Archer (disambiguation)

The Simple English Wiktionary has a definition for: archer.

An archer is a person who practices archery, using a bow to shoot arrows.

Archer or Archers may also refer to:

People and fictional characters

  • Archer (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters
  • Archer (surname), including a list of people and fictional characters
  • Baron Archer, an extinct title in the Peerage of Great Britain

Places

Antarctica

  • Archer Glacier, Graham Land
  • Archer Point, Oates Land
  • Mount Archer (Antarctica), Oates Land
  • Archer Peak, Victoria Land

Australia

  • Archer, Northern Territory, a suburb of Palmerston
  • Archer Creek, west of Sydney Harbour
  • Archer River, Cape York Peninsula
  • Mount Archer, Queensland (Rockhampton Region), Queensland
  • Mount Archer, Queensland (Somerset Region), Queensland

United States

  • Archer, Florida, a city
  • Archer, Idaho, an unincorporated community
  • Archer, Illinois, an unincorporated community
  • Archer, Iowa, a city
  • Archer, Nebraska, an unincorporated community
  • Archer, Nevada, a former mining camp
  • Archer, Tennessee, an unincorporated community
  • Archer, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
  • Archer County, Texas
  • Archer Key, an island in Florida
  • Archer Township, Harrison County, Ohio

Arts and entertainment

Films

  • "The Archers", the British film-making partnership of Powell and Pressburger
  • Archer (film), a 1985 Australian TV film about the horse Archer (see Sports section)
  • The Archer (film), a 1982 Finnish drama film
  • The Archer, a 2005 film directed by John Palmer
  • The Archer, a 2017 drama film directed by Valerie Weiss

Fictional characters

  • Archer (character class), an archetype found in many fantasy fiction and role-playing games
  • Archer (DC Comics), a fictional character
  • Archer (Fate/stay night), a character in Fate/stay night media
  • Archer (Marvel Comics), an X-Factor character in Marvel Comics
  • Archer, a titular character from the Valiant Comics book Archer & Armstrong

Statues and sculptures

  • The Archer (Lepcke), a statue in Poland
  • The Archer (Moore), an abstract sculpture
  • The Archer, a statue by Eric Aumonier at East Finchley tube station, London

Television

Other arts and entertainment

  • Archers (Kirchner), a 1935-1937 painting by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
  • The Archers, a long-running BBC Radio 4 soap opera
  • The Archers (musical group), a Christian music band
  • "The Archer" (song), a 2019 song by Taylor Swift

Companies

  • Archer Capital, an Australian private equity firm
  • Archer Mobile, a mobile technology company
  • Archer Aviation, an American electric aircraft company

Military

  • Archer (tank destroyer), Self Propelled 17pdr, Valentine, Mk I, a British self'propelled anti-tank gun
  • AA-11 Archer, NATO reporting name of the Vympel R-73 air-to-air missile
  • Archer Artillery System, a partnership to develop a self-propelled artillery system for Sweden and Norway
  • Operation Archer, a Canadian Forces operation supporting Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan
  • Archer (ship), various naval ships
  • Archer class (disambiguation), various ship classes

Sports

  • Archer (horse) (1856–1872), Australian racehorse that won the first two Melbourne Cups in 1861 and 1862
  • Archer Grand Prix cycle race, international cycle race held annually in Britain for over 50 years
  • Archers Lacrosse Club, American lacrosse team in the Premier Lacrosse League
  • Bydgoszcz Archers, American football team from Bydgoszcz, Poland

Transportation

  • Archer (automobile), a British cyclecar
  • 35th/Archer station, a Chicago Transit Authority station
  • Piper Archer, Piper PA-28 Cherokee airplane; discontinued in 2009
  • Rue des Archers, a street in Lyon, France
  • Archer Avenue, outside Chicago, Illinois, United States

Other uses

  • "The Archer", another name for the constellation Sagittarius or the astrological sign of the same name
  • Archer High School, a public high school in Lawrenceville, Georgia, United States
  • Archer (typeface), a slab serif style digital typeface
  • Airborne Real-time Cueing Hyperspectral Enhanced Reconnaissance (ARCHER), an aerial imaging system
  • Advanced Research Computing High End Resource (ARCHER), a UK supercomputer - see Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre