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Picard

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There are several Picards:

Charles Emile Picard (1856 - 1941) was a French mathematician.

Auguste Piccard (1884 - 1962) was a Swiss inventor.

Jean-Luc Picard is the fictional captain of the Starship Enterprise in the TV series

The Picard language is a French dialect.

Picardie is an administrative region of France. This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page.