Picard
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Picard may refer to:
People called Picard
- a native of, or anything originating in, PicardyPicardyThis article is about the historical French province. For other uses, see Picardy .Picardy is a historical province of France, in the north of France...
- the Picard languagePicard languagePicard is a language closely related to French, and as such is one of the larger group of Romance languages. It is spoken in two regions in the far north of France – Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardy – and in parts of the Belgian region of Wallonia, the district of Tournai and a part of...
, a Langue d'oïl and one of the languages of France - A member of the PicardsPicardsThe Picards were a sect of Neo-Adamites in the sixteenth century and earlier, in the Flemish Netherlands and in Bohemia.-Origins:The origin of their name is not clearly known. They are said to have been named after their founder, "one Picard of Flanders"; but "Picards" is also explained as a...
, a religious sect in the fifteenth century - Berger Picard, French breed of dog of the herding group of breeds
- an alternative name for the wine grape MerilleMerilleMerille is a red French wine grape variety that is grown primarily in the Garonne of South West France. It is a common grape in table wine....
- Picard (satellite), an orbiting solar observatory built by CNES
- Picard, formerly TSS Duke of CumberlandTSS Duke of CumberlandTSS Duke of Cumberland was a passenger vessel operated by the London and North Western Railway and the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway from 1909 to 1923. and also as Picard by Angleterre-Lorraine-Alsace from 1927 to 1936.-History:...
, a steamship which operated between Tilbury and Dunkirk from 1927 to 1936
People called Picard
- Picard (name)Picard (name)Picard is a surname meaning a person from Picardy, a historical region and cultural area of France.-People with the surname Picard:* Alexandre R...
, a French surname
- (includes a list of people with this name)
- Charles Émile PicardCharles Émile PicardCharles Émile Picard FRS was a French mathematician. He was elected the fifteenth member to occupy seat 1 of the Académie Française in 1924.- Biography :...
, influential French mathematical analyst - Jean-Luc PicardJean-Luc PicardCaptain Jean-Luc Picard is a Star Trek character portrayed by Patrick Stewart. He appears in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation and the feature films Star Trek Generations, Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Insurrection, and Star Trek Nemesis...
, fictional captain in Star Trek: The Next GenerationStar Trek: The Next GenerationStar Trek: The Next Generation is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry as part of the Star Trek franchise. Roddenberry, Rick Berman, and Michael Piller served as executive producers at different times throughout the production...
See also
- PiccardPiccard-Notable people with this name:Members of the Swiss-American Piccard family:* Auguste Piccard , physicist, balloonist, hydronaut* Bertrand Piccard , psychiatrist, balloonist* Jacques Piccard , hydronaut...
, surname - PiccardoPiccardoPiccardo is an Italian surname, a version of Picard, meaning a person from Picardy, a historical region and cultural area of France. It is found primarily in Liguria, in Tuscany and Campania .- Piccardo family :...
, surname - Pickard (disambiguation)
- Picard group, a mathematical object describing the self-isomorphisms of a ringed space
- MusicBrainz PicardMusicBrainz PicardMusicBrainz Picard is a cross-platform MusicBrainz tag editor written in Python. Picard replaced an earlier "Classic" tagger is intended to be the next generation of tagger for MusicBrainz, with a focus on album-oriented tagging and cross platform compatibility.Since version 0.7.0, MusicBrainz...
, a cross platform tagger for MusicBrainz database - The Picard Topology, or Picard hornPicard hornA Picard horn, also called the Picard topology or Picard model, is a theoretical model for theshape of the Universe. It is a horn topology, meaning it has hyperbolic geometry ....
, a cone shaped formation that represents the 'shape' of the universe according to the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe - Les Fatals PicardsLes Fatals PicardsLes Fatals Picards is a French rock/punk band, founded in 1996.The Fatals Picards are best known to general audiences because they represented France in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 with the song L'amour à la française , after winning the national selection.Their name means "the fatal [men]...
, a French band