb. 29. Juli 1769 in Paris, gest. daselbst 31. Dez. 1828, machte sich einen Namen erst 1797 durch das Lustspiel »Médiocre et rampant« (neue Ausg., Halle 1888; von Schiller bearbeitet u. d. T …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • Picard — (spr. kahr), Louis Benoit, franz. Lustspieldichter, geb. 29. Juli 1769 zu Paris, 1807 16 Direktor der Großen Oper das., gest. 31. Dez. 1828; schrieb: »Encore des ménechmes« (1791), »Médiocre et rampant« (1797), beide von Schiller übersetzt: »Der… …   Kleines Konversations-Lexikon

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