Tiger (disambiguation)
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A tiger is a land mammal, usually with stripes.
Tiger may also refer to:
- Tiger (zodiac), one of the animals in the Chinese zodiac calendar
- Tony the Tiger, the mascot of Kellogg's Frosted Flakes (US) or Frosties (UK) cereal
- Tiger economy, that of a country with rapid economic growth
- Tiger Beer, a lager brewed and bottled by Asia Pacific Breweries Limited, Singapore
- Tiger Bitter, an ale brewed by the Everards brewery in Leicestershire, England
- Tiger Cub, a rank in Cub Scouting
- Tamil Tigers, an armed, ethnic secessionist movement of Sri Lanka
- TIGER, a mapping format used by the United States Census Bureau
- Tiger, Georgia, a town in the United States
[edit] Sports
- Tigers, a (nick)name of several sports teams
- Onitsuka Tiger, an athletic shoe brand from ASICS
- "Little Tiger"/"Big Tiger" (also called "Little Cat/"Big Cat"), non-standard poker hands
- Tiger Cup, a football (soccer) tournament in Southeast Asia now named the ASEAN Football Championship
[edit] People
- Tiger (porn star), porn star
- Tiger Ali Singh, professional wrestler
- Tiger Jeet Singh, professional wrestler and father of Tiger Ali Singh
- Tiger Onitsuka, a Japanese jazz drummer
- Tiger Woods, famous professional golfer
- Bill O'Reilly (cricketer), nicknamed "Tiger"
- Tom Jones (singer), nicknamed "Tiger"
- Ho-Chung Tao, nickname "Tiger", Taiwanese martial artist
- Georges Clemenceau, the WWI-era French Prime Minister known commonly as "The Tiger"
- Dariusz Michalczewski, nickname "Tiger", the former light heavyweight boxer from Poland.
[edit] Vehicles
- Tiger I and Tiger II, German tanks used during World War II
- F-11 Tiger aircraft
- HMS Tiger, twelve ships of the Royal Navy
- Eurocopter Tiger, a European attack helicopter
- Leyland Tiger bus
- Sunbeam Tiger, a muscle car
- F-5 Freedom Fighter or "Tiger"
- Tiger, a model of motorcycle made by Triumph Motorcycles
- Tiger, one locomotive of the South Devon Railway Eagle class
[edit] Music
- Tiger (band), a late '90s Britpop band
- Tiger (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
- "Tiger Rag," a traditional jazz song
- Tiger (reggae artist), a legendary dancehall reggae toaster
[edit] Fiction and entertainment
- Tiger (comic), a British comic magazine
- Tiger (comic strip), a comic strip by Bud Blake
- Kamen Rider Tiger, a character from Kamen Rider Ryuki
- Tiger Aspect Productions, a UK television production company
- Tigger, a tiger character in Winnie the Pooh
- Tigar, a 1978 Serbo-Croatian language film made in Yugoslavia
- Tiger (Monster Rancher), a species of fictional monster in Monster Rancher
- The Tiger, villain in Meet - The Tiger!, first book in the Simon Templar ("The Saint") series
- Tiger Tiger, a nightclub in London, site of 2007 London car bombs
- Tiger (book by J. Stone), the first book in the Five ancestors series
- The Fox And Tiger Show, a British radio programme
- Tiger Beat,a teen fan magazine
[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] Mathematics, science and technology
- Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger, an operating system for Apple Macintosh computers
- J2SE 5.0 Tiger, a version of the Java programming language released in 2004
- Tiger (cryptography), a cryptographic hash function
- Tiger, a line of automatic test equipment produced by Teradyne
- Example programming language used in Andrew Appel's textbook on Modern Compiler Implementation in ML (ISBN 0-521-58274-1)
[edit] See also
- Tigre
- El Tigre (disambiguation)
- Tyger
- Tiga
- Tigerstripe, a type of camouflage pattern