- David Packard
David Packard (September 7, 1912 - March 26, 1996) was a cofounder of Hewlett-Packard. Born in Pueblo, Colorado, he received his B.A. from Stanford University in 1934. Afterwards he worked for the General Electric Company in Schenectady, New York. In 1938, he returned from New York to Stanford, where he received a master's in electrical engineering the following year. In the same year, he married Lucile Salter with whom he had four children: David, Nancy, Susan, and Julie. - David Woodley Packard
David Woodley Packard, Ph.D. (b. 1940) is a former professor and noted philanthropist; he is the son of Hewlett-Packard co-founder David Packard. A former HP board member (1987-1999), David is best known for his opposition to the HP-Compaq merger and his support for classical studies, especially in regards to the digitization of classics research. Packard currently serves as president of the Packard Humanities Institute. - Alpheus Spring Packard Sr.
Alpheus Spring Packard, Sr. (1798-1884) was an American educator, father of Alpheus Spring Packard (1839-1905) and William Alfred Packard (1830-1909). He graduated at Bowdoin, then he remained there for the remainder of his life, firstly as a tutor (1819-24), and Professor of Ancient Language and Classical Literature (1824-65). During the last two years of his life he was acting president of the college. - Kelly Packard
Kelly Chemane Packard (born January 29, 1975 in Glendale, California) is an American actress who starred in the TV shows "Baywatch", "California Dreams", and "Ripley's Believe It or Not!". Kelly also appeared as a contestant, and won $3200, on "Card Sharks" as a child during "Kids Week". Kelly also appeared on infomercials for Billy Blanks' Tae-Bo product, "Billy Blanks Boot Camp" Kelly married Darrin Privett in 1997. - Frank L. Packard
Frank Lucius Packard (February 2, 1877 - February 17, 1942) was a Canadian novelist. He was born in Montreal, Quebec and as a young man went to work as a civil engineer for the Canadian Pacific Railway. His experiences working on the railroad led to his writing a series of mystery novels, the most famous of which featured a character called "Jimmie Dale." Frank Packard died in 1942 in Lachine, Quebec and was buried in the Mount Royal Cemetery in Montreal. - Ron Packard
Ronald C. Packard (January 19, 1931-) is a Republican politician from California. - Norman Packard
Norman Packard (born 1954 in Silver City, New Mexico) is a chaos theory physicist and one of the founders of the Prediction Company and ProtoLife. He is an alumnus of Reed College and the University of California, Santa Cruz. Packard is known for his contributions to both chaos theory and cellular automata. He also coined the phrase "the edge of chaos". - William Guthrie Packard
William Guthrie Packard owned Shepard's Citations and served the company for 51 years rising to the position of President and Chairman of the Board. He is the namesake of Packard Stadium, the home of Arizona State University collegiate baseball. - Elizabeth Packard
Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard (28 December, 1816-25 July, 1897) was an advocate for the rights of women and people accused of insanity. - Becky Wai-Ling Packard
Becky Wai-Ling Packard is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Education at Mount Holyoke College. She received her B.A. from the University of Michigan and her Ph.D. from Michigan State University. She is the winner of the "Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)", the highest honor awarded to young scientists in the country. - Keith Packard
Keith Packard is a software developer, best known for his work on the X Window System. Packard is responsible for many X extensions and technical papers on X. He has been heavily involved in the development of X since the late 1980s, at the MIT X Consortium, XFree86 and presently with the X.Org Foundation. After being expelled from XFree86 after disagreements (which led to the formation of the successful X.Org Server fork), … - Ed Packard
Ed Packard (born 1968, San Antonio, Texas) is an election administrator with the State of Alabama's Office of the Secretary of State. Packard was a candidate in the 2006 Alabama Democratic Party for the office of Alabama Secretary of State. He was defeated in that election by Nancy Worley, receiving 100,626 votes to Worley's 316,043. In May 2006, Packard, in relation to his employment with the Alabama Secretary of State, … - Alpheus Spring Packard
Alpheus Spring Packard, LL.D. (February 19, 1839 - February 14, 1905) was an American entomologist and palaeontologist. He was the son of Alpheus Spring Packard, Sr. (1798-1884) and the brother of William Alfred Packard. He was born in Brunswick, Maine and was Professor of Zoology and Geology at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island from 1878 until his death. He was a vocal proponent of the Neo-Lamarckian theory of evolution. - Edward Packard
Edward Packard (born 1931 in Huntington, New York) is a graduate of Princeton University and Columbia Law School. In addition to his work as a lawyer, essayist, and poet, he is one of the pioneering authors of the second-person fiction style made famous by the "Choose Your Own Adventure" series of children's books. Packard wrote one of the first known books of this type, "Sugarcane Island", in 1969 and saw it first published in 1976. - Stephen B. Packard
