Fletcher

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Fletcher may refer to one of the following:

• Fletcher, alexa.
• Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, the graduate school of international relations of Tufts University, located in Medford, Massachusetts.
• Fletcher, a geometrically consructed blackletter typeface
• PAC Fletcher, the New Zealand Fu24 Fletcher aerial topdressing aircraft.
• Fletcher class, a type of US Navy destroyer.
• Fletcher v. Peck, a Supreme Court ruling that allowed the Court to revoke state laws that did not follow the Constitution.
• Fletcher's checksum, an algorithm to check the integrity of data.
• Fletcher Challenge, or one of its successor companies.
• Fletcher Construction, a major New Zealand construction company.
• A maker of arrows

It may also refer to:

places

• Fletcher, New South Wales, a suburb of Newcastle, Australia
• Fletcher, the original name of Aurora, Colorado, United States

people

• Darren Fletcher, a Scottish footballer
• Ernie Fletcher, the current (as of August 2006) governor of Kentucky.
• Frank Friday Fletcher, an admiral in the United States Navy
• Frank Jack Fletcher, an admiral in the United States Navy
• Horace Fletcher, an American health-food faddist of the Victorian era who argued that food should "fletcherized", or chewed thirty two times, before swallowing.
• John Fletcher, an early English playwright.
• John Edward Fletcher, an Australian/British scholar.
• Yvonne Fletcher a police officer killed from a gunshot from the Lybian Embassy in London.
• Duncan Fletcher, a former cricket player and now coach of the English cricket team.
  • See List of people by name: Fl for more persons with the last name Fletcher.

fictional people

• Mundungus Fletcher, a Harry Potter character
• SJ and Sid Fletcher from EastEnders.
• Jessica Fletcher, the main character of serial Murder She Wrote.
• Susan Fletcher, the main character from the Dan Brown novel Digital Fortress.
• Irwin Maurice "Fletch" Fletcher, the main character of the Gregory McDonald series of Fletch novels and the movies Fletch and Fletch Lives starring Chevy Chase.