Fish (disambiguation)
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Fish
are vertebrates with gills that live in water. Related concepts include:
Fish may also refer to:
Fish
Fish are a paraphyletic group of organisms that consist of all gill-bearing aquatic vertebrate animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish, as well as various extinct related groups...
are vertebrates with gills that live in water. Related concepts include:
- Fish (food)Fish (food)Fish is a food consumed by many species, including humans. The word "fish" refers to both the animal and to the food prepared from it. Fish has been an important source of protein for humans throughout recorded history.-Terminology:...
, an important source of protein for humans throughout recorded history - FishingFishingFishing is the activity of trying to catch wild fish. Fish are normally caught in the wild. Techniques for catching fish include hand gathering, spearing, netting, angling and trapping....
, the activity of trying to catch fish
Fish may also refer to:
People
- Albert FishAlbert FishHamilton Howard "Albert" Fish was an American serial killer. He was also known as the Gray Man, the Werewolf of Wysteria, the Brooklyn Vampire, the Moon Maniac and The Boogey Man. A child rapist and cannibal, he boasted that he "had children in every state," and at one time put the figure at...
(1870–1936), American serial killer and cannibal - Bert FishBert FishBert Fish was an American judge, real-estate operator, finance director, philanthropist, and ambassador.-Early life:Fish originally hailed from Bedford, Indiana, but moved to Volusia County, Florida in 1881...
(1875–1943), American judge and ambassador - Eric FishEric FishEric Fish , singer of Subway to Sally and solo artist.-History:Eric's first musical merit was that of reaching the finale of a DDR singer/songwriter competition in 1988. The same year he founded Catriona, a folk band based in Königs Wusterhausen, together with Jan Klemm and Marek Kalbus...
(born 1969), singer in Subway To Sally and solo artist - Fred FishFred FishFred Fish was a computer programmer notable for work on the GNU Debugger and his series of Fish disks of freeware for the Amiga. He was a pioneering spirit pervasive in the Amiga community...
(1952–2007), American computer programmer - Fish (Kent cricketer)Fish (Kent cricketer)Fish refers to a noted professional cricketer in the 18th century who was chiefly associated with Kent in the 1760s and 1770s....
, refers to a noted professional cricketer in the 18th century who was chiefly associated with Kent in the 1760s and 1770s - Ginger FishGinger FishKenneth Robert Wilson , better known by his stage name Ginger Fish, is an American drummer primarily known for playing drums for Marilyn Manson 1995-2011...
(born 1965), drummer for the band Marilyn Manson - Hamilton Fish (disambiguation)Hamilton Fish (disambiguation)Hamilton Fish may refer to:*Hamilton Fish , Governor of New York and U.S. Secretary of State*Hamilton Fish II , son of Hamilton Fish, Republican Congressman...
, any of several American politicians - Henry Smith FishHenry Smith FishHenry Smith Fish was a 19th century New Zealand politician.He represented the Dunedin South electorate from 1881 to 1884 when he was defeated, then from 1887 to 1890. He then held one of the three seats for the City of Dunedin multi-member electorate from 1890 to 1893 when he was defeated, and...
(1838–1897), New Zealand politician from Dunedin - Leslie FishLeslie FishLeslie Fish is a filk musician, author, and anarchist political activist.-Music:Along with The DeHorn Crew, in 1976 she created the first commercial filk recording, Folk Songs for Folk Who Ain't Even Been Yet...
, singer and anarchist - Mardy FishMardy FishMardy Simpson Fish is an American professional tennis player, and Olympic silver medalist. He is a hardcourt specialist...
(born 1981), American professional tennis player - Matt FishMatt FishMatt Fish is a retired American professional basketball player in the NBA for the Los Angeles Clippers, Denver Nuggets, New York Knicks, Miami Heat and Washington Bullets. He played collegiately at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.Fish has also played in the IBA and the CBA.-External...
(born 1969), American basketball player - Michael FishMichael FishMichael Fish MBE is a semi-retired British weather forecaster, best known for his BBC Weather television presentations, although he was actually employed by the Met Office....
(born 1944), BBC weather presenter - Michael Fish (fashion designer)Michael Fish (fashion designer)Michael Fish is a British fashion designer famous for designing many of the notable British looks of the 1960s and 1970s, such as the kipper tie.-Career as fashion designer:...
, UK fashion designer - Morris FishMorris FishMorris J. Fish, is a judge of the Supreme Court of Canada.Born in Montreal, Quebec, the son of Aaron S. Fish and Zlata Grober, he received a Bachelor of Arts in 1959 and a Bachelor of Law in 1962 from McGill University.He practiced law mostly in Quebec for the law firm Cohen, Leithman, Kaufman,...
(born 1938), Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada - Nicky FishNicky FishNicholas James "Nicky" Fish is a footballer currently without a club.-Career:A product of the Cardiff City youth team, alongside players such as Joe Ledley and Byron Anthony, Fish played for Wales at several youth levels and joined Cardiff at the age of ten years old, signing his first...
