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
See also: Rifleman
- 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 (1860–1909), English music publisher of German extraction, the "Nimrod" of Edward Elgar's Enigma Variations (1898–99)
- 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
- Peter Jäger, German arachnologist
- 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
- Jager, a playable defensive character in the asymmetric multiplayer modes of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege. His name is a result of German affiliation with GSG 9 and his roaming or 'hunting' play-style.
- 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
- Franz Jaeger, a fictional german bank box company which features in the danish comedy film series, the Olsen gang
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
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