Weaver
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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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