Fisher is an archaic term for a
fisherman
A fisher or fisherman 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 fishers and fish farmers. Fishers may be professional or recreati ...
, revived as gender-neutral.
Fisher, Fishers or The Fisher may also refer to:
Places
Australia
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Division of Fisher
The Division of Fisher is an Australian Electoral Division in Queensland.
Geography
Since 1984, federal electoral division boundaries in Australia have been determined at redistributions by a redistribution committee appointed by the Australi ...
, an electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives, in Queensland
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Electoral district of Fisher
Fisher was an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. It was created in 1970 and named after Sir James Fisher, a colonial politician and the first mayor of Adelaide. It was abolished in a 2016 re ...
, a state electoral district in South Australia
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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 (1862–1928), coal miner, founding member of the federal parliamentary Labor Party and Prime ...
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Fisher, Queensland
Fisher is a suburb in the City of Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia. In the , Fisher had a population of 4 people.
Geography
The Leichhard River flows north–south through the town of Mount Isa, dividing the suburbs of the town into "minesid ...
, a suburb in the City of Mount Isa
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Fisher, South Australia
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Fisher is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located about north-east of the state capital of Adelaide and about north-east of the municipal seat in Mannum.
Fisher consists of land in the northern part of the cad ...
, a locality
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Hundred of Fisher
The Hundred of Fisher is a cadastral hundred of South Australia, founded in 1860.
It is located at 34°36′16″S 139°36′6″E in the County of Eyre, South Australia. The main town of the hundred is Punyelroo, in the Mid Murray Council.
The ...
, a cadastral unit in South Australia
Canada
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Rural Municipality of Fisher
Fisher is a rural municipality in the province of Manitoba in Western Canada.
Communities
*Broad Valley
* Fisher Branch
*Fisherton
*Hodgson
*Poplarfield
*Sylvan
* Zbaraz
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Ca ...
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Fisher (electoral district), a former provincial electoral division in Manitoba, Canada
United Kingdom
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Fisher Bank
The Fisher Bank is a sand bank in the North Sea, off the west coast of Denmark. It consists of ''Great Fisher Bank'', and ''Little Fisher Bank'' (the latter closer to Danish coast). Some older charts refer to them as the "Great Fishing Bank" and ...
, a sea area of the UK shipping forecast
United States
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Fisher, Arkansas
Fisher is a city in Poinsett County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 223 at the 2010 census. It is included in the Jonesboro, Arkansas Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Geography
Fisher is located at (35.491555, -90.972297).
According ...
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Fisher, California (disambiguation), multiple locations
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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 (40.315817, -88.348601).
According to the 2021 census gazetteer files, Fish ...
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Fisher, Louisiana
Fisher is a village in Sabine Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 230 at the 2010 census, down from 268 in 2000.
History
Fisher was named for Oliver Williams Fisher and built between 1899 and 1901 by the Louisiana Long Leaf Lum ...
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Fisher, Minnesota
Fisher is a town in Polk County, Minnesota, United States. It is part of the Grand Forks- ND- MN Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 422 at the 2020 census. Fisher has become a bedroom community for the nearby Greater Grand Forks ...
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Fisher, Missouri Fisher is an extinct town in Carroll County, in the U.S. state of Missouri
Missouri is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking List of U.S. states and territories by area, 21st in ...
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Fisher, Oregon
Fisher is an unincorporated community in rural Lincoln County, Oregon, United States. Fisher lies along Five Rivers Road, south of its intersection with Oregon Route 34. It is slightly north of the Lincoln–Lane county line in the Siuslaw Nati ...
, an unincorporated community
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Fisher, Pennsylvania
Fisher is an unincorporated community in Clarion County, Pennsylvania, United States. The community is east-northeast of Clarion. Fisher has a post office
A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, suc ...
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Fisher, West Virginia
Fisher is an unincorporated community on the South Branch Potomac River in Hardy County, West Virginia
West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian, Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States.The Census Bureau and the Asso ...
, an unincorporated community
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Fisher Island, Florida
Fisher Island is a census-designated place in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States, located on a barrier island of the same name. Since 2015, Fisher Island has the highest per capita income of any place in the United States. It had only 218 ...
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Fishers, Indiana
Fishers is a city in Fall Creek and Delaware townships, Hamilton County, Indiana, United States. As of the 2010 census the population was 76,794, and by 2019 the estimated population was 95,310. A suburb of Indianapolis, Fishers has grown rapidl ...
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Fishers, New York Fishers is a hamlet in the northwest corner of the Town of Victor, Ontario County, New York, United States. It is a small suburb of Rochester.
The community is south of the New York State Thruway (Interstate 90).
A U. S. Post Office is located i ...
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Fishers Island, New York
Fishers Island (Pequot: ''Munnawtawkit'') is an island that is part of Southold, New York, United States at the eastern end of Long Island Sound, off the southeastern coast of Connecticut across Fishers Island Sound. About long and wide, it ...
Archaeological sites
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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. It has been rank ...
, an archaeological site in Greene County, Pennsylvania
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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
The Fisher Farm site enc ...
, an archaeological site in the Centre County, Pennsylvania
Law
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''Fisher v. University of Texas'' (2013), a 2013 Supreme Court case
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''Fisher v. University of Texas'' (2016), a 2016 Supreme Court case
Organizations
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Fisher Body
Fisher Body was an automobile coachbuilder founded by the Fisher brothers in 1908 in Detroit, Michigan. A division of General Motors for many years, in 1984 it was dissolved to form other General Motors divisions. Fisher & Company (originally Allo ...
