Fletcher

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Fletcher may refer to one of the following:

Contents 1 Ideas and companies 2 Places 3 People 4 Fictional people 5 Ships

[edit] Ideas and companies

• A fletcher makes arrows, see fletching.
• The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, the graduate school of international relations of Tufts University, located in Medford, Massachusetts
• Fletcher (typeface), a geometrically consructed blackletter typeface
• PAC Fletcher, the New Zealand Fu24 Fletcher aerial topdressing aircraft.
• 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 Aviation, a US aircraft manufacturer
• Fletcher Challenge, or one of its successor companies
• Fletcher Construction, a major New Zealand construction company

[edit] Places

Australia

• Fletcher, New South Wales, a suburb of Newcastle

Canada

• Fletcher, Ontario

United States

• Fletcher, Colorado, the original name of Aurora
• Fletcher, Indiana
• Fletcher, North Carolina, a suburb of Asheville

[edit] People

• Alan Fletcher (graphic designer), a British graphic designer
• Andrew Fletcher (musician), member of the English electronic music group Depeche Mode
• Darren Fletcher, a Scottish footballer
• Duncan Fletcher, a former cricket player and former coach of the English cricket team
• Ernie Fletcher, the governor of Kentucky
• Frank Friday Fletcher, an admiral in the United States Navy
• Frank Jack Fletcher, an admiral in the United States Navy
• Giles Fletcher (1586?-1623), English playwright
• 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 (disambiguation), including:
  • John Fletcher (playwright), an early English playwright
  • John Edward Fletcher, an Australian/British scholar
• Keith Fletcher, an English cricketer
• Louise Fletcher, ( born 1934) an American actress
• Percy Fletcher (1879-1932), British composer
• Phineas Fletcher (1582-1650), English playwright
• Richard Fletcher (Massachusetts), a former congressman from Massachusetts
• Sally Fletcher-Murchison, an American/Hawaiian ceramicist
• Tom Fletcher, vocalist from Mcfly
• Yvonne Fletcher, a police officer killed from a gunshot from the Libyan Embassy in London

[edit] Fictional people

• Irwin Maurice "Fletch" Fletcher, the main character of Fletch (novel) and subsequent novels by Gregory McDonald, as well as film adaptations
• Jamie "Fletch" Fletcher, a character in the British soap opera Hollyoaks
• Jessica Fletcher, the main character of the serial Murder She Wrote
• Mundungus Fletcher, a Harry Potter character
• Norman Stanley Fletcher, the lead character in the British sit-com Porridge
• SJ Fletcher and Sid Fletcher from EastEnders
• Will Fletcher, a character in the ITV television drama series The Bill

[edit] Ships

• Fletcher class, a type of US Navy destroyer.
• USS Fletcher (DD-445), named for Admiral Frank Friday Fletcher, was the lead Fletcher-class ship and served during World War II.
• USS Fletcher (DD-992), named for Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher, is a Spruance-class destroyer, decommissioned and awaiting transfer into the Pakistani Navy.