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Medard is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Lauterecken-Wolfstein.
Medard is a German male given name, which is a form of the name Medardus, derived from Mahtahard, meaning " brave" or "hardy". The French variant is Medárd and the Italian variant is Medardo. The name may refer to:
- Medard Albrand (1898–1981), French politician
- Medard Boss (1903–1990), Swiss psychiatrist
- Medard des Groseilliers (1618–1696), French explorer
- Medardo Fantuzzi (1906–1986), Italian automotive engineer
- Medard Gabel (born 1946), American writer
- Medardo Martínez (born 1988), Nicaraguan footballer
- Medard Mulangala (born 1957), Congo politician
- Medardo Rosso (1858–1928), Italian sculptor
- Medardo Ángel Silva (1898–1919), Ecuadorian poet
- Medard Tytgat (1871–1948), Belgian artist
- Medard Welch (1892–1980), American scientist
Medard is an artificial lake (now 4.93 km²) in the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic, northwest of Sokolov, near Svatava and Habartov. The lake was created by flooding the former coal mine called Medard-Libík. The lakes surface area stretchs 493 ha, its maximum depth is 50 m and the capacity is approximately 50 mil. m. It is the largest lake in the Czech Republic.