, a former automobile coachbuilder
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Max M. Fisher College of Business
The Max M. Fisher College of Business is the business school of The Ohio State University, a public research university in Columbus, Ohio. Fisher's campus is located on the northern part of the university within a partially enclosed business ca ...
, part of the Ohio State University
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Fisher Communications
Fisher Communications was a media company in the United States. Based in Seattle, Washington, the company primarily owned a number of radio and television stations in the Western United States. It was the last company in the Seattle area to own ...
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Fisher F.C.
Fisher Football Club is a football club based in Rotherhithe, Southwark, England. The club was established in 2009 after Fisher Athletic folded. Affiliated to the London Football Association, they are currently members of the and play at t ...
, a football club in England
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Fisher Electronics
Fisher Electronics was an American company specialising in the field of hi-fi electronics. The company and the name was bought by Japanese electronics conglomerate Sanyo in 1975.
History
Fisher Electronics was an American audio equipment man ...
, a Sanyo subsidiary producing hi-fi equipment
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The Fisher (electronics manufacturer)
Fisher Electronics was an American company specialising in the field of hi-fi electronics. The company and the name was bought by Japanese electronics conglomerate Sanyo in 1975.
History
Fisher Electronics was an American audio equipment man ...
, a line of electronics marketed by Avery Fisher and predecessor to Fisher Electronics
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Fisher House Foundation
Fisher House Foundation is a charity and foundation that builds comfort homes where military & veterans families can stay free of charge, while a loved one is in the hospital. Fisher Houses are located at major military and VA medical centers n ...
, an organization funding the construction of family lodging facilities near military hospitals
People
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Fisher (surname) Fisher is an English occupational name for one who obtained a living by fishing. In the United States, it is also a common anglicization of the German "Fischer" as well as various Ashkenazi Jewish surnames.
Notable people
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*Aaron R. Fisher (1 ...
, an English surname
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Fisher (musician)
Paul Nicholas Fisher, known by the stage name Fisher (stylised as FISHER) is an Australian music producer. He was nominated for the 2018 ARIA Award for Best Dance Release as well as the Best Dance Recording category at the 61st Annual Grammy Aw ...
, Australian house music producer
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Fisher Ames
Fisher Ames (; April 9, 1758 – July 4, 1808) was a Representative in the United States Congress from the 1st Congressional District of Massachusetts. He was an important leader of the Federalist Party in the House, and was noted for his o ...
(1758–1808), American politician
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Fisher Stevens
Fisher Stevens (born Steven Fisher; November 27, 1963) is an American actor, director, producer and writer. As an actor, he is best known for his portrayals of Ben in ''Short Circuit'' and ''Short Circuit 2'', Chuck Fishman on the 1990s televis ...
(born 1963), American actor, director, producer and writer
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Sergey Golovkin
Sergey Aleksandrovich Golovkin (russian: Серге́й Александрович Головкин; 26 November 1959 — 2 August 1996) was a Soviet-Russian serial killer, rapist and necrophile, convicted for the killing of 11 boys between the ag ...
(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
A meteorite fall, also called an observed fall, is a meteorite collected after its fall from outer space was observed by people or automated devices. Any other meteorite is called a "find". There are more than 1,100 documented falls listed in w ...
)
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Fisher's exact test
Fisher's exact test is a statistical significance test used in the analysis of contingency tables. Although in practice it is employed when sample sizes are small, it is valid for all sample sizes. It is named after its inventor, Ronald Fisher, ...
, a statistical significance test
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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" (analysis of analyses). It was developed by and named for Ronald Fisher. In its basic form, it is used to combin ...
, also known as Fisher's combined probability test
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Fisher equation
In financial mathematics and economics, the Fisher equation expresses the relationship between nominal interest rates and real interest rates under inflation. Named after Irving Fisher, an American economist, it can be expressed as real interest ...
, an equation in financial mathematics and economics
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Fisher transformation
In statistics, the Fisher transformation (or Fisher ''z''-transformation) of a Pearson correlation coefficient is its inverse hyperbolic tangent (artanh).
When the sample correlation coefficient ''r'' is near 1 or -1, its distribution is high ...
, a transformation in statistics used to test some hypotheses
Other uses
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Fisher (animal)
The fisher (''Pekania pennanti'') is a small carnivorous mammal native to North America, a forest-dwelling creature whose range covers much of the taiga, boreal forest in Canada to the northern United States. It is a member of the Mustelidae, mu ...
(''Pekania pennanti''), a North American mustelid
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Fisher (band), a rock band featuring Kathy Fisher as lead singer
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''Fisher'' (comic strip), a Canadian comic strip by Philip Street
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Fisher (yachts)
Fisher motorsailer
A motorsailer is a type of motor-powered sailing vessel, typically a yacht, that can derive power from its sails or engine, independently from each other during moderate seas or winds. A motorsailer may have a sail-to-engine ...
, motorsailers first built in the 1970s
See also
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Fisher Island (disambiguation)
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Fisherman (disambiguation)
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Fishery
Fishery can mean either the enterprise of raising or harvesting fish and other aquatic life; or more commonly, the site where such enterprise takes place ( a.k.a. fishing ground). Commercial fisheries include wild fisheries and fish farms, both ...
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Kingfisher
Kingfishers are a family, the Alcedinidae, of small to medium-sized, brightly colored birds in the order Coraciiformes. They have a cosmopolitan distribution, with most species found in the tropical regions of Africa, Asia, and Oceania, ...
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