Sawyer
Sawyer is an occupational term referring to someone who saws wood. One such job was the now-archaic occupation of someone who cut lumber to length for the consumer market, a task now done by end users or at lumber and home improvement stores.[1] The term is still widely used in the logging industry, wildfire suppression, trail construction and related work to refer to the operator of a chainsaw (or still in some limited applications, a crosscut saw). In the construction industry, the term is applied to the operator of a concrete saw.
Sawyer is also an occupational surname originating in England,[2] for someone who made a living from sawing wood. Sawyer is also less commonly a given name.
This term may also refer to:
- Sawyer, a fallen tree stuck on the bottom of river, where it constitutes a danger to shipping.
Places
In the United States:
- Communities
- Streams
People
- Ada Lewis Sawyer, pioneer female attorney from Rhode Island
- Alan Sawyer (born 1928), professional basketball player
- Amos Sawyer, President of Liberia 1990–1994
- Benjamin C. Sawyer, Mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Chris Sawyer, computer game designer
- Diane Sawyer, American journalist and TV host
- Gary Sawyer, English association football player for Plymouth Argyle F.C.
- Gordon E. Sawyer Award, of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
- Grant Sawyer, Governor of Nevada
- Herbert Sawyer (1730–1798), British Royal Navy admiral
- Herbert Sawyer, British Royal Navy admiral, son of the above
- Ivy Sawyer, American singer, actress and dancer
- Joe Sawyer, Canadian actor
- Josh Sawyer, video game designer
- Lee Sawyer, English footballer
- Lewis E. Sawyer, American congressman
- Miranda Sawyer, English journalist
- Natalie Sawyer, English sports presenter
- Peter Hayes Sawyer, English professor of medieval history, known for his annotated list of Anglo-Saxon charters
- Philetus Sawyer, American politician
- Ray Sawyer, singer from the band Dr. Hook
- Robert J. Sawyer, science fiction author
- Roland D. Sawyer, Massachusetts clergyman and politician
- Shawn Sawyer, figure skater
- Stephen S. Sawyer, American painter
- Thomas C. Sawyer, Ohio State Senator
- Toby Sawyer, English actor
- William Sawyer, several people
- Walter Warwick Sawyer, Mathematics author
- Fictional characters
- Buz Sawyer, title character of a long-running comic strip
- Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain's famous literary character in multiple books
- James "Sawyer" Ford, a character on the ABC television show Lost
- Peyton Sawyer, a fictional character on the hit television show One Tree Hill
- Sawyer, a fictional female cat in the movie "Cats Don't Dance"
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