// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhat did Achard say when his thorny plant grew? Nothing, he was a little prickly.

Achard is a French surname. During the Middle Ages, it was also a given name from Norman.

As a surname, it may refer to:

• Albert Achard (1894–1972), French World War I flying ace
• Antoine Achard (1696–1772), Swiss Protestant minister
• Claude-François Achard (1751–1809), French physician
• Emile Achard (1860–1944), French physician
• Franz Karl Achard (1753–1821), Prussian chemist
• Gilbert Achard-Picard (1918–1954), French bobsledder
• Guy Achard (born 1936), French Latinist
• Jean Achard (painter) (1807–1884), French painter
• Jean Achard (racing driver) (1918–1951), French race-car driver and journalist
• Julien Alexandre Achard de Bonvouloir (1749–1783), secret French envoy to the American colonies
• Léon Achard (1831–1905), French tenor
• Louis Amédée Achard (1814–1875), French novelist
• Marcel Achard (1899–1974), French playwright
• Michel Jacques François Achard (1778–1865), French general
• Sophie Achard (born 1977), French statistical neuroscientist

As a given name, it may refer to:

• Achard of Saint Victor (c. 1100–1171), cannon regular and bishop
• Count Achard of Lecce, Norman count of Lecce