List of Famous people with last name Piccard

Bertrand Piccard

First Name Bertrand
Last Name Piccard
Born on March 1, 1958 (age 66)

Bertrand Piccard FRSGS is a Swiss psychiatrist and balloonist. Along with Brian Jones, he was the first to complete a non-stop balloon flight around the globe, in a balloon named Breitling Orbiter 3. He was the initiator, chairman, and co-pilot, with André Borschberg, of Solar Impulse, the first successful round-the-world solar-powered flight.

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Jacques Piccard

First Name Jacques
Last Name Piccard
Born on July 28, 1922
Died on November 1, 2008 (aged 86)

Jacques Piccard was a Swiss oceanographer and engineer, known for having developed underwater submarines for studying ocean currents. In the Challenger Deep, he and Lt. Don Walsh of the United States Navy were the first people to explore the deepest known part of the world's ocean, and the deepest known location on the surface of Earth's crust, the Mariana Trench, located in the western North Pacific Ocean.

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Auguste Piccard

Auguste Antoine Piccard
First Name Auguste
Born on January 28, 1884
Died on March 24, 1962 (aged 78)

Auguste Antoine Piccard was a Swiss physicist, inventor and explorer, known for his record-breaking helium-filled balloon flights, with which he studied the Earth's upper atmosphere. Auguste was also known for his invention of the first bathyscaphe, FNRS-2, with which he made a number of unmanned dives in 1948 to explore the ocean's depths.

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Ian Piccard

First Name Ian
Last Name Piccard
Born on March 11, 1968 (age 56)
Height 174 cm | 5'9

Ian Piccard is a French former alpine skier who competed in the 1994 Winter Olympics and 1998 Winter Olympics.

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Ted Piccard

First Name Ted
Born on November 30, 1978 (age 45)

Ted Piccard is a French freestyle skier, specializing in ski cross and a former alpine skier.

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Leila Piccard

First Name Leila
Born on January 11, 1971 (age 53)
Height 165 cm | 5'5

Leila Piccard is a French former alpine skier who competed in the 1994 Winter Olympics and 1998 Winter Olympics. She took a bronze medal in the giant slalom in the 1997 Alpine Skiing World Championships and scored one World Cup win, in a parallel slalom event in Tignes in October 1997.

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Franck Piccard

First Name Franck
Last Name Piccard
Born on September 17, 1965 (age 59)
Height 182 cm | 6'0

Franck Piccard is a French former Alpine skier. A native of Les Saisies, Piccard won a total of four Alpine skiing World Cup races. At the 1988 Olympics in Calgary he won a gold medal in the Super-G competition and a bronze medal in the downhill. At the 1992 Olympics in Albertville he won a silver medal in the downhill. He also could achieve a bronze-medal in the Super-G-Race at the FIS Alpine Skiing World Championships 1991.

First excellent success was winning a gold-medal in the downhill race in the FIS Alpine Skiing Junior World Championships 1982 at Auron. First "World Cup Points", he could catch on December 10th, 1983, placed 4th in the Super-G at Val-d’Isère, first win was in the Super-G on March 23rd, 1988, at Beaver Creek. At the begin of his skiing career he did prefer starting in Downhill and Super-G races, later he changed to the Giant Slalom. Last World Cup race was on February 10th, 1996, in the Giant Slalom at Hinterstoder; he was placed 27th. Afterwards, he did start in so-called FIS-races and in the French Championships, until the year 2000. He could achieve a three-times French Champion.
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Jean Piccard

First Name Jean
Last Name Piccard
Born on January 28, 1884
Died on January 28, 1963 (aged 79)

Jean Felix Piccard, also known as Jean Piccard, was a Swiss-born American chemist, engineer, professor and high-altitude balloonist. He invented clustered high-altitude balloons, and with his wife Jeannette, the plastic balloon. Piccard's inventions and co-inventions are used in balloon flight, aircraft and spacecraft.

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Jeff Piccard

First Name Jeff
Last Name Piccard
Born on December 16, 1976 (age 47)

Jeff Piccard is a retired French alpine skier.

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John Piccard

First Name John
Last Name Piccard
Born on December 28, 1965 (age 58)
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