Stephen B. Packard was a carpetbagger from the U.S. state of Maine who emerged as an important Republican politician in Louisiana during the era of Reconstruction. He was the unsuccessful Republican gubernatorial nominee in 1876. A captain in the Union Army during the American Civil War, Packard was appointed United States marshal in New Orleans in 1871 during the administration of U.S. President U.S. Grant. He emerged as a leader of what was called the "Customhouse Ring", … - Dennis Packard
Dennis Packard (born February 9, 1982) is an ice hockey player who was born in St. Catharines, Ontario. During his high-school years Packard played for the Wyoming Seminary Blue Knights in the NEPASHL while he was selected US Junior National Team 1999-2000. When playing for the Harvard University hockey team while pursuing his undergraduate degree Packard was drafted by Tampa Bay Lightning in round 7 of the 2001 NHL Entry Draft. - William Alfred Packard
William Alfred Packard was an American classical scholar, born at Brunswick, Me. He was the brother of entomologist Alpheus Spring Packard. He graduated at Bowdoin in 1851, studied at Göttingen in 1857-58, and became professor at Princeton. He wrote for the "Presbyterian Review" and the "Princeton Review". - William Packard
William Packard was the founder and editor of the "New York Quarterly", a poetry magazine. William Packard was born September 2, 1933 and was raised in New York. A graduate of Stanford University, where he earned a degree in Philosophy and studied under the renowned poet and critic Yvor Winters, Mr. Packard was a presence in the literary circles of the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1950’s and 60’s — circles that included such notables as Allen Ginsberg, … - Jasper Packard
Jasper Packard (February 1, 1832 - December 13, 1899) was a U.S. Representative from Indiana. Born in Austintown, Ohio, Packard moved with his parents to Indiana in 1835. He attended the public schools and was graduated from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1855. He taught school. He settled in La Porte, Indiana. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1861. During the Civil War enlisted in the Union Army as a private in the Forty-eighth Regiment, … - Damon Packard
Damon Packard (b. May 4, 1967) is an underground American film director. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Packard's mother, Akron actress Frances Pollock, was the daughter of long-time trade union leader Sam Pollock. She died in 1968 when Damon was a year old. Packard began to become seriously involved with film began at the age of 11. His biggest inspiration was director Steven Spielberg. - Vance Packard
Vance Packard was an American journalist, social critic, and author. - Patricia Neal
Patricia Neal (born January 20 1926, Packard, Kentucky) is an Academy Award winning American actress. - Georges Claude
The French engineer, chemist, and inventor Georges Claude, was the first to apply an electrical discharge to a sealed tube of neon gas (circa 1902) to create a lamp. Inspired in part by Daniel McFarlan Moore's invention, Moore’s Lamp, Paris-born Claude invented the neon lamp by passing an electric current through inert gases, making them glow very brightly. In 1923, Georges Claude and his French company Claude Neon, introduced neon gas signs to the United States, … - Gordon Buehrig
Gordon Miller Buehrig (June 18, 1904 - January 22, 1990) was a noted automobile designer. Born in Mason City, Illinois, he had early design experience with Packard, General Motors and Stutz. In 1929, he was responsible for designing the bodies (built by Weymann) of the Stutz Black Hawks entered at Le Mans. At age 25 he became chief body designer for Duesenberg, where he designed the Model J line of luxury cars. He joined the Auburn Automobile Company in 1934, … - Earle C. Anthony
Earle C. Anthony (December 18, 1880 - August 6, 1961) was a pioneer businessman based in Los Angeles, California. He is primarily known for his pioneering work in two fields: Broadcasting and automobiles. He was also a songwriter, journalist and playwright. In 1923 he was founder and owner of 50,000 watt KFI AM640 radio, a station he controlled until his death in 1961. From 1929 to 1944, he also owned KECA-AM 790, now KABC. - Henry Bourne Joy
Henry Bourne Joy (November 23, 1864 in Detroit, Michigan - November 6, 1936) was President of the Packard Motor Car Company. Joy's father was involved with the great railroad push to Missouri, and hired Abraham Lincoln to assist him with mergers. Joy graduated from Yale University in 1892, and began his career as an office boy with Peninsular Car Company. His involvement with Packard came about when he bought one of its cars. - Frank Hershey
Frank Hershey (b. 1907 - d. 1997), was an American automobile designer and student of General Motors Vice President of Design Harley Earl. Hershey is best known for his 1932 Peerless V-16 prototype, 1949 Cadillac tailfins and the 1955 Ford Thunderbird. Born Franklin Quick Hershey in Michigan, and raised in Beverly Hills and La Puente, California, Hershey began his career at Murphy Coach Works of Pasadena, California under the guidance of Frank Spring. - Larry Shinoda
