Girard Explained

Girard may refer to:

Places in the United States

• Girard, Alabama
• Girard, Georgia
• Girard, Illinois
• Girard, Kansas
• Girard, Michigan
• Girard, Minnesota
• Girard, Ohio
• Girard, Pennsylvania
• Girard, Texas
• Girard, West Virginia
• Girard Township, Macoupin County, Illinois
• Girard Township, Michigan
• Girard Township, Minnesota
• Girard Township, Erie County, Pennsylvania
• Girard Township, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania
• Girard Avenue, a street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, served by two SEPTA stations:
  • Girard station (Broad Street Line), a subway station on serving the Broad Street Line
  • Girard station (SEPTA Market-Frankford Line), a rapid transit station on Market-Frankford Line
  • SEPTA Route 15, a trolley line also known as the Girard Avenue Line
• Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, was known as Girard until 1941

People

• Girard I of Roussillon (died 1113), count of Roussillon
• Girard II of Roussillon (died 1172), count of Roussillon
• Gerard la Pucelle (1117–1184), Anglo-French scholar of canon law, clerk, and Bishop of Coventry
• Girard of Buonalbergo, Norman chieftain in the middle of the eleventh century in the Mezzogiorno
• Girard Cavalaz (1225–1247), Italian troubadour from Lombardy
• Girard Desargues (1591–1661), French mathematician and engineer, considered one of the founders of projective geometry
• Girard "Gerry" McDonald (born 1958), American ice hockey player

Other uses

• Girard (surname)
• Girard (grape), red wine grape that is also known as Carignan
• Girard-Perregaux, Swiss manufacturer of complex timepieces
• Girard College, private philanthropic boarding school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Girard Estate, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

See also

• Giraud
• Gerard
• Girardin (disambiguation)
• Girardot (disambiguation)
• Girardville (disambiguation)