Weaver
Weaver commonly refers to a person that weaves fabric from thread or yarn. It may also refer to:
Activities
Animals
- Ploceidae, the weaver bird family
- Crevice weaver spider family
- Orb-weaver spider family
- Weever (or weever-fish)
Places
- Weaver, Alabama, USA
- Weaver, Minnesota, USA
- Weavers Way, a long footpath, or trail, in England
- River Weaver in England
- Weaver's Mill Covered Bridge in Pennsylvania, USA
- Weavers, New South Wales, Australia
- Weaver building, Swansea
People
- Al Weaver (1981 – ), British stage actor
- Amos Weaver Philippine-American War Medal of Honor recipient
- 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 (1871 – 1939), US African-American physician and community leader
- Henry A. Weaver (1820 – 1890), Mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1857 to 1860.
- Henry Grady Weaver (1889 – 1949), author of The Mainspring of Human Progress, General Motors executive
- 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, currently a free agent
- John Weaver (1673 – 1760), dancer
- John Carrier Weaver (1915 – 1995), university professor and president
- John Ernest Weaver (1884 – 1966), botanist and university professor
- Mike Weaver (1952 – ), boxer
- Mike Weaver (hockey), NHL ice hockey player
- Nicky Weaver (1979 – ), English footballer
- 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
- Robert C. Weaver (1907-1997), first US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and first African-American to hold cabinet-level position
- Sigourney Weaver (1949 – ), US actor, daughter of Pat Weaver, and niece of Doodles Weaver
- Warren Weaver, mathematician and author of Weaver's memorandum for machine translation
- William Weaver, translator
- William Ralph Weaver (1905 – 1975), manufacturer of telescopic sights and developer of the Weaver rail for mounting same
Other
- The Weavers, a folk music group formed in 1947 by Ronnie Gilbert, Lee Hays, Fred Hellerman and Pete Seeger
- The Weavers, English title of Die Weber, a play by Gerhart Hauptmann
- weaver, a document processing tool for use in literate programming by Seth Falcon
- Weaver, an abandoned ghost town in the 2002 movie, Disappearance
- Codename for Google Health
- Weaver, a name for a person with special "supernatural" abilities in the book series Braided Path by Chris Wooding
- Weaver (Stephen Baxter)(2008): It is the fourth novel in Baxter's Time's Tapestry quartet and deals with a Nazi invasion and occupation of Southeastern England (1940-1943)
