Packer

Packer may refer to:

People

• Alfred Packer, cannibal
• Asa Packer, founder of Lehigh University
• Billy Packer, American college basketball commentator
• Boyd K. Packer, President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
• Douglas Ricardo Packer, footballer with Juventus F.C.
• Earl L. Packer
• Sir Frank Packer, father of Kerry Packer
• George Packer, American journalist and novelist
• Harry Packer, Wales international rugby player
• Sir Herbert Annesley Packer, a British officer in the Royal Navy
• James Packer, billionaire, son of Kerry Packer
• J. I. Packer, theologian
• Kerry Packer, Australian media magnate
• Richard Packer (civil servant), former British civil servant
• Richard Packer (politician) (1794—1872), New Zealand politician
• Russell Packer, New Zealand rugby league footballer

Sports teams

• Green Bay Packers, an American football team in Green Bay, Wisconsin
• Anderson Packers, a former professional basketball team that played for Anderson, Indiana in 3 different leagues, from 1946 to 1951
• Chicago Packers, the former name of the NBA team the Washington Wizards, when they played in Chicago, Illinois for the 1961-62 NBA season
• Kansas City Packers, a Federal League baseball team from 1914 to 1915

Occupations

• A pack train operator (eg outfitter)
• A meat packer
• A household goods packer for moving; see moving company

Other uses

• Cultipacker, an agricultural roller.
• A packer is a phallic object worn to simulate male genitals; see packing (phallus)
• The Packer Collegiate Institute
• Packers are wrappers put around pieces of software to compress and/or encrypt their contents.
  • a runtime packer is a component used to reduce executable sizes
• The Packers, an American soul group
• A packer is a sealing device used to isolate zones inside well casing

See also

• Packing (disambiguation)
• Pack (disambiguation)