Waterman
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Waterman may refer to:
- Watermen, river workers who transferred passengers across and along the city centre rivers in Britain
- Watermen, harvesters of seafood in the Chesapeake Bay region of the United States
- The term waterman (or, more recently, waterperson) is sometimes used in the extreme sports community to denote a skilled and well respected athlete of broad and multiple aquatic skill, e.g., in surfing, bodyboarding, free diving, canoe paddling, whitewater rafting, etc.
[edit] As a surname
- Alan T. Waterman
- Alan T. Waterman Award, a prize awarded by the National Science Foundation
- Dennis Waterman, British actor
- Hannah Waterman, British actress
- John Waterman, state senator from Indiana
- Lewis Waterman, American inventor of the capillary feed fountain pen and the founder of the Waterman pen company
- Michael Waterman, computational biologist
- Pete Waterman, English record producer
- Robert Waterman, 19th century governor of California
- Ron Waterman, mixed martial artist
- Steve Waterman, inventor of Waterman polyhedron and Waterman "Butterfly" World Projection
- Thomas Tileston Waterman, architectural historian, early architect of Colonial Williamsburg and first director, Historic American Buildings Survey
- Waldo Waterman, American aviation pioneer
[edit] Places
- Waterman, Illinois, a village in the United States
- Waterman, Western Australia (now known as Watermans Bay, Western Australia)
[edit] Other things
- Smith Waterman algorithm
- Waterman pens, a luxury pen company
- Waterman Philéas, a series of writing pens
- Waterman (series), an online animated feature
- Waterman Steamship Corporation
[edit] See also
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