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Fisher is an archaic term for fisherman
Fisherman
A fisherman or fisher is someone who captures fish and other animals from a body of water, or gathers shellfish. Worldwide, there are about 38 million commercial and subsistence fishermen and fish farmers. The term can also be applied to recreational fishermen and may be used to describe both men...

, revived as gender-neutral.

Fisher or Fishers may also refer to:
  • Fisher (animal)
    Fisher (animal)
    The fisher is a medium-size mammal native to North America. It is a member of the mustelid family, commonly referred to as the weasel family. The fisher is closely related to but larger than the American Marten...

     (Martes pennanti), a North American mustelid
  • Fisher (band)
    Fisher (band)
    Fisher is a band consisting of songwriter Ron Wasserman and vocalist Kathy Fisher. Fisher has enjoyed some mainstream success. "I Will Love You" was featured in a 2001 episode of Roswell and in the 2007 film Death Sentence...

    , a rock band featuring Kathy Fisher as lead singer
  • Fisher (yachts)
    Fisher (yachts)
    The Fisher line of motorsailing yachts is a line of fiberglass yachts in sizes from 25 ft to 46 ft. Currently completely build from scratch to finished product by Northshore Shipyard in Itchenor near Chichester, England- Short history :...

    , famous British motorsailers
  • Fisher (comic strip)
    Fisher (comic strip)
    Fisher is a Canadian comic strip, which runs daily in The Globe and Mail.The strip, written and drawn by cartoonist Philip Street, first appeared in the Globe and Mail on June 26, 1992. The strip's central character is Tom Fisher, an advertising copywriter...

    , a Canadian comic strip by Philip Street
  • "The Fisher": Sergey Golovkin
    Sergey Golovkin
    Sergey Golovkin was a Soviet serial killer known as "The Fisher" or "The Udav" who killed and butchered 11 boys in the Moscow area between 1986 and 1992....

     (1959-1996), a Russian serial killer

Places

Australia
  • Fisher, Australian Capital Territory
    Fisher, Australian Capital Territory
    Fisher is a suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia located in the district of Weston Creek. Fisher was named after Andrew Fisher , coal miner, founding member of the federal parliamentary Labor Party and Prime Minister of Australia for three terms between 1908 and 1915...

  • Fisher Island (Queensland)
  • Fisher Island (Tasmania)
    Fisher Island (Tasmania)
    Fisher Island is a small granite island, with an area of 0.9 ha, in south-eastern Australia. It is part of Tasmania’s Great Dog Island Group, lying in eastern Bass Strait between Flinders and Cape Barren Islands in the Furneaux Group...

  • Fisher Island Reef
    Fisher Island Reef
    Fisher Island Reef is a small granite island, with an area of 1,000 square metres, in south-eastern Australia. It is part of Tasmania’s Great Dog Island Group, lying in eastern Bass Strait between Flinders and Cape Barren Islands in the Furneaux Group, and is close to Fisher Island.-Flora and...

    , Tasmania
  • Division of Fisher
    Division of Fisher
    The Division of Fisher is anAustralian Electoral Division in Queensland. The division was created in 1949 and is named for Andrew Fisher, three times Prime Minister of Australia. It is located in the Sunshine Coast area north of Brisbane and includes the towns of Caloundra, Mooloolaba, Beerwah,...

    , an electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives, in Queensland
  • Electoral district of Fisher
    Electoral district of Fisher
    Fisher is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. It is named after James Fisher, a colonial politician and the first mayor of Adelaide...

    , a state electoral district in South Australia

United Kingdom
  • Fisher Bank
    Fisher Bank
    The Fisher Bank is a sand bank in the North Sea, off the west coast of Denmark. As Fisher it gives its name to one of the sea areas in the British Shipping Forecast.It is defined by the co-ordinates:* 57°45'N 04°00'E* 56°00'N 04°00'E...

    , a sea area of the UK shipping forecast

United States
  • Fisher, Arkansas
    Fisher, Arkansas
    Fisher is a town in Poinsett County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 265 at the 2000 census. It is included in the Jonesboro, Arkansas Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:Fisher is located at ....

  • Fisher, California (disambiguation), multiple locations
    • Fisher, Humboldt County, California
      Fisher, Humboldt County, California
      Fisher is an locality in Humboldt County, California. It is located north-northwest of Arcata, at an elevation of ....

    • Fisher, Shasta County, California
  • Fisher, Illinois
    Fisher, Illinois
    Fisher is a village in Champaign County, Illinois, United States that was founded in 1875. The population was 1,881 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Fisher is located at ....

  • Fisher, Louisiana
    Fisher, Louisiana
    Fisher is a village in Sabine Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 268 at the 2000 census.-History:Fisher was named for Oliver Williams Fisher and built between 1899 and 1901 by the Louisiana Long Leaf Lumber Company...

  • Fisher, Minnesota
    Fisher, Minnesota
    As of the census of 2000, there were 435 people, 177 households, and 120 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,092.3 people per square mile . There were 197 housing units at an average density of 494.7 per square mile . The racial makeup of the city was 98.62% White, 1.15%...

