A surveyor (land surveyor) is a professional who determines positions on or near the Earth's surface. Surveyor may also refer to: Professions and their activities Marine surveyor or "ship surveyor", someone who inspects and examines ships Quantity surveyor, someone who controls costs on construction projects Pollster, someone who conducts surveys or opinion polls Surveyor General, an official responsible for government surveying in a specific country or territory Ships NOAAS Surveyor (S 132), a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration survey ship in service from 1960 to 1995 or 1996 USC&GS Surveyor, the name of more than one ship of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey , an armed steamer in commission in the United States Navy from 1917 to 1919 Other uses Surveyor (typeface), a Didone classification serif typeface Surveyor, Pennsylvania, a community in the United States The Surveyors, a 1972 Swiss film Surveyor magazine, a British professional weekly Surveyor program, a series of unmanned spaceflights to the Moon See also Survey (disambiguation)