Pickard

Pickard

Pronunciation	PICK-ard
Language(s)	French
Origin
Meaning	person from Picardy
Region of origin	France
Other names
Variant form(s)	Picard, Piccard, Piccardo
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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.

Notable people with the surname include:

• Al Pickard (1895–1975), Canadian ice hockey administrator and president of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association
• Bob Pickard (American football) (born 1952), American football player
• Calvin Pickard (born 1992), Canadian ice hockey player
• Charles Pickard (1915–1944), Royal Air Force officer
• Chet Pickard (born 1989), American hockey player
• Cyril Stanley Pickard (1917–1992), British diplomat
• Felicity Pickard (born 1994), British para table tennis player
• Greenleaf Whittier Pickard (1877–1956), American radio pioneer
• Hannah Maynard Pickard (1812–1844), American school teacher, preceptress, author
• James Pickard, English inventor
• Jan Pickard (1927–1998), South African rugby player
• Jerry Pickard (1940–2021), Canadian politician
• John Pickard (American actor) (1913–1993), American actor
• John Pickard (composer) (born 1963), British composer
• John Pickard (British actor) (born 1977), British actor
• John Pickard (politician) (1824–1883), Canadian politician
• Judy Pickard (1921–2016), New Zealand abstract painter, librarian and advocate for women's rights
• Keith Pickard (born 1962), American politician
• Louise Pickard (1865–1928), British artist
• Neil Pickard (1929–2007), Australian politician
• Group Captain Percy Charles Pickard (1915–1944), Royal Air Force officer
• Thomas J. Pickard (born 1950), director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
• Tom Pickard (born 1946), British poet
• Tony Pickard (born 1934), English tennis coach
• Troy Pickard (1973–2022), Australian local government politician and businessman
• William Leonard Pickard (born 1945), American convicted for manufacturing LSD

See also

• Pickard, Indiana, a small town in the United States
• Pickard-Cambridge, a surname
• Thornton-Pickard, a former British manufacturer of photographic cameras
• Pickard China, American china company
• Picard (disambiguation)
• Piccard
• Piccardo

References

1. 1990 Census Name Files Archived 2010-10-07 at the Library of Congress Web Archives