Diver
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Diver or divers may refer to:
- Diving, the sport of performing acrobatics while jumping or falling into water
- Category:Divers
- Underwater diving
- Category:Underwater divers
- Scuba diving, in which a diver uses a scuba set to breathe underwater
- Surface-supplied diving, in which a diver uses an umbilical to breathe
Animals
- Loons, or divers, a group of aquatic birds found in parts of North America and northern Eurasia
- One of two New Zealand fish:
People
- An English spelling of an Irish surname prevalent in Northern County Donegal, Ireland
- Alfred Diver (1823–1876), English cricketer
- Bridget Diver (died 1915), watch guard in the American Civil War
- Colin Diver, president of Reed College in Portland, Oregon, USA
- Danny Diver (born 1956), former manager of East Stirlingshire Football Club
- Edwin Diver (1861–1924), English cricketer
- Joe Diver, Irish Gaelic footballer who plays for Derry
- Stuart Diver (born 1970), ski instructor, sole survivor of the 1997 Thredbo landslide
- William Diver (1921–1995), founder of the Columbia School of Linguistics
- Edward Divers (1837–1912), British chemist
Other uses
- V-1 flying bomb, code named "diver" by the British World War II armed forces
- Operation Diver, the British countermeasures against the German V-1 flying bomb campaign
- Diver (Transformers), several characters in the Transformers universe
- Diver (EP), a 2006 EP by A Wilhelm Scream
- "Diver" (Nico Touches the Walls song), 2011
- Divers (Joanna Newsom album), a 2015 album by Joanna Newsom
- Divers hands, an archaic phrase used to say that a project has been contributed to by many people
- A translation of Dutch duiker, the small antelope duiker
- The Diver, a 2000 sculpture by John Kaufman
- Piers Plowman, used in the William Langland poem "Piers Plowman"
See also
- All pages with titles containing diver
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