(born 1984), Welsh footballer - Oliver FishOliver FishOliver Fish is a fictional character on the ABC daytime drama One Life to Live, portrayed by Scott Evans since January 15, 2008. The June 2009 announcement that the character would be romantically linked to another man in an ongoing storyline came to wider attention when Patricia Mauceri, an...
, fictional character on the ABC daytime drama One Life to Live - Preserved FishPreserved FishPreserved Fish was a prominent New York City shipping merchant in the early 19th century. He served as president of the Bank of America, which was unrelated to the current institution of that name, and an early broker of the New York Stock & Exchange Board...
(1766–1846), New York shipping merchant - Simon FishSimon FishSimon Fish was a 16th century Protestant reformer and English propagandist. Fish is best known for helping to spread William Tyndale’s New Testament and for authoring the vehemently anti-clerical pamphlet Supplication for the Beggars which was condemned as heretical by the Roman Catholic Church...
(died 1531), 16th century Protestant reformer - Stanley FishStanley FishStanley Eugene Fish is an American literary theorist and legal scholar. He was born and raised in Providence, Rhode Island...
(born 1938), literary theorist - Stuyvesant FishStuyvesant FishStuyvesant Fish was president of the Illinois Central Railroad.Fish was born in New York City, the son of Hamilton Fish and his wife Julia Ursin Niemcewicz, née Kean. A graduate of Columbia College, he was later an executive of the Illinois Central Railroad, and as its president from 1887 to 1906...
(1851–1923), president of Illinois Central Railroad
As a nickname
- Fish (singer)Fish (singer)Derek William Dick, better known as Fish, is a Scottish progressive rock singer, lyricist and occasional actor, best known as the former lead singer of Marillion.-Biography:...
(born 1958), Progressive Rock artist and producer, former singer in the British rock group Marillion - Philip Fisher, former drummer from FishboneFishboneFishbone is a U.S. alternative rock band formed in 1979 in Los Angeles, California, which plays a fusion of ska, punk rock, funk, hard rock and soul. Critics have noted of the band: "Fishbone was one of the most distinctive and eclectic alternative rock bands of the late '80s...
- Fish LeongFish LeongFish Leong is the stage name of Jasmine Leong, a Malaysian Chinese singer in the Mandarin pop scene who has had much success in Taiwan, Mainland China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and Japan...
(born 1978), nickname of Jasmine Leong, a Malaysian singer - Barry "The Fish" MeltonBarry MeltonBarry "The Fish" Melton was the co-founder and original lead guitarist of Country Joe and The Fish. Barry appears on all the Country Joe and The Fish recordings and he also wrote some of the songs that the band recorded...
(born 1947), guitarist who performed in the band Country Joe and The Fish - Chris SquireChris SquireChristopher Russell Edward "Chris" Squire , is an English musician, known as the bass guitarist and backing vocalist for the progressive rock group Yes. He is the only member of the group to appear on every album.-Before Yes:...
(born 1948), bassist in the British progressive rock band Yes - Jon FishmanJon FishmanJon Fishman is an American drummer best known for his work with the band Phish. He is credited with co-writing 19 Phish originals, 8 of them as a solo credit....
(born 1965), drummer in the American jam band Phish - The Fish is a common nickname for ska-punk band Reel Big FishReel Big FishReel Big Fish is an American ska punk band from Huntington Beach, California, best known for the 1997 hit "Sell Out". The band gained mainstream recognition in the mid-to-late 1990s, during the third wave of ska with the release of the gold certified album Turn the Radio Off. Soon after, the band...
- "The Fish" is an often-used nickname for Florida professional sports teams
- Florida MarlinsFlorida MarlinsThe Miami Marlins are a professional baseball team based in Miami, Florida, United States. Established in 1993 as an expansion franchise called the Florida Marlins, the Marlins are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's National League. The Marlins played their home games at...
- Miami DolphinsMiami DolphinsThe Miami Dolphins are a Professional football team based in the Miami metropolitan area in Florida. The team is part of the Eastern Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...
, a Professional football team based in the Miami metropolitan area in Florida
- Florida Marlins
- Michael ScofieldMichael ScofieldMichael J. Scofield is the main protagonist in the American television series Prison Break. He is portrayed by Wentworth Miller. The character first appeared in the series pilot as a man who stages a bank robbery in order to get sent into the prison where his older brother, Lincoln Burrows , is...
, a lead character in the TV series Prison Break, was nicknamed Fish while in prison - Freshmen, the first grade level in high school and college
Acronyms
- FISH (cipher)FISH (cipher)The FISH stream cipher is a fast software based stream cipher using Lagged Fibonacci generators, plus a concept from the shrinking generator cipher. It was published by Siemens in 1993. FISH is quite fast in software and has a huge key length...
(FIbonacci SHrinking), a stream cipher published in 1993 - First Invisible Super Hustler, a prototype reconnaissance aircraft design
- FISh (programming language), an array programming language
- Fish (cryptography)Fish (cryptography)Fish was the Allied codename for any of several German teleprinter stream ciphers used during World War II. Enciphered teleprinter traffic was used between German High Command and Army Group commanders in the field, so its intelligence value was of the highest strategic value to the Allies...
