Weaver (disambiguation)

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Weaver may mean many things:

• A person who weaves fabric from thread or yarn

• The Weavers, a folk music group formed in 1947 by Ronnie Gilbert, Lee Hays, Fred Hellerman and Pete Seeger.

• Animals:
  • Weaver bird family
  • Crevice weaver spider family
  • Orb-weaver spider family
  • Weaver fish

• Places:
  • Weaver, Alabama, USA
  • Weavers Way, a long footpath, or trail, in England
  • River Weaver in England
  • Weaver's Mill Covered Bridge in Pennsylvania, USA

[edit] People:

• • Al Weaver (1981 – ), British stage actor
  • Blayne Weaver (1976 – ), US actor
  • Bruce Weaver (1956 – ), Canadian radio personality
  • Buck Weaver (1890 – 1956), US baseball player
  • Dennis Weaver, (1924 – 2006), US actor
  • Doodles Weaver (1911 – 1983), US comic and actor; brother of Pat Weaver, and uncle of Sigourney Weaver
  • Earl Weaver (1930 – ), Major League Baseball manager
  • George Augustus Weaver (November 1871 – January 20, 1939), US African-American physician and community leader
  • James Weaver (1833 – 1912), US politician
  • Jered Weaver (1982 – ), US baseball player for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
  • Jeff Weaver (1976 – ), US baseball player for the St. Louis Cardinals
  • Mike Weaver (1952 – ), boxer
  • Mike Weaver (hockey), NHL ice hockey player
  • Pat Weaver (1908 – 2002), US television executive, father of actress Sigourney Weaver, and brother of Doodles Weaver
  • Richard C. Weaver, better known as the "Handshake Man"
  • Richard M. Weaver (1910 – 1963), US scholar and author
  • Sigourney Weaver (1949 – ), US actor, daughter of Pat Weaver, and niece of Doodles Weaver
  • William Weaver, translator
  • Warren Weaver, mathematician and author of Weaver's memorandum for machine translation
  • William Ralph Weaver (1905 – 1975), manufacturer of telescopic sights and developer of the Weaver rail for mounting same.