49er or Forty-Niner most often refers to: *A miner or other person that took part in the 1849

California Gold Rush The California Gold Rush (1848–1855) was a gold rush that began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. The news of gold brought approximately 300,000 people to California fro ...

San Francisco 49ers The San Francisco 49ers (also written as the San Francisco Forty-Niners) are a professional American football team based in the San Francisco Bay Area. The 49ers compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the league's National ...

, an American football team 49er or Forty-Niner may also refer to:

Sports

* Charlotte 49ers, athletic teams of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte *

Long Beach State 49ers Long Beach State athletics, or simply Beach athletics (previously known as the 49ers), are the athletic teams that represent California State University, Long Beach. Teams compete in 19 sports at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NC ...

, former official and oft-used informal nickname for the athletic teams of California State University, Long Beach * Yuba 49ers, athletic teams of

Yuba College Yuba College () is a public community college in Marysville, Yuba County, California. It is part of the Yuba Community College District. The college district has an extension campus in Yuba City, California. Yuba College is one of two colleges ...

49er (dinghy) The 49er and 49er FX is a two-handed skiff-type high-performance sailing dinghy. The two crew work on different roles with the helm making many tactical decisions, as well as steering, and the crew doing most of the sail control. Both of the cr ...

, an Olympic class of racing dinghy * Forty Niner (horse), American Thoroughbred racehorse * TKS 49ers, German basketball team at the southwest border of Berlin

Music

49ers (band) 49ers were an Italian house and Eurodance act, featuring producers and DJs Gianfranco Bortolotti, Luca Cittadini, Diego Leoni and Pieradis Rossini with vocalist Ann-Marie Smith. They were named after the San Francisco 49ers American football tea ...

, an Italian Italo house and Eurodance project * ''49ers'' (album) * The 49ers, an American hip-hop duo

Film

* ''The Forty-Niners'' (1932 film), an American Western film directed by John P. McCarthy * ''The Forty-Niners'' (1954 film), an American Western film directed by Thomas Carr

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49er Fire The 49er Fire was a large and destructive wildfire in September 1988 in the U.S. state of California's Nevada County and Yuba County. After igniting on the morning of September 11, when a homeless schizophrenic man accidentally set brush alight ...

, a wildfire in September 1988 in the California's Nevada County and Yuba County * 49er flapjack, a sourdough crepe * UP 49ers, an engineering association in the

University of the Philippines The University of the Philippines (UP; fil, Pamantasan ng Pilipinas Unibersidad ng Pilipinas) is a state university system in the Philippines. It is the country's national university, as mandated by Republic Act No. 9500 (UP Charter of 200 ...

* '' Top 10: The Forty-Niners'', a novel by Alan Moore and Gene Ha * The Forty-Niners, a group of shōjo manga artists also known as the Year 24 Group * "The 49ers", a group of Cathay Pacific Airways pilots fired on 9 July 2001 * 49er, the lowest initiated rank in a

Triad Triad or triade may refer to: * a group of three Businesses and organisations * Triad (American fraternities), certain historic groupings of seminal college fraternities in North America * Triad (organized crime), a Chinese transnational orga ...

* A real ale brewed by the

Ringwood Brewery Ringwood Brewery is a small brewery on the edge of the New Forest in Hampshire, England, near the Dorset border. It produces mainly cask ales and some bottled beers. The emblem for the brewery is a boar. There are records from the early 19th ce ...

with a strength, appropriately, of 4.9% * A member of the

49th Battalion, CEF The 49th Battalion (Edmonton Regiment), CEF, was an infantry battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the Great War. History The 49th Battalion was authorized on 7 November 1914 and embarked for Great Britain on 3 June 1915. It dise ...

* The ''Forty Niner'' or ''49'er'', a streamliner passenger train between San Francisco and Chicago operated by the

Union Pacific Railroad The Union Pacific Railroad , legally Union Pacific Railroad Company and often called simply Union Pacific, is a freight-hauling railroad that operates 8,300 locomotives over routes in 23 U.S. states west of Chicago and New Orleans. Union Paci ...

* Another name for Arsenal F.C.'s " Invincibles" who went 49 league games unbeaten * ''

Miner 2049er ''Miner 2049er'' is a platform game created by Bill Hogue that was released in 1982 by Big Five Software. It was developed for the Atari 8-bit family and widely converted to other systems. The title "Miner 2049er" evokes a 21st-century take on th ...

'', a 1982 video game that reimagined the name

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