Fisher

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Fisher is an archaic term for a fisherman, revived as gender-neutral.

Fisher, Fishers or The Fisher may also refer to:

Places

Australia

• Division of Fisher, an electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives, in Queensland
• Electoral district of Fisher, a state electoral district in South Australia
• Fisher, Australian Capital Territory
• Fisher, Queensland, a suburb in the City of Mount Isa
• Fisher, South Australia, a locality
• Hundred of Fisher, a cadastral unit in South Australia

Canada

• Rural Municipality of Fisher
• Fisher (electoral district), a former provincial electoral division in Manitoba, Canada

United Kingdom

• Fisher Bank, a sea area of the UK shipping forecast

United States

• Fisher, Arkansas
• Fisher, Illinois
• Fisher, Louisiana
• Fisher, Minnesota
• Fisher, Missouri
• Fisher, Oregon, an unincorporated community
• Fisher, Pennsylvania
• Fisher, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
• Fisher Island, Florida
• Fishers, Indiana
• Fishers, New York
• Fishers Island, New York

Archaeological sites

• Fisher site, an archaeological site in Greene County, Pennsylvania
• Fisher Farm site, an archaeological site in the Centre County, Pennsylvania

Law

• Fisher v. University of Texas (2013), a 2013 Supreme Court case
• Fisher v. University of Texas (2016), a 2016 Supreme Court case

Organizations

• Fisher Body, a former automobile coachbuilder
• Max M. Fisher College of Business, part of the Ohio State University
• Fisher Communications
• Fisher F.C., a football club in England
• Fisher Electronics, a Sanyo subsidiary producing hi-fi equipment
  • The Fisher (electronics manufacturer), a line of electronics marketed by Avery Fisher and predecessor to Fisher Electronics
• Fisher House Foundation, an organization funding the construction of family lodging facilities near military hospitals

People

• Fisher (surname), an English surname
• Fisher (musician), Australian house music producer
• Fisher Ames (1758–1808), American politician
• Fisher A. Blocksom (1782–1876), American politician and lawyer from Ohio
• Fisher Stevens (born 1963), American actor, director, producer and writer
• Sergey Golovkin (1959–1996), Russian serial killer known as "The Fisher"

Science and mathematics

• Fisher meteorite of 1894, which landed in Minnesota, United States (see meteorite falls)
• Fisher's exact test, a statistical significance test
• Fisher's method, also known as Fisher's combined probability test
• Fisher equation, an equation in financial mathematics and economics
• Fisher transformation, a transformation in statistics used to test some hypotheses

Other uses

• Fisher (animal) (Pekania pennanti), a North American mustelid
• Fisher (band), a rock band featuring Kathy Fisher as lead singer
• Fisher (comic strip), a Canadian comic strip by Philip Street
• Fisher (yachts), motorsailers first built in the 1970s
• "Fisherrr", song by Cash Cobain and Bay Swag

See also

• Fisher Island (disambiguation)
• Fisherman (disambiguation)
• Fishery
• All pages with titles containing Fisher
• Kingfisher

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This page was last edited on 21 April 2024, at 05:31