Tiger (disambiguation)
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A tiger is a predatory mammal.
Tiger may also refer to:
Other animals
- Tasmanian tiger, the Thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus), an extinct Australian marsupial unrelated to true tigers
- Saber-tooth tiger, a common name for several unrelated prehistoric mammals (see there)
- Tiger butterflies, the milkweed butterfly tribe Danaini, especially subtribe Danaina and genera
- Danaus (genus) (tigers, monarchs and queens)
- Ideopsis (glassy tigers, Southeast Asian wood- and tree nymphs)
- Parantica (tigers)
- Tirumala (genus) (blue tigers)
- Tiger moths, the family Arctiidae
- Tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus)
- Tiger snake (Notechis spp.)
Plants
- Tiger lotus (Nymphaea lotus)
People
Given name or nickname
Athletes
- Tiger Woods (born 1975), American golfer
- Tiger Flowers (1895–1927), African-American middleweight boxing champion
- Tiger Jack Fox (1907–1954), American light heavyweight boxer
- Tiger Greene (born 1962), former National Football League player
- Tiger Lance (1940–2010), South African cricketer
- Tiger Mangweni (born 1980), South African rugby union player
- Dariusz Michalczewski (born 1968), Polish-German boxer
- Bill O'Reilly (cricketer) (1905–1992), Australian cricketer
- Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi (1941–2011), Indian cricketer
- Jock Shaw (1912–2000), Scottish footballer
- Tiger Ali Singh (born 1973), Indo-Canadian wrestler
- Tiger Jeet Singh (born 1948), Indo-Canadian wrestler and father of Tiger Ali Singh
- Tiger Smalls (born 1969), former featherweight boxing champion
- Tiger Smith (1886–1979), English cricketer
- Tiger Stevenson (1907–?), English motorcycle speedway racer
- Tiger Williams (born 1954), Canadian former National Hockey League player
Musicians
- Tiger (musician) (born 1960), Jamaican dancehall musician
- Tiger Onitsuka (born 1998), Japanese jazz drummer
Artists
- Jerome Tiger (1941–1967), Seminole-Muscogee Creek artist
- Johnny Tiger, Jr. (born 1940), Seminole-Muscogee Creek artist
Others
- Georges Clemenceau (1841–1929), French Prime Minister, commonly known as "The Tiger"
- William "Tiger" Dunlop (1792–1848), army and militia officer, surgeon, Canada Company official, author and politician
- Tiger Haynes (1914–1994), American actor and musical performer
- Tiger Memon (born 1960), Indian gangster
Surname
- Dick Tiger (1929–1971), Nigerian boxer
- Lionel Tiger (born 1937), anthropologist
Places
- Tiger, Arizona, a ghost town
- Tiger, Georgia, a town
- Tiger, Washington, an unincorporated community
- Tiger Mountain, Washington
- Tiger Lake (disambiguation), two lakes in Minnesota
In the military
Units
- Tiger Division (disambiguation), various military units
- Tigers, nickname of the 3rd Division (Singapore)
- Tigers, nickname of the 152d Fighter Squadron of the Arizona Air National Guard
- Tiger Force, a small American special operations force in the Vietnam War
- Tiger Force (air), a British Second World War long-range heavy bomber force formed in 1945
- Tigers Militia, the military wing of the National Liberal Party during the Lebanese Civil War
Land vehicles
- Tiger I, a German World War II heavy tank
- Tiger II, a German World War II heavy tank; successor of the Tiger I
- Tiger or Tigr, nickname for the Russian GAZ-2330
- Tiger or Tigr, nickname for the Russian GAZ-2975
Aircraft
- Grumman F-11 Tiger, a US Navy fighter of the 1950s and 1960s
- Northrop F-5 Tiger II, a light supersonic fighter
- Eurocopter Tiger, European attack helicopter
Ships
- HMS Tiger, various ships of the British Royal Navy
- USS Tigress, various United States Navy ships
- SMS Tiger (1887), a torpedo ram cruiser of the Austro-Hungarian Navy
- HNoMS Tor (1939), a Royal Norwegian Navy destroyer captured and salvaged by the Germans in World War II and renamed Tiger
- Tiger-class cruiser, last cruiser class of the Royal Navy
- Tiger-class fast attack craft, a post-World War II class of Bundesmarine (German Federal Navy) fast attack craft
Other
- Operation Tiger, a 1941 World War II convoy; one of the Malta Convoys
- Exercise Tiger (1942), a Second World War Commonwealth military exercise
- Exercise Tiger, a series of large-scale rehearsals for the World War II D-Day invasion
- Operation Tiger (1992), a Croatian Army offensive during the Croatian War of Independence
- Operation Tiger (1994), an Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina action
Transportation
- Leyland Tiger, a bus
- Leyland Tiger (front-engined)
- Sunbeam Tiger, a muscle car
- Sunbeam Tiger (1925), a racing car
- Triumph Tiger, various motorcycles made by the British company Triumph Engineering and its successor Triumph Motorcycles Ltd.
