Jäger

Jäger (German pronunciation: [ˈjɛːɡɐ] as in Yeager) is the German word for "hunter", and also a common German surname.

The various meanings of Jäger, Jaeger and Jager include:

Technology

• JägerMonkey, the next-generation JavaScript 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 ophthalmologis
• 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
• Gisela Jäger, German rower
• Gustav Jäger (naturalist) (1832–1917), German naturalist and doctor
• Gustav Jaeger (painter) (1808–1871), German painter
• 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 in The Elder Scrolls universe
• Karl Jaeger, a playable character in the game Alien Swarm
• 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 and 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
• Jäger Sucher, German for hunter searcher, clandestine government group of werewolf hunters in the Night Creature series by Lori Handeland
• Jaegers, a fictional type of giant piloted robots (mecha) that fight alien monsters called Kaiju in the 2013 film Pacific Rim
• Eren Jäger/Eren Yeager, protagonist in the Attack on Titan manga and anime
• Jaeger, a tank-like character of the Teknos faction in The Unholy War
• Jaegers, a group in the Akame ga Kill! manga and anime

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

• De Jager
• Yeager
• Jagger (disambiguation)
• Jágr (surname)