Pickard
| Pickard | |
|---|---|
| Family name | |
| Pronunciation | PICK-ard |
| Meaning | person from Picardy |
| Region of origin | France |
| Language(s) of origin | French |
| Related names | Picard, Piccard, Piccardo |
| Footnotes: [1] | |
Pickard is a surname, an Anglicised version of Picard, originally meaning a person from Picardy, a historical region and cultural area of France.
People with the surname Pickard
- Allan Pickard (1895-1975), former president of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association
- Calvin Pickard (born 1992), Canadian ice hockey player
- Charles Pickard (1915 - 1944), Royal Air Force
- Chet Pickard, hockey prospect for Nashville Predators
- Cyril Stanley Pickard KCMG (1917-1992), diplomat
- Greenleaf Whittier Pickard (1877-1956), radio pioneer
- James Pickard, an English inventor
- Jan Pickard, (1927–1998), South African rugby union player
- Jerry Pickard, former representative in the Canadian House of Commons
- John M. Pickard (1913-1993), American actor, who performed mostly in westerns
- John Pickard (composer) (born 1963), British composer of classical music
- John Pickard (British actor) (born 1977), British actor
- John Pickard (politician), former representative in the Canadian House of Commons
- Group Captain Percy Charles Pickard (1915-1944), Royal Air Force officer
- Flight Lieutenant Stanley Gilbert Pickard (active 1940s), Royal Air Force officer
- Thomas J. Pickard, former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Tom Pickard, British poet
- Tony Pickard, English tennis coach
- William Leonard Pickard (b. 1945), an American man convicted on charges relating to the manufacturing of LSD
- Christopher Pickard, (1496) Sheriff of Nottingham
See also
- Picard (disambiguation)
- Piccard
- Piccardo
- Pickard, Indiana, a small town in the United States
- Pickard-Cambridge
- Thornton-Pickard, a former British manufacturer of photographic cameras
- Pickard China, a china company
References
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