Achard
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Achard is a surname
Surname
A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...

, and may refer to:
  • Achard of St. Victor
    Achard of St. Victor
    Achard of St. Victor was a canon regular, abbot of St. Victor's, Paris, and bishop of Avranches.By some authorities he is said to have been of English extraction, by others to be of the noble Norman family of de Pertins, of Domfront. He completed his studies at the School of St. Victor, and...

     (died 1172), French bishop
  • Albert Achard
    Albert Achard
    Albert Achard was a World War I flying ace. Born in Briançon in France, Achard scored 1 victory as an observer and 4 victories as a pilot before being wounded in action on July 24, 1918.-References:...

     (1894-1972), French World War I flying ace
  • Antoine Achard
    Antoine Achard
    Antoine Achard was a Swiss Protestant minister born in Geneva. He settled in Berlin in 1724 where he received the title of privy counsellor and was admitted into the Royal Academy of Berlin in 1743. He died in 1772....

     (1696-1772), Swiss Protestant minister
  • Count Achard of Lecce, Norman count of Lecce
  • Emile Achard
    Emile Achard
    Emile Achard, full name Emile Charles Achard was a French internist born in Paris. In 1893 he became médecin des hôpitaux, and later a professor of general pathology and therapeutics. In 1910 he was appointed professor of internal medicine at the University of Paris...

     (1860-1944), French physician
  • Franz Karl Achard
    Franz Karl Achard
    Franz Karl Achard was a German chemist, physicist and biologist. His principal discovery was the production of sugar from sugar beets.- Life and work :...

     (1753-1821), Prussian chemist
  • Jean-Louis Achard, Minister of Supply in Vichy France
  • Louis Amédée Achard
    Louis Amédée Achard
    Louis Amédée Eugène Achard was a prolific French novelist.After a short stay near Algiers, where he supervised a farm, he went to Toulouse, and then Marseille, where he became a journalist and wrote for the Sémaphore.He moved to Paris, where he wrote for the Vert-Vert, the Entracte, the Charivari,...

     (1814-1876), French novelist.
  • Marcel Achard
    Marcel Achard
    Marcel Achard was a French playwright and screenwriter whose popular sentimental comedies maintained his position as a highly-recognizable name in his country's theatrical and literary circles for five decades...

    (1899-1974), French playwright
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