Fisher

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Distinguish from Fischer and fissure. For people named "Fisher", see Fisher (surname).

Fisher or Fishers can mean:

Contents 1 Animals 2 Colleges 3 Companies 4 Places 5 Video Game Characters 6 Comic 7 See also

[edit] Animals

• Fisher (Martes pennanti), a North American marten.

[edit] Colleges

• Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University

[edit] Companies

• Fisher Automobile Company, first automobile dealership in the United States.
• Fisher Body, an automobile coachbuilder, now owned by General Motors.
• Fisher Communications, a media company.
• Fisher Controls, now Emerson Process Management.
• Fisher Engineering, makers of snowplows, spreaders and related accessories.
• Fisher Flying Products, a kitplane manufacturer.
• Fisher Investments, a money management firm.
• Fisher Scientific, a major laboratory supply company.
• Fisher Space Pen Co., makers of the Fisher Space Pen.
• Fisher is also the name of a line of sailboats built by Northshore Yachts Limited.
• Fisher is also the name of a maker of tennis racquets.

[edit] Places

• Fisher, Australian Capital Territory
• Fisher Bank, a sea area of the UK shipping forecast.
• Fisher, Illinois
• 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.
• Fishers, Indiana
• Fishers, New York
• Fishers Island, New York
• Fisher, Alaska, Volcano on the Aleutian Islands, in Alaska.

[edit] Video Game Characters

• Sam Fisher in the Splinter Cell series

[edit] Comic

• Fisher, a syndicated comic strip by Philip Street

[edit] See also

• Fisher information: a quantity in statistics, named after its inventor.
• Fisher's method for combining independent tests of significance
• R. A. Fisher
• Fisherman
• Fishery