Skipper

Skipper may refer to:

• Skipper (boating), a person who has command of a vessel
• Skipper (butterfly)
• Sea Scouting (Boy Scouts of America), name given to Leader of a Scout Troop
• Captain (association football), a team member chosen to be the on-pitch leader of the team: it is often one of the older or more experienced members of the squad, or a player that can heavily influence a game. The team captain is usually identified by the wearing of an armband
• Captain (cricket), of a cricket team is the appointed leader, having several additional roles and responsibilities over and above those of a regular player
• manager (baseball), an individual who is responsible for matters of team strategy on the field and team leadership
• Skippers Aviation, an airline based in Osborne Park, a suburb of Perth
• One who skips

People

• Barry Skipper, Vice Chairman for Norwich City and he joined the club in 1996
• Skipper Badenhorst (born 1978), South African rugby union player
• Skipper Bowles (1919–1986), American politician and businessman
• Skipper Clement (died 1536), Danish merchant, captain, privateer and leader of the peasant rebellion that was part of the civil war known as the Count's Feud (Grevens Fejde)
• Skipper Friday, American baseball player
• Elix Skipper (born 1967), American professional wrestler and former professional football player
• George Skipper (1856–1948), leading Norwich based architect of the late Victorian and Edwardian period. Writer and poet, John Betjeman gave this description of him "he is altogether remarkable and original. He is to Norwich rather what Gaudi was to Barcelona"
• Harry Skipper (born 1960), football player in the CFL for seven years years. Skipper played defensive back for the Montreal Concordes and Saskatchewan Roughriders from 1983-1989. He played college football at the University of South Carolina
• Jim Skipper (born 1949), American football coach. He is currently the running backs coach for the Tennessee Titans of the National Football League
• Keith Skipper, journalist who writes for the Eastern Daily Press. He is also an author and formerly a broadcaster with BBC Radio Norfolk. His most recent books include: The Bumper Book of Norfolk Squit and Confessions of a Norfolk Newshound
• Pat Skipper (born 1958), American television actor, film actor and voice actor
• Peter Skipper (born 1958), retired English footballer who played as a central defender
• Ricardo Skippers (born 1986), South African football (soccer) midfielder and defender for Premier Soccer League club Engen Santos
• Richard Skipper, American stage actor, singer and tribute artist. Although he has created a vast array of characterizations; he is most noteworthy for his tribute to Carol Channing
• Skipper Roberts (baseball) (1888–1963), baseball player
• Ryan Skipper (1981–2007), American murder victim
• Susan Skipper (born 1951), British actress
• Skipper Mullins, American martial arts fighter who has been described as "the greatest kicker in the history of the U.S. karate scene"
• Skipper Wise (born 1957), American Singer/Songwriter/Musician and entrepreneur born in Los Angeles, California
• Svenn Skipper (born 1947), Danish composer
• Tim Skipper
• Wayde Skipper (born 1983), Australian Rules footballer who has played for the Hawthorn Football Club and the Western Bulldogs . Standing at 193 cm, Skipper won the 2003 best first year player for his original club the Western Bulldogs

Technology

• AGM-123 Skipper II, a short-range laser-guided missile
• AMT Skipper, a semi-automatic pistol
• Beechcraft Skipper, a model of aircraft
• USS Skipper (AMc-104), a U.S. Navy minesweeper

Fiction and entertainment

• The Skipper, a character from the television series Gilligan's Island
• Skipper of Otters, in the Redwall series of novels by Brian Jacques
• Skipper Roberts, a character in the Barbie line of dolls
• Sky Skipper, a 1981 arcade game
• Skipper (Madagascar), a character in Madagascar and The Penguins of Madagascar

Animals

• Eight-spotted Skipper, a species of butterfly in the Hesperiidae family, in the Subfamily Heteropterinae, which are sometimes called Skipperlings. It is found in Costa Rica and Panama
• Long-tailed Skipper, a spread-winged skipper butterfly found throughout tropical and subtropical America, south to Argentina and north into the southern part of the United States of America
• Silver-spotted Skipper (disambiguation)
• Yellow-banded Skipper, a species of skipper (family Hesperiidae). It is found in southern and eastern Europe
• European sprat, a fish

Places

• Skippers, Virginia
• Skipper Jacob Rock