Weaver
Weaver may 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 Norfolk, England
River Weaver in England
Weaver Hills in Staffordshire, England
Weaver's Mill Covered Bridge in Pennsylvania, USA
Weavers, New South Wales, Australia
Weaver building, Swansea
Weaver Settlement, Nova Scotia
People
Al Weaver (born 1981), British stage actor
Amos Weaver Philippine-American War Medal of Honor recipient
Blayne Weaver (born 1976), US actor
Bruce Weaver (born 1956), Canadian radio personality
Buck Weaver (1890–1956), US baseball player
"Charley Weaver", comic persona of Cliff Arquette
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 (born 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 (born 1982), US baseball player for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
Jeff Weaver (born 1976), US baseball player for the Los Angeles Dodgers
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 (born 1952), boxer
Mike Weaver (ice hockey) (born 1978), NHL ice hockey player
Nicky Weaver (born 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 (born 1949), US actor, daughter of Pat Weaver, and niece of Doodles Weaver
Warren Weaver (1894–1978), mathematician and author of Weaver's memorandum for machine translation
William Weaver (born 1923), translator
William Ralph Weaver (1905–1975), manufacturer of telescopic sights and developer of the Weaver rail mount
Other
Weaver Stance, a two-handed stance for use when firing handguns
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, an abandoned ghost town in the 2002 movie, Disappearance
Weaver (Stephen Baxter), the fourth novel in Baxter's Time's Tapestry quartet
Translation
The word "Weaver" occurs as such in the following languages: English, German, French, Polish.
Translation in Japanese: ウィーバー.
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