(sometimes FISH), the British codeword for World War II German stream cipher teleprinter secure communications devices - Files transferred over shell protocol, a network protocol that uses Secure Shell (SSH) or Remote Shell (RSH) to transfer files between computers and manage remote files
- Fluorescence in situ hybridization, a technique used in genetics to detect DNA sequences
- Friendly interactive shellFriendly interactive shellThe friendly interactive shell is a Unix shell that focuses on interactive use, discoverability, and user friendliness. The design goal of fish is to give the user a rich set of powerful features in a way that is easy to discover, remember, and use.Released in 2005 under the terms of the GNU...
, a UNIX command shell - First In Still Here (a parody of phrases like First In First Out)
- Forensic Information System for Handwriting, a database of letters which convert handwriting features into mathematical algorithms
Culture
- FISH! philosophyFISH! philosophyThe FISH! philosophy is a workplace management system created by John Christensen. The system was first published as a film, with a spin-off series of books....
, a motivational program for the workplace - Fish (TV series)Fish (TV series)Fish was a spin-off television series of the sitcom Barney Miller. It starred Abe Vigoda as New York Police Department Detective Phil Fish and Florence Stanley as his wife Bernice.- Overview :...
, a 1970s US TV show featuring Detective Phillip Fish - Fish (BBC TV series)Fish (BBC TV series)Fish was a BBC drama series of 2000, starring Paul McGann as an idealistic lawyer who specialised in industrial tribunals. In court, he often came up against a female lawyer, played by Jemma Redgrave. Fish's wife had mysteriously disappeared, leaving him to look after his young son, and he began...
, featuring an idealistic lawyer who specializes in industrial tribunals - The IchthysIchthysIchthys, from Koine Greek: , is the Greek word for "fish"....
or "Jesus fish", a Christian symbol consisting of two intersecting arcs resembling the profile of a fish - "The Fish" (Schindleria Praematurus) is a mostly instrumental rock song by progressive rock band Yes, on their album Fragile (1971)
Miscellaneous uses
- Fish (film)
- "Fish" (Craig Campbell song)Fish (Craig Campbell song)"Fish" is the title of a song co-written and recorded by American country music singer Craig Campbell. It is the second single from his self-titled debut album.-Content:...
, from the album Craig Campbell - Fish & RichardsonFish & RichardsonFish & Richardson P.C. is a national law firm practicing intellectual property law.Fish is the 109th largest firm in the United States. Fish has over 350 attorneys, of which 96 percent are dedicated to intellectual property law. Fish is one of the most sought-after firms for both patent...
, a law firm practicing intellectual property, litigation, and corporate law - PhishPhishPhish is an American rock band noted for its musical improvisation, extended jams, and exploration of music across genres. Formed at the University of Vermont in 1983 , the band's four members – Trey Anastasio , Mike Gordon , Jon Fishman , and Page McConnell Phish is an American rock band...
, an American jam band noted for their musical improvisation - PhishingPhishingPhishing is a way of attempting to acquire information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication. Communications purporting to be from popular social web sites, auction sites, online payment processors or IT...
, an Internet crime - Fish, a kind of surfboardSurfboardA surfboard is an elongated platform used in the sport of surfing. Surfboards are relatively light, but are strong enough to support an individual standing on them while riding a breaking wave...
- Fish, a poor chess or poker player—see Glossary of chess, Glossary of poker termsGlossary of poker termsThe following is a glossary of poker terms used in the card game of poker. It supplements the Glossary of card terms. Besides the terms listed here, there are thousands of common and uncommon poker slang terms...
- Fish, sometimes used among American WrestlingWrestlingWrestling is a form of grappling type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. A wrestling bout is a physical competition, between two competitors or sparring partners, who attempt to gain and maintain a superior position...
to refer to a weak athlete - A torpedoTorpedoThe modern torpedo is a self-propelled missile weapon with an explosive warhead, launched above or below the water surface, propelled underwater towards a target, and designed to detonate either on contact with it or in proximity to it.The term torpedo was originally employed for...
, a self-propelled underwater weapon - GhotiGhotiGhoti is a constructed word used to illustrate irregularities in English spelling. It is a respelling of the word fish: i.e., it is supposed to be pronounced...
, a respelling of the word fish made up of similarly-pronounced bits of other words - Fish!Fish!Fish! is a text adventure game by Magnetic Scrolls released in .- Plot :An inter-dimensional terrorist group named the Seven Deadly Fins are threatening to take over the water-world of Hydropolis. It's up to a single Inter-Dimensional Espionage Agent to stop them—as a fish.- Gameplay :The game is a...
, a computer game released by Magnetic Scrolls in 1988 - Fish tapeFish tapeA fish tape is a tool used by electricians to route new wiring through walls and electrical conduit....
, a tool used to route electrical cable in walls and conduits - Fish (Beyond the Black Stump), a platypus who enjoys the odd drink
- Fish (Bonnie Pink song), from Let Go (Bonnie Pink album)
- Fish (card game), a simple card game
- Fish (fry), the eggs and sperm released or deposited, usually into water, by aquatic animals