- Tiger Truck, a Chinese light utility truck
- Tiger, the name of South Devon Railway Eagle class locomotive GWR no. 2116
- Tiger, a GWR Firefly Class, broad-gauge locomotive
- two models of the Grumman American AA-5 light aircraft family (AA-5B and AG-5B)
- Siddeley Tiger, an unsuccessful post-First World War British aero engine
Sports
- Tigers (sports teams), various sports teams
- ASEAN Football Championship, an association football tournament of the ASEAN Football Federation, formerly known as the Tiger Cup
- Various poker hands known as big or little Tigers
Arts and entertainment
Music
- Tiger (band), a late-1990s Britpop band
- The Tigers, a 1960s Japanese rock band
- Tiger (1970s band), an early protopunk band
- Tiger (Superette album), 1996
- Tigers (album), by The Dance Party
- Tiger (guitar), used by Jerry Garcia
- "Tiger", a song by ABBA
- "Tiger", a song by Fabian Forte
Films
- Tiger (1979 film), a 1979 Telugu film
- The Tiger (1978 film), a 1978 Yugoslav film
- The Tiger (2005 film), a Malayalam-language film released in 2005
- Tiger (2007 film), a 2007 Bengali film
- The Tiger (2014 film), an upcoming American film
Characters
- Tigger, from Winnie-the-Pooh
- Kamen Rider Tiger, from Kamen Rider Ryuki
- Tiger (DC Comics), kid sidekick of the superhero Judomaster
- The Tiger, villain in Meet the Tiger, the first book in the Simon Templar ("The Saint") series
- Tiger, a cat character from An American Tail movies
- Tiger Ow, character in the Jackie Chan film Project A Part II
- Tiger, a character in Ibn-e-Safi's Imran series - see Imran series characters
- Tiger Jackson, from the video game series Tekken
In print
- The Tiger, a book by John Vaillant
- Tiger (comic strip), by Bud Blake
- Tiger (Fleetway), British comic magazine
- An alternative spelling of The Tyger, a 1794 poem by William Blake
Business
- Tiger Aircraft, a former aircraft manufacturer that was based in West Virginia, USA
- Tiger Airways, a regional airline based in Singapore
- Tiger Airways Australia, a low-cost Australian domestic airline launched in 2007
- Tiger Aspect Productions, a UK television production company formerly known as Tiger Television
- Tiger Brands, a South African packaged goods company
- Tiger Corporation, a Japanese small appliance maker
- Tiger (Danish store), a Danish variety store or price-point retailer chain
- Tiger Electronics, a USA-based toys manufacturer
- Tiger Resources, an Australia-based mining company
- Tiger Telematics, a former maker of video gaming devices
- ASICS Tiger Corporation, the former name used by the ASICS America Corporation
- Tiger Line, a local bus service in Buckinghamshire, England
- Tiger Beer, a lager brewed and bottled by Asia Pacific Breweries Limited, Singapore
Technology and mathematics
- Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (TIGER), a mapping format used by the United States Census Bureau
- Tiger (cryptography), a cryptographic hash function
- Tiger (security software), a Unix security tool
- Mac OS X Tiger, an operating system for Apple Macintosh computers
- Java Platform, Standard Edition Tiger, a version of the Java programming language released in 2004
- Tiger, a line of automatic test equipment produced by Teradyne
- Tiger Software, the previous name of Mondago
Other
- Tiger (Frank Buck album), a 1950 children’s record
- Tiger, one of the animals in the Chinese zodiac
- Tiger (dog), animal actor in the movie A Boy and His Dog and the TV series The Brady Bunch
- Tiger rank (Cub Scouts of America), also known as a Tiger Cub
- Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER), a federal stimulus program included in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
- Tiger Temple, a Buddhist temple in Thailand
- The Tiger (political magazine), Chinese publication
- The Tiger (newspaper), student newspaper
- Tiger economy, description of a country experiencing rapid economic growth
- The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, a separatist organization formerly based in northern Sri Lanka
- Tiger (organisation), a Russian-based opposition pressure group
See also
- El Tigre (disambiguation)
- The Tigers (disambiguation)
- Tiger Tiger (disambiguation)
- Tiga (disambiguation)
- Tigre (disambiguation)
- Tyger (disambiguation)
- Taiga (disambiguation)
- TIGAR
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