Lawrence Kiyoshi (Larry) Shinoda (March 25, 1930 - November 13, 1997) was a noted automotive designer who was best known for his work on the Chevrolet Corvette and Ford Mustang. He was born in California and spent time in a Japanese internment camp during WW II. He attended the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles but was kicked out, and went to work first for Ford Motor Company in 1955, then Packard, then General Motors in late 1956. - Roy Abernethy
Roy Abernethy (Sep 29 1906, Pennsylvania - Feb 28 1977, Jupiter, Florida) was an executive in the American automobile industry, serving as CEO of American Motors Corporation (AMC) from February 1962 to January 1967. Prior to his tenure at AMC, Abernethy had been with Packard Motors and Willys-Overland. Abernethy replaced George W. Romney who resigned from AMC to become Governor of Michigan. - Domingo “sam” Samudio
Domingo Samudio, better known as Sam the Sham, was born on February 28, 1937 in Dallas, Texas to Santiago Samudio and Aurora Sanchez. Sam the Sham would later be known for his campy onstage attire of robe and turban (inspiring one of the great tribute album names, Norton Records' 1994 release "Turban Renewal") and hauling his equipment around in a 1952 Packard hearse complete with maroon velvet curtains. - Thomas J. Clark
Originally from New Hampshire, USA, Thomas Jefferson Clark (1869-1907) was a life long friend and partner of John K. Stewart as they built the companies that would one day be the foundation of the Stewart-Warner Corporation of Chicago, Illinois. Clark, is probably only known today for his Clark Foot Warmers. These small automobile heaters contained coal. The coal embers would emit heat providing some relief in a time when automobiles did not have such options. - Frederick Brossy
Frederic A. Brossy (March 25, 1902 - February 20, 1974) set the flight endurance record with Walter Edwin Lees on May 28, 1931. He was born in 1902 to Francis E. Brossy. In 1931 he was an ensign in reserve squadron VN-9RD9 at the Naval Reserve Aviation Base in Grosse Ile, Michigan. Walter Edwin Lees was a lieutenant in the same squadron. Both men were on inactive duty and were working as test pilots for Packard when they set the flight endurance record on May 28, 1931. - Andrew Filipowski
"'Andrew J. "Flip" Filipowski" a Polish American technology entrepreneur born in 1950 in Chicago IL. He is currently the Executive Chairman and CEO of SilkRoad Equity, a private investment firm, and founded Platinum Technology in 1987. He founded or cofounded Blue Rhino Corporation, Primo Water, SilkRoad technology, inc., DBMS, Inc., the House of Blues, SolidSpace, Inc., onramp Branding, MissionMode and InterAct 911 Corp. He was the COO of Cullinet - Bdale Garbee
Bdale Garbee is a computer specialist who works with Linux, particularly Debian GNU/Linux. He is currently the Linux CTO at Hewlett-Packard, and the current President of Software in the Public Interest. Bdale Garbee has been a Debian developer since the earliest days of the project in the mid-1990s, and he set up the original developer machine named "master.debian.org" in 1995. He has later served as a Debian Project Leader for one year (2002-2003). - Steve Jurvetson
Steve Jurvetson is a Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. He was the founding VC investor in Hotmail (MSFT), Interwoven (IWOV), and Kana (KANA). He also led the firm's investments in Tradex and Cyras (acquired by Ariba and Ciena for $8B), and most recently, in pioneering companies in nanotechnology and molecular electronics. Previously, Mr. Jurvetson was an R&D Engineer at Hewlett-Packard, where seven of his communications chip designs were fabricated. - Alan Curtis Kay
Alan Curtis Kay (born May 17, 1940) is an American computer scientist, known for his early pioneering work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface design. He is the president of the Viewpoints Research Institute, and an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. Until mid 2005, he was a Senior Fellow at HP Labs, a Visiting Professor at Kyoto University, … - William Reddington Hewlett
William Redington Hewlett (May 20, 1913 - January 12, 2001) was the co-founder, with David Packard, of the Hewlett-Packard Company (HP). He was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan but moved to San Francisco at the age of 3 years. He attended Lowell High School and was accepted at Stanford University as a favor to his late father, Albion Walter Hewlett, who had died prematurely of a brain tumor in 1925. Hewlett received his Bachelor's degree from Stanford University in 1934, … - Bernard M. Oliver
Bernard M. Oliver (1919 - 1995), (aka Barney Oliver) was an eminent scientist having made important contributions in many fields including Radar, Television, and Computers. He was the founder and director of Hewlett Packard (HP) laboratories until his retirement in 1981. He is also a recognized pioneer in the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence (SETI). - Mark V. Hurd
Mark V. Hurd is the chairman, chief executive officer, and president of Hewlett-Packard. He replaced Carly Fiorina, who left at the advice of HP's board of directors after the difficult merger with Compaq and a struggle with the HP board after reports of disappointing earnings. Hurd succeeded CFO Robert Wayman who had served as interim CEO from February 10, 2005-March 28, 2005. - Lewis E. Platt
Lewis Platt Former CEO, Kendall-Jackson Wine Estates (1999 - 2001) and F ormer CEO, Hewlett-Packard Company (1992-99)
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