Jäger

Jäger (singular der Jäger, plural die Jäger; German pronunciation: [ˈjɛːɡɐ] as in Yeager) is the German word for "hunter", and also a common [[German surnamed" (plural "die Jagden") for "the chaser", and "jagen" for "to stalk" or "to hunt". In English it is often written with the ("double") plural Jägers, or as jaeger (pl. jaegers) or jagger (pl. jagers) to reflect the original "ae" combination that was replaced in German by the umlaut ä, a letter which does not exist in the English alphabet.

The various meanings of Jäger, Jaeger and Jager include:

Technology

• JägerMonkey, the next-generation latice engine introduced in Firefox 4

Military

• Jäger (military), a German military term for rifle-armed infantry, akin to Army Rangers
• Jäger Movement, Finnish volunteers trained in Germany as Jägers during World War I
• The Jäger March, a Finnish honorary march of many army detachments
• Some early flintlock rifles were known as Jäger rifles, see German military rifles
• See List of Jäger units for Jäger units in various national armies

People

• Adolf Jäger, German amateur football (soccer) player
• Alvin Jaeger, politician
• Andrea Jaeger (born 1965), American tennis player and humanitarian
• August Jaeger, English music publisher of German extraction
• Edmund Jaeger, US biologist
• Eduard Jäger von Jaxtthal, Austrian ophthalmologist
• Eric Jager, professor in the department of English at University of California, Los Angeles
• Finne Jager, trance music DJ from the Netherlands
• Frank Jæger, Danish poet
• Frans Maurits Jaeger (1877–1945) Dutch chemist
• Frederick Jaeger, German actor
• Friedrich Gustav Jaeger, resistance fighter in Nazi Germany and a member of the July 20 Plot
• Gerrit de Jager, Dutch comic-artist
• Gustav Jäger, German naturalist, physician and hygienist
• Hans Jæger, Norwegian writer, philosopher and political activist
• Hermann Jaeger, Swiss oenologist
• Jacob de Jager, general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• Jan Kees de Jager, IT entrepreneur and politician in the Netherlands
• Jaromír Jágr (born 1972), Czech ice hockey player
• Jeff Jaeger, former American football place-kicker
• Jonathan Jäger, French-born German professional footballer
• Karl Jäger, Swiss-born Nazi leader, commander of the SD Einsatzkommando 3
• Lorenz Jaeger, German prelate of the Roman Catholic Church
• Marike Jager, singer, guitarist and composer from the Netherlands
• Marilyn Jager Adams, researcher in the areas of cognition and education
• Martin Jágr (born 1979), Czech rugby union player
• Maximilian Jaeger, Swiss Minister in Budapest from 1936 to 1944
• Michael Jäger, German artist
• Peta Taylor (married name Mary Jaegar), English cricketer
• Professor Jager, stage name of Scott Folsom, co-founder of the League of STEAM
• Richard Jaeger, German politician
• Robert E. Jager, US composer
• Stefan Jäger, painter
• Thomas Jäger, German racing driver
• Tom Jager, US freestyle swimmer
• Werner Jaeger, German classicist
• Werner Jäger, Austrian ice speed skater

Animals

• Jaeger, the North American name for the smaller species of the skua family of seabirds
• Jaeger's Anetia, a species of butterfly in the Danaidae family

Fictional

• Gray Fox (Frank Jaeger), a character in the Metal Gear series
• Jagar Tharn, a fictional character of The Elder Scrolls universe
• Felix Jaeger, a fictional character in the Gotrek and Felix series
• Jägermonsters, a fictional race from the Girl Genius comics
• Gen. Radi Jaeger, a fictional villain in the video game Valkyria Chronicles
• The Strong Jaeger, a red and yellow robot with a signature J on his chest appearing in the videos of songs of the same name in the beatmania IIDX music games
• Jäger, the field-name of the first and most basic of the Southern forces in the video and board game series Heavy Gear
• Jaegers, small steampunk-style attack bots used by Nemesis in City of Heroes & City of Villains
• Each of the "Invisible 9" units of the manga and anime series Pumpkin Scissors is nicknamed using "Jäger"; the soldiers of the most prominent unit, 901 are known as Gespenst Jäger
• The Bishop's Jaegers (1932), a comic novel by Thorne Smith
• Pilgrim Jäger, a Japanese manga series
• Jaeger Corps in The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky

Other

• Armi Jager, an Italian firearms manufacturer
• Eheim, a German company that makes aquarium heaters under the name Jäger
• Hunter Jaegers, an Australian netball team
• Jaeger (automobile), an automobile built in Belleville, Michigan by the Jaeger Motor Car Company
• Jaeger (clothing), a United Kingdom clothing retailer
• Jaegers, an obsolete term for a union suit (or "woolly combinations") first popularised by the Jaeger clothing company and named after Gustav Jäger
• Jaeger 70, a hybrid of two American species of grape
• Jaeger, a trademark owned by Magneti Marelli
• Jaeger-LeCoultre, a maker of watches
• Jager (plural Jagers), the Dutch word for hunter
• Jager, the name of the blue armor upgrade in the Zoids series
• Jager, an alternative name for Eger in Hungary
• Jägerschnitzel, a German dish of fried meat cutlets with mushroom gravy
• Jägermeister, a German liquor
• Jägerbomb, a cocktail consisting of one shot of Jägermeister dropped into a glass of an energy drink
• Jagertee, a drink made by mixing rum into black tea
• Kerberos Panzer Jäger, a 2006 Japanese radio drama
• Rote Jäger, a short-lived German military football club active during World War II
• Jäger (or Jaeger), a release skill performed on the horizontal bar or uneven bars in gymnastics

See also

• Yeager
• Jagger (disambiguation)