Tiger (disambiguation)
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A tiger is a land mammal, usually with stripes.
Tiger may also be:
[edit] Culture
- Tiger (zodiac), One of the animals in the Chinese zodiac calendar.
[edit] People
- Tiger Woods, Professional golf superstar.
- Tiger Ali Singh, professional wrestler.
- Tiger Jeet Singh, professional wrestler and father of Tiger Ali Singh.
- Tiger Cup, now named the ASEAN Football Championship, a football (soccer) tournament in Southeast Asia
- The cricketer 'Tiger' Bill O'Reilly (cricketer).
- Tiger Hutchence, daughter of late INXS frontman Michael Hutchence and the late Paula Yates. Adopted by Bob Geldof
[edit] Sports Teams
- Balmain Tigers, Australian rugby league
- Bangladesh national cricket team
- Beijing Tigers, Chinese baseball
- Castleford Tigers, English rugby league
- Detroit Tigers, American baseball
- Hamilton Tiger-Cats, Canadian football
- Hamilton Tigers, Canadian ice hockey
- Hanshin Tigers, Japanese baseball
- Ipatinga Futebol Clube, Brazilian football (soccer) team
- Lakeland Flying Tigers, American baseball (Minor League Affiliate of the aforementioned Detroit Tigers)
- Leicester Tigers, English rugby union
- Medicine Hat Tigers, Canadian junior ice hockey
- Melbourne Tigers, Australian basketball
- Sinupret Ice Tigers, German ice hockey
- Tasmanian Tigers, Australian cricket
- Wests Tigers, Australian rugby league
- Cincinnati Bengals, National Football League
- Hull City A.F.C., English football (soccer) team
- Richmond Football Club, Australian rules football
[edit] College Mascots
Several colleges have the tiger as their mascot:
- Auburn University
- Clemson University
- Grambling State University
- Jackson State University
- Louisiana State University
- University of Missouri–Columbia
- University of the Pacific
- Princeton University
- Rochester Institute of Technology
- Towson University
- Stillman College
- University of Santo Tomas
- University of Memphis
- Wittenberg University
- Hampden-Sydney College
[edit] Vehicles
- F-11 Tiger aircraft
- HMS Tiger, twelve ships of the Royal Navy
- Eurocopter Tiger, a European attack helicopter.
- Sunbeam Tiger, a muscle car.
- A model of motorcycle made by Triumph Motorcycles.
- The name of a German tank, used during World War II. See Tiger I and Tiger II.
- Another name for the F-5 Freedom Fighter.
- South Devon Railway Eagle class, a South Devon Railway 4-4-0ST steam locomotive
[edit] Entertainment
- Tiger (comic strip), a comic strip by Bud Blake
- Tiger (1997 film), a German family comedy movie
- Tiger (1979 film), an Indian (Telugu) movie
- Tiger (1994 film), a 1994 Canadian short film
- Tiger (1997 documentary), a 1997 documentary by the National Wildlife Federation]
- Tiger (rock band), a mid-'70s rock band with Big Jim Sullivan
- Tiger (band), a late '90s Britpop band
- Tiger (musician), a Jamaican dancehall musician
- Tiger (Maplestory), the number one ranked player in Maplestory Global (has been temporarily banned twice).
- Tiger (guitar), a guitar used by Jerry Garcia.
- The Tigers, a popular Japanese band from the Group Sounds era.
- The Tigers (band), a New Zealand pop/rock band 1979–1982
- Kamen Rider Tiger, a character from Kamen Rider Ryuki.
- Tiger Aspect Productions, a UK television production company
- Tiger Lily Records, a record label
- Tiger Style Records, a record label
- Tigerbeat6, a record label
- Tigersushi Records, a record label
- Tigers' Quest, a 2006 American audio drama.
- Puli, Tiger in its English dub, a 1985 Indian (Telugu) action movie
- Bewafa Qatil, a 1932 Indian silent film
- Da xu hai, Tiger in its English dub, a 1973 Chinese-language film
- The nickname of the British pop singer Tom Jones (singer)
- The nickname of Taiwanese martial artist Ho-Chung Tao
- Tiger, a character in the 1986 animated movie An American Tail
- Tigger, a tiger character in Winnie the Pooh
- Tigar, a 1978 Serbo-Croatian language film made in Yugoslavia
[edit] Corporations
- Tiger Aircraft, an aircraft manufacturer based in West Virginia, USA
- Tiger Airways, a regional airline based in Singapore
- Tiger Corporation, a Japanese small appliance maker
- Tiger Direct, an online retailer of computer items based in Florida, USA
- Tiger Electronics, a USA-based toys manufacturer
- Tiger Telematics, a former maker of video gaming devices
- ASICS Tiger Corporation, the former name used by the ASICS America corporation
[edit] Math, Science and Technology
- The name for Mac OS X v10.4, an upgrade of the operating system for Apple Macintoshes that was released on April 29, 2005.
- The code name for J2SE 5.0, the version of Java programming language released in 2004.
- Tiger (hash) is a cryptographic hash function.
- Tiger is the name of a line of automatic test equipment produced by Teradyne.
- Tiger is a Pascal-like programming language introduced by Andrew Appel in his book Modern Compiler Implementation.
- TIGER (microbiology), Triangulation Identification for Genetic Evaluation of Risks is a microbiological tool for identifying microbes.
[edit] History
- The nickname of the Royal Leicestershire Regiment
- Tamil Tigers an armed, ethnic secessionist movement on Sri Lanka
[edit] Publications
- Tiger (comic), a Fleetway weekly for boys.
- The Tiger, a leading American high school newspaper, based in South Pasadena, California.
[edit] Other
- Economic Tigers - the name of a country with rapid economic growth, used for South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan (East Asian Tigers) and also for Ireland (the Celtic Tiger)
- City of Tigers, pet name for the city of Oslo
- Tony the Tiger, the mascot of Kellogg's Frosted Flakes (US) or Frosties (UK) cereal
- A Tiger for Malgudi is an award wining novel by R.K. Narayan
- Tiger (Monster Rancher) a species of fictional monster in Monster Rancher
- TIGER/Line® Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing, a mapping format used by the United States Census Bureau
- Tiger Beer, a lager brewed and bottled by Asia Pacific Breweries Limited, Singapore
- Tiger Stripe Camouflage is a type of camouflage pattern used by the armed forces of South Vietnam and by special forces units from the United States, Australia, and New Zealand during the Vietnam War in the form of camouflage combat uniforms. The Tiger Stripe camouflage pattern involves black tiger-like stripes on a green and brown background.
- Tiger 'Best Bitter', an ale brewed by the Everards brewery in Leicestershire, England
- Tiger Cub, a rank in the Cub Scouts (Boy Scouts of America)
- Onitsuka Tiger, an athletic shoe brand from ASICS