| Pronunciation | PICK-ard |
|---|---|
| Language(s) | French |
| Origin | |
| Meaning | person from Picardy |
| Region of origin | France |
| Other names | |
| Variant form(s) | Picard, Piccard, Piccardo |
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
- 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
- 1990 Census Name Files Archived 2010-10-07 at the Library of Congress Web Archives
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