Fletcher
Fletcher may refer to one of the following:
Ideas and companies
- A fletcher makes arrows, see fletching.
- Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, the graduate school of international relations of Tufts University, located in Medford, Massachusetts.
- Fletcher, a geometrically consructed blackletter typeface
- PAC Fletcher, the New Zealand Fu24 Fletcher aerial topdressing aircraft.
- Fletcher v. Peck, a Supreme Court ruling that allowed the Court to revoke state laws that did not follow the Constitution.
- Fletcher's checksum, an algorithm to check the integrity of data.
- Fletcher Challenge, or one of its successor companies.
- Fletcher Construction, a major New Zealand construction company.
Places
- Fletcher, North Carolina, a suburb of Asheville, North Carolina
- Fletcher, New South Wales, a suburb of Newcastle, Australia
- Fletcher, Colorado, the original name of Aurora, United States
- Fletcher, Ontario, a small town in Canada
People
- Alan Fletcher, a British graphic designer
- Darren Fletcher, a Scottish footballer
- Duncan Fletcher, a former cricket player and former coach of the English cricket team
- Ernie Fletcher, the governor of Kentucky
- Frank Friday Fletcher, an admiral in the United States Navy
- Frank Jack Fletcher, an admiral in the United States Navy
- Giles Fletcher (1586?-1623), English playwright
- Horace Fletcher, an American health-food faddist of the Victorian era who argued that food should "fletcherized", or chewed thirty two times, before swallowing.
- John Fletcher, an early English playwright.
- John Fletcher British tubist, principal tuba of the London Symphony Orchestra
- John Edward Fletcher, an Australian/British scholar.
- Keith Fletcher, an English cricketer
- Percy Fletcher (1879-1932), British composer
- Phineas Fletcher (1582-1650), English playwright
- Richard Fletcher, a former US Rep from Massachusetts
- Sally Fletcher-Murchison, an American/Hawaiian ceramicist
- Yvonne Fletcher a police officer killed from a gunshot from the Lybian Embassy in London.
Fictional people
- Norman Stanley Fletcher, the lead character in the British sit-com Porridge.
- Mundungus Fletcher, a Harry Potter character
- SJ and Sid Fletcher from EastEnders.
- Jessica Fletcher, the main character of serial Murder She Wrote.
- Susan Fletcher, the main character from the Dan Brown novel Digital Fortress.
- Irwin Maurice "Fletch" Fletcher, the main character of the Gregory McDonald series of Fletch novels and the movies resulting from them
- RJ Fletcher, the villain in "Weird Al" Yankovic's film UHF.
- Will Fletcher, a character in the ITV television drama series The Bill
- Fletcher Reede, the main character played Jim Carey in the film Liar Liar.
Ships
- Fletcher class, a type of US Navy destroyer.
- USS Fletcher (DD-445), named for Admiral Frank Friday Fletcher, was the lead Fletcher-class ship and served during World War II.
- USS Fletcher (DD-992), named for Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher, is a Spruance-class destroyer, decommissioned and awaiting transfer into the Pakistani Navy.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; from the article "Fletcher". Image Credit.
