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Fish are vertebrates with gills that live in water. Related concepts include:
Fish may also refer to:
People
- Albert Fish (1870-1936), U.S. serial killer and cannibal, electrocuted
- Eric Fish, singer in Subway To Sally and solo artist
- Fred Fish, U.S. computer programmer
- Ginger Fish, drummer for the band Marilyn Manson
- Hamilton Fish, any of several American politicians
- Mardy Fish (born 1981), U.S. professional tennis player
- Matt Fish (born 1969), U.S. basketball player
- Michael Fish (born 1944), BBC weather presenter
- Michael Fish (fashion designer) UK fashion designer
- Nicky Fish (born 1984), Welsh footballer
- Simon Fish, 16th century Protestant reformer
- Stanley Fish (born 1938), literary theorist
- Stuyvesant Fish (1851-1923), U.S. railroad executive
As a nickname
- Fish (Derek Dick), original singer in the British rock group Marillion
- Philip Fisher, former drummer from Fishbone
- Fish Leong, nickname of Jasmine Leong, a Malaysian singer
- Barry Melton, guitarist
- Chris Squire, bassist in the British progressive rock band Yes
- Jon Fishman, drummer in the American jam band Phish
- The Fish is a common nickname for ska-punk band Reel Big Fish.
- "The Fish" is an often-used nickname for the Florida Marlins and the Miami Dolphins (despite the fact the dolphin is actually a marine mammal, not a fish).
Acronyms
- FISH (cipher) (FIbonacci SHrinking), a stream cipher published in 1993
- FISh programming language, an array programming language
- Fish (cryptography) (sometimes FISH), the British codeword for World War II German stream cipher teleprinter secure communications devices
- Files transferred over shell protocol
- Fluorescent in situ hybridization, a technique used in genetics to detect DNA sequences
- Friendly interactive shell, 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! Philosophy, a motivational program for the workplace
- Fish (television), a 1970s US TV show featuring Detective Phillip Fish
- Fish (BBC TV series), featuring an idealistic lawyer who specializes in industrial tribunals
- The Ichthys or "Jesus fish", a Christian symbol consisting of two intersecting arcs resembling the profile of a fish
Literature
- The Fish (poem), a poem by Elizabeth Bishop
- Fish : a memoir of a boy in a man's prison, a novel by T.J. Parsell
Locations
- Fish river, several places,
Miscellaneous uses
- Fish & Richardson, a law firm practicing intellectual property, litigation, and corporate law.
- Go Fish, a card game for children
- Canadian Fish, a card game sometimes known as literature.
- Phish, an American rock band
- Phishing, an Internet crime
- Fish, a kind of surfboard.
- Fish can refer to a poor chess or poker player—see List of chess terms, List of poker terms.
- Fish is sometimes used among American wrestlers to refer to a weak athlete.
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