  • Fisher, Pennsylvania
  • Fisher Island, Florida
    Fisher Island, Florida
    Fisher Island is a neighborhood of metropolitan Miami, Florida, located on a barrier island of the same name. As of the 2000 census, Fisher Island had the highest per capita income of any place in the United States in 2000. The CDP had only 218 households and a total population of 467 persons...

  • Fishers, Indiana
    Fishers, Indiana
    Fishers is a town located in Fall Creek and Delaware townships, Hamilton County, Indiana, with a population of 76,794, according to the 2010 census. A suburb of Indianapolis, Fishers has grown rapidly in recent decades: about 350 people lived there in 1963, 2,000 in 1980, and only 7,200 as recently...

  • Fishers, New York
    Fishers, New York
    Fishers is a hamlet in the northwest corner of the Town of Victor, Ontario County, New York, USA. It is a small suburb of Rochester, NY.Fishers is home to the second oldest railroad building in the United States....

  • Fishers Island, New York

Other

  • the Fisher meteorite of 1894, which landed in Minnesota, United States (see meteorite falls
    Meteorite falls
    Meteorite falls, also called observed falls, are those meteorites that were witnessed by people or automated devices as they moved through the atmosphere or hit the Earth, and were subsequently collected. All other meteorites are called "finds"...

    )
  • Max M. Fisher College of Business
    Max M. Fisher College of Business
    Fisher College’s MBA curriculum allows students to customize their focus. After learning the core functions of business, students can select from over 100 elective courses to refine their knowledge.Students may concentrate in:...

     (also known as 'Fisher College'), a unit of The Ohio State University
  • Fisher Athletic F.C.
    Fisher Athletic F.C.
    Fisher Athletic F.C. was a semi-professional football club from South East London, which last played in the Conference South, which is one of the two leagues that form the sixth tier of the English football league system. The Bermondsey-based club ground-shared at Champion Hill Stadium, the home...

    , defunct football club in England
  • Fisher Electronics
    Fisher Electronics
    Fisher Electronics is a US based subsidiary company of Japanese electronics conglomerate Sanyo specialising in the field of hi-fi electronics.-History:...

    , a Sanyo subsidiary producing low-cost hi-fi equipment
  • Fisher F.C.
    Fisher F.C.
    Fisher F.C. are a non-League football team based in Bermondsey, London Borough of Southwark, England who play in the Kent League.-Formation:...

    , football club based in England
  • Fisher Site
    Fisher Site
    The Fisher Site is an archaeological site in northwestern Greene County, Pennsylvania, United States. Located along a tributary of Wheeling Creek in northern Richhill Township, it was once occupied by a Monongahela village...

    , archaeological site in the USA
  • Fisher Farm Site
    Fisher Farm Site
    The Fisher Farm Site is an archaeological site in Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States. Located in fields on the outskirts of Unionville, it is one of central Pennsylvania's leading archaeological sites.-Profile:...

    , archaeological site in the USA
  • Fisher's exact test
    Fisher's exact test
    Fisher's exact test is a statistical significance test used in the analysis of contingency tables where sample sizes are small. It is named after its inventor, R. A...

    , a statistical significance test
  • Fisher's method
    Fisher's Method
    In statistics, Fisher's method, also known as Fisher's combined probability test, is a technique for data fusion or "meta-analysis" . It was developed by and named for Ronald Fisher...

    , also known as Fisher's combined probability test
  • Sam Fisher (disambiguation)
    Sam Fisher (disambiguation)
    Sam Fisher or Samuel Fisher may refer to:* Sam Fisher , main protagonist of Ubisoft's Splinter Cell video game series* Sam Fisher , Australian rules footballer...

    , multiple people
  • Elena Fisher
    Elena Fisher
    Elena Fisher is one of the protagonists of the Uncharted series created by developer Naughty Dog. Fisher appears in all the three video games in the series: Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, and Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception. While not a playable character, Fisher acts as...

    , character from the Uncharted
    Uncharted
    Uncharted is an award-winning series of action-adventure/platform/third-person shooter video games developed by Naughty Dog and published by Sony Computer Entertainment exclusively for the PlayStation 3 video game console. The series follows modern-day treasure hunter Nathan "Nate" Drake as he...

    video game series
  • Fisher equation
    Fisher equation
    The Fisher equation in financial mathematics and economics estimates the relationship between nominal and real interest rates under inflation....

    , an equation in financial mathematics and economics
  • Fisher transformation
    Fisher transformation
    In statistics, hypotheses about the value of the population correlation coefficient ρ between variables X and Y can be tested using the Fisher transformation applied to the sample correlation coefficient r.-Definition:...

    , a transformation in statistics used to test some hypotheses
  • Fisher Space Pen Co. (see Space Pen
    Space Pen
    The Space Pen , marketed by Fisher Space Pen Company, is a pen that uses pressurized ink cartridges and is claimed to write in zero gravity, underwater, over wet and greasy paper, at any angle, and in very wide temperature range.The Fisher Space Pen was invented by American industrialist and pen...

     and Paul C. Fisher
    Paul C. Fisher
    Paul C. Fisher was an American inventor and politician. He invented the Fisher Space Pen. He held the patent for this invention, which is the most lucrative in the history of pens.-The Fisher Space Pen:...

    )
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