Pickard
Appearance
Pronunciation | PICK-ard |
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Language(s) | French |
Origin | |
Meaning | person from Picardy |
Region of origin | France |
Other names | |
Related names | Picard, Piccard |
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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
- Charles Pickard (1874-1954), Royal Air Force
- Cyril Stanley Pickard KCMG (1917-1992), diplomat
- Greenleaf Whittier Pickard (1877-1956), radio pioneer
- James Pickard, an English inventor
- Jerry Pickard, former representative in the Canadian House of Commons
- John Pickard (politician), former representative in the Canadian House of Commons
- Group Captain Percy Charles Pickard (1915-1944), 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, a man convicted on charges relating to the manufacturing of LSD
- Kenneth Pickard (1987-), President of The Alpha Gamma Pi Fraternity
See also
- Piccardo
- Picard
- Piccard
- Pickard, Indiana, a small town in the United States
- Thornton-Pickard, a former British manufacturer of photographic cameras