Weaver
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[edit] Activities
- Weaver (occupation), a person who weaves fabric
[edit] Animals
- Ploceidae, the weaver bird family
- Crevice weaver spider family
- Orb-weaver spider family
- Weever (or weever-fish)
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
- 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, 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 (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
[edit] 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
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