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Fisher is an archaic term for a fisherman, revived as gender-neutral.
Fisher or Fishers may also refer to:
- Fisher (animal) (Martes pennanti), a North American mustelid
- Fisher (band), a rock band featuring Kathy Fisher as lead singer
- Fisher (yachts), famous British motorsailers
- Fisher (comic strip), a Canadian comic strip by Philip Street
The Fisher may refer to:
- A brand of high fidelity audio equipment marketed by Avery Fisher
- Sergey Golovkin (1959-1996), a Russian serial killer known as "The Fisher"
Places
- Australia
- Fisher, Australian Capital Territory
- Fisher Island (Queensland)
- Fisher Island (Tasmania)
- Fisher Island Reef, Tasmania
- 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
- Canada
- United Kingdom
- Fisher Bank, a sea area of the UK shipping forecast
- United States
- Fisher, Arkansas
- Fisher, California (disambiguation), multiple locations
- Fisher, Humboldt County, California
- Fisher, Shasta County, California
- Fisher, Illinois
- Fisher, Louisiana
- Fisher, Minnesota
- Fisher, Pennsylvania
- Fisher Island, Florida
- Fishers, Indiana
- Fishers, New York
- Fishers Island, New York
People
See Fisher (surname)
Organizations
- Max M. Fisher College of Business, part of The Ohio State University
- Fisher Communications
- Fisher F.C. (formerly Fisher Athletic F.C.), a football club in England
- Fisher Electronics, a Sanyo subsidiary producing low-cost hi-fi equipment
In mathematics and science
- The 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
In archaeology
- Fisher Site, archaeological site in the USA
- Fisher Farm Site, archaeological site in the USA
In law
- Fisher v. University of Texas (2013), a 2013 Supreme Court case
- Fisher v. University of Texas (2016), a 2016 Supreme Court case
See also
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