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 recre ...

, revived as gender-neutral. Fisher, Fishers or The Fisher may also refer to:

Places

Australia

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 Australia ...

, an electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives, in Queensland *

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 * 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 is a rural municipality in the province of Manitoba in Western Canada. Communities *Broad Valley * Fisher Branch *Fisherton * Hodgson *Poplarfield *Sylvan *Zbaraz Zbarazh ( uk, Збараж, pl, Zbaraż, yi, זבאריזש, Zbarizh) i ...

Fisher (electoral district) Fisher is a former provincial electoral division in Manitoba, Canada. It was created for the 1920 provincial election, and eliminated with the 1969 election. The constituency was located in mid-northern Manitoba, in the Interlake region. T ...

, 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 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 ...

Fisher, California (disambiguation) Fisher, California may refer to: * Fisher, Humboldt County, California * Fisher, Shasta County, California {{geodis ...

, multiple locations *

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, Fis ...

* Fisher, Louisiana * Fisher, Minnesota *

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 i ...

* Fisher, Oregon, an unincorporated community *

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 with ZIP code 16225. References {{authority control Unincorporated communitie ...

* Fisher, West Virginia, an unincorporated community *

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 2 ...

Fishers, Indiana Fishers is a city in Fall Creek Township, Hamilton County, Indiana, Fall Creek and Delaware Township, Hamilton County, Indiana, Delaware townships, Hamilton County, Indiana, Hamilton County, Indiana, United States. As of the 2010 United States Cens ...

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 Interstate 90 (I-90) is an eas ...

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

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 *

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 en ...

, 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 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 All ...

, a former automobile coachbuilder * Max M. Fisher College of Business, part of the Ohio State University *

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 ow ...

* Fisher F.C., a football club in England *

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 ma ...

, 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) 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 *

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 ...

(1758–1808), American politician *

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 televi ...

(born 1963), American actor, director, producer and writer *

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 ...

(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 ...

) *

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 ...

, a statistical significance test *

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 combi ...

, also known as Fisher's combined probability test * Fisher equation, an equation in financial mathematics and economics *

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 hi ...

, a transformation in statistics used to test some hypotheses

Other uses

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 boreal forest in Canada to the northern United States. It is a member of the mustelid family (comm ...

(''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