Fitch
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Fitch can refer to several people, concepts and places:
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[edit] Family name
There are several individuals named Fitch:
- Alfred Fitch - American Olympian
- Alva Revista Fitch — U.S. Army Lieutenant General
- Aubrey Fitch — U.S. Naval Admiral, for whom is named
- a U.S. Naval ship, the USS Aubrey Fitch (FFG-34)
- Bill Fitch — basketball coach
- Brian T. Fitch — French-Canadian nonfiction author
- Clyde Fitch — American playwright
- Dennis E. Fitch - NASA safety consultant
- Ezra Fitch — New York lawyer and cofounder of Abercrombie & Fitch, a clothing company.
- Frederic Brenton Fitch — American logician and inventor of Fitch-style calculus
- Frederick W. Fitch — American barber and creator of Fitch's Dandruff Remover Shampoo
- George Fitch — American author
- George Ashmore Fitch — YMCA Nanking Safety Zone International Committee Administrative Director, for whom are named
- YMCA Camp Fitch (Springfield, Pennsylvania)
- YMCA Camp Fitch (Put-in-Bay, Lake Erie, Ohio)
- Gerald Fitch — U.S. basketball player
- Henry Sheldon Fitch — American herpetologist
- Horatio Fitch - American Olympian
- James Marston Fitch — historic preservationist
- James P. Fitch — notable in the early history of the Boy Scouts of America
- Janet Fitch - American author
- John Fitch (inventor) — early American inventor, built the first steamboat in the United States in 1786
- John Fitch (settler) — Massachusetts settler for whom Fitchburg, Massachusetts is named
- John Fitch (New York City history) — historical figure of New York City during a period from 1825 to 1920, a subject of Herbert Asbury's The Gangs of New York
- John Fitch (driver) — racetrack driver and inventor of innovative safety devices
- John A. Fitch — writer and professor of labor relations in
- John Knowles Fitch — founder of Fitch Ratings, Ltd.
- Jon Fitch - American martial artist
- Nancy Fitch — Professor of History, Cal State/Fullerton
- Ralph Fitch — British merchant-explorer of India and Burma, for whom was named
- Fitche Square (now Mahabandoola Park) in Rangoon
- R. Bruce Fitch — Progressive Conservative New Brunswick Cabinet Minister
- Sheree Fitch — Canadian children's author
- Thomas Fitch (governor) — Governor of the Colony of Connecticut 1754–1766
- Thomas Fitch (politician) — Nevada politician
- Val Logsdon Fitch — Nobel Prize-winning nuclear physicist
- William Fitch Allen — Judge of the New York Court of Appeals
- The Milwaukee Fitch family that founded the Milwaukee Railroad
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- as well as various governors of colonial Massachusetts, colonial Connecticut and colonial New York, and a lieutenant-governor of Ohio
[edit] Place name
- Fitch's Covered Bridge, Delhi, New York
- Fitch Township, Ohio
- Mount Fitch, in Massachusetts on the Appalachian Trail
- Fitchburg, Massachusetts
- Fitchburg, Michigan
- Fitchburg, Kentucky
- Fitchburg, Wisconsin
- Fitchville, Connecticut
[edit] Business name
- Abercrombie & Fitch, clothiers
- Fitch Ratings, Ltd., international credit rating agency
- Fitchburg Railroad, named for the Massachusetts town
[edit] Other uses
- the European Polecat (Mustela putorius).
- a U.S. Naval ship, the USS Fitch (DD-462)
- a name for Nigella sativa seed used in the King James Version of the Bible