Waterman

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.

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
* Nixon Waterman, a poet and newspaperman
* 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

Places

* Waterman, Illinois, a village in the United States
* Waterman, Western Australia (now known as Watermans Bay, Western Australia)

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
* Waterman (sports) Or Waterperson. Someone who takes part in multiple water activities.

See also

* Wassermann
* Wasserman