Weaver

Weaver

Weaver commonly refers to a person that weaves fabric from thread or yarn. It may also refer to:

Activities

* Weaver (occupation), a person who weaves fabric

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


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