Sam Fisher

Sam Fisher or Samuel Fisher may refer to:

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Sam Fisher (footballer)

Sam Fisher (born 10 July 1982) is an Australian rules footballer who plays for the St Kilda Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

Early life

Between the ages of 17 and 19 Fisher was a promising junior golfer and played off a handicap of 1. He won the Riverland Tyre and Mag Boxing Day Classic four times, twice with his father Terry and twice with his brother Ben. However, Fisher gave away a possible career in golf for AFL football.

Fisher began playing Australian rules in South Australia with West Adelaide, where he was first identified by AFL scouts at the age of 21.

AFL career

The versatile defender was selected as pick number 55 in the 2003 AFL Draft. He made his debut in 2004 following some injuries to other key defenders

In 2005, Fisher took a major step in his career and improved dramatically to hold down a regular spot in the Saints' defence. He generally played on the third best forward of the opposition and began to provide terrific run from the half-back line. In 2006 he played every match and had up 421 disposals for the season. His run and carry from the half-back line was critical to St Kilda's 6th-place finish and he finished third in the St Kilda best and fairest award.

Sam Fisher (Splinter Cell)

Samuel "Sam" Fisher is a fictional character and the protagonist of the Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell series of video games developed by Ubisoft as well as a series of tie-in novels endorsed by Tom Clancy. His full name is first seen in Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell, the first game of the series, when he was using the computer in the V-22 Osprey to encrypt his home call. Fisher was originally voiced by veteran actor Michael Ironside in the first five installments of the series. Eric Johnson assumed the voice role in 2013 with the release of Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist.

Biography

Early life and background

Lieutenant Commander Samuel Fisher, USN (Ret.), is a former member of Third Echelon, a top-secret sub-branch within the National Security Agency (NSA) and currently the commander of Fourth Echelon, a newly created covert special operations & counter-terrorism unit answerable only to the President of the United States. Fisher was born in 1957 in the affluent Baltimore suburbs of Towson, Maryland. While not much is known of his childhood, it is known that Sam attended a military boarding school after the death of his parents when he was a child until being accepted into the United States Naval Academy, where he graduated from in 1977 with a bachelor's degree in Political Science and commissioned as an Ensign in the U.S. Navy. Soon after, his personnel file was flagged for recruitment by the Navy SEALs, which he joined after passing their grueling selection process and training program.