Ian Piccard
Ian Piccard( born 11 March 1968) is a French former alpine skier who competed in the 1994 Winter Olympics and 1998 Winter Olympics.
He is the brother of fellow skiers Franck Piccard, Leila Piccard, Ted Piccard and Jeff Piccard.
Anacyndaraxes
Anacyndaraxes was the father of Sardanapalus, king of Assyria.
Obata Toramori
He was the father of Obata Masamori.
Takayama Tomoteru
He was the father of Takayama Ukon, and was a Kirishitan.
John Templeton (botanist)
John Templeton( 1766–1825) was an early Irish naturalist and botanist.
He is often referred to as the" Father of Irish Botany".
He was the father of naturalist, artist and entomologist Robert Templeton.
Arthur Beauchamp
Arthur Beauchamp( 1827 – 28 April 1910) was a Member of Parliament from New Zealand.
He is remembered as the father of Harold Beauchamp, who rose to fame as chairman of the Bank of New Zealand and was the father of writer Katherine Mansfield.
Don Piccard
Donald Louis Piccard (born January 13, 1926) is a Swiss-born American balloonist.
Piccard was born in Lausanne, Switzerland, to Jean Felix Piccard and Jeannette Piccard.
He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1931.
He first flew in a balloon in 1933, when he was enlisted as "crew" by his mother, the first woman to fly to the edge of space.
He served as a balloon and airship rigger in the U. S. Navy during World War II.
He was one of the driving forces behind the hot-air ballooning revival after the war while a student at the University of Minnesota.
He made the first post-war free flight in 1947 with a captured Japanese balloon.
In 1948, he organized the first balloon club in the United States, the Balloon Club of America.
This club, along with the Balloon Flyers of Akron, formed the Balloon Federation of America, today the national organization for ballooning.
He pioneered plastic and Mylar balloons.
In 1962, he set a new altitude record for a second-class free flight balloon, climbing to 17,000 feet.
On 13 April 1963, he and Ed Yost were the first people to cross the English Channel in a hot air balloon.
He also promoted ballooning as a sport and designed balloons to that end, through his company Piccard Balloons.
He appeared as a "Mr. X" guest on
"What's My Line" on September 1, 1963.
Jean Piccard
Jean Felix Piccard (January 28, 1884 in Basel, Switzerland – January 28, 1963 in Minneapolis, Minnesota), 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.
Cleomenes II
Cleomenes II( died 309 BC) was Agiad King of Sparta from 369 to 309 BC.
The son of Cleombrotus I, he succeeded his brother Agesipolis II.
He was the father of Acrotatus I, the father of Areus I, and of Cleonymus, the father of Leonidas II.
Inoue Masaru (bureaucrat)
Viscount was the first Director of Railways in Japan and is known as the" father of the Japanese railways".

Question: What is the place of birth of Don Piccard's father?
Answer: Basel