Archer

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An archer is a person who is expert in the use of a bow and arrow (archery). Examples of archers can be found at the List of archers article. They were used in ancient and medieval times as part of armies. An archer was equipped with a bow and arrows which they used for long range battles.

Contents 1 People with the name Archer 2 Fictional characters 3 Military 4 Aviation 5 Merchant ships 6 Place names 7 Other uses 8 See also

[edit] People with the name Archer

• Archer, the surname
• "Archer", the anglicized version of the German name Schütze, meaning "shooter" or "rifleman"
• Anne Archer, American actress
• Anthony John Archer, an English jazz double-bassist.
• Brenda Archer, Guyanese high jumper
• Colin Archer, naval architect
• Frederick Scott Archer, British pioneer of photography
• Geoffrey Archer, British author of military thrillers
• Gleason Archer, Sr., founder of Suffolk University
• Gleason Archer, Jr., American theologian
• Iain Archer, Irish musician
• James Archer, Scottish painter
• James J. Archer, American Civil War Confederate general
• Jeffrey Archer, British author, former politician
• John Stuart Archer, Vice-Chancellor of Heriot-Watt University 1997 - 2006
• Johnny Archer, American professional pool player
• Malcolm Archer, British composer, organist, and conductor
• Margaret Archer, British sociologist
• Peter Archer, British peer
• Richard Archer, English singer/songwriter, frontman of UK band Hard-Fi
• Tasmin Archer, English soul/pop/rock singer
• Thomas Archer, English Baroque architect
• Thomas Archer a pioneer pastoralist and Agent General for Queensland, Australia
• Violet Archer, composer
• William Archer, Scottish critic
• William S. Archer (1789-1855), Virginian politician cat

[edit] Fictional characters

• Archer, an X-Factor character in Marvel Comics
• Archer, a character from the Fate/stay night anime
• Cate Archer, the main character in No One Lives Forever, a computer game
• Frank Archer, a soldier in the Fullmetal Alchemist anime
• Jonathan Archer, the captain in the television show Star Trek: Enterprise
• Lew Archer, a private detective in series of novels by Ross MacDonald (named in honor of the The Maltese Falcon character)
• Newland Archer, a character in Edith Wharton's 1920 novel, The Age of Innocence
• Nancy Archer, title character of the film Attack of the 50ft. Woman.
• Sean Archer, a character portrayed by John Travolta/Nicolas Cage in the movie Face/Off
• Several related characters in the Philip K. Dick novel The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
• Legolas An Elf Archer in J.R.R Tolkien's Lord of the Rings

[edit] Military

• Archer (tank destroyer), the British tank destroyer
• HMAS Archer, name of a ship of the Royal Australian Navy
• HMS Archer, name of seven ships of the Royal Navy
• AA-11 Archer, NATO reporting name of the Vympel R-73 air-to-air missile
• Operation Archer, Canadian Forces supporting the ISAF and Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan
• Project ARCHER, an international partnership to develop the next generation self-propelled artillery system for Sweden and Denmark
• ARCHER Artillery System, Swedish produced, entering service circa 2009.

[edit] Aviation

• Airborne Real-time Cueing Hyperspectral Enhanced Reconnaissance, an aerial imaging system
• Piper Archer, a variant of the Piper Aircraft Cherokee general aviation airplane

[edit] Merchant ships

• MV Archer, an American Type C1 ship

[edit] Place names

Australia

• Archer River, a river in Cape York Peninsula

United States

• Archer, Florida
• Archer, Iowa
• Archer, Nebraska
• Archer County, Texas

[edit] Other uses

• Archer (typeface), by American type designers Hoefler & Frere-Jones
• "Green Archers", the varsity teams of De La Salle University-Manila
• Archer Grand Prix cycle race, an international cycle race held annually in Britain for over 50 years
• Archer Road Club, a London-based cycling club
• Archer, an Australian racehorse that won the first two Melbourne Cups in 1861 & 1862.
• Archer (TV series), a 1975 NBC television series starring Brian Keith
• Ranger (character class), a role-playing character class skilled with a bow

[edit] See also

• The Archers, long-running BBC Radio 4 soap opera about rural life in England
• Colonel Acland and Lord Sydney: The Archers famous painting

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