Outside of academia, an applied mathematician is often called an analyst.
Goes to show, you learn something new every day.
I would have called an applied mathematician an accountant.
However, there are many people out there with the word “analyst” in their job title who are not applied mathematicians.
And inside academia, an applied mathematician is often called a theoretical physicist.
A commutative algebraist is not an algebraist who commutes. (Not original with me.)
Language means what it means, not what some language-nazi wants it to mean. However it should be pointed out that not every kind of mathematics is applied gets to be called applied math. I have, for example, written papers that apply math to computer science and one or two to linguistics but since they do not involve partial differential equations, no one would say I did applied math.
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Actually, my Dad went through Oxford in Applied Mathematics, and said that at the time that was very close to a branch of physics.
Later on, when computers started to become more prevalent, he got into Computer Science and teaching programming. 
Very true. In fact you can get a job as an ‘analyst’ with the state of California with just about any bachelor’s degree. I’m guessing it’s a report writing job.
And a tip of the hat to DanBlather for the laugh.