Carver

Carver may refer to:

People

• Bob Carver, American physicist and audio equipment designer
• Caroline Carver (born 1959), thriller writer, award winner and adventurer
• Dante Carver (born 1977), American actor
• George Washington Carver (1864–1943), American botanist and inventor
• Jeffrey Carver (born 1949), American science fiction author
• Jesse Carver (1911–2003), English football player and club manager
• John Carver (c. 1576–1621), first governor of Plymouth Colony (Massachusetts)
• John Carver (footballer) (born 1965), English football coach
• Jonathan Carver (1710–1780), American explorer
• Lisa Crystal Carver (born 1968), writer and transgressive artist
• Martin Carver (born 1941), English archaeologist
• Michael Carver, Baron Carver (1915–2001), British soldier and Chief of the General Staff
• Raymond Carver (1938–1988), American short story writer and poet
• Robert Carver (composer), Scottish composer
• Robert Carver (painter) (c. 1730–1791), Irish painter
• Carver Mead (born 1934), U.S. computer scientist
• Thomas Nixon Carver (1865–1961), American economist

Characters

• The Carver (Nip/Tuck), mysterious serial rapist/killer/attacker from the TV series Nip/Tuck
• Elliot Carver, villain in the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies
• Ellis Carver, police officer in HBO drama The Wire
• Holden Carver, character in the comic book series Sleeper
• Jack Carver, protagonist in the first-person shooter game Far Cry
• Jim Carver, police officer in long-running British police drama The Bill
• Paris Carver, wife to the villain in the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies
• Rex Carver, British private eye in books by Victor Canning
• Rosie Carver, character in the James Bond film Live and Let Die
• Zeus Carver, black activist and John McClane's partner in the film Die Hard with a Vengeance

Places

In the United States:

• Carver, Massachusetts
• Carver, Minnesota
• Carver, Oregon
• Carver (Richmond, Virginia)
• Carver Center for Arts and Technology, public high school in Towson, Maryland

Other meanings

• Carver (automobile)
• Carver (crater), lunar crater
• Carving knife
• CARVER matrix, a target prioritization method
• Carver Yachts, a powerboat company located in Pulaski, Wisconsin in the United States
• Carver (film), a 2008 horror film directed by Franklin Guerrero, Jr.
• Carver (novel), the fifth novel of the Samuel Carver series by Tom Cain
• Carver (play), a radio drama by the Scottish composer and writer John Purser

See also

• Carving (disambiguation)