Ajax may refer to:

Greek mythology and tragedy

Ajax the Great Ajax () or Aias (; grc, Αἴας, Aíās , ''Aíantos''; archaic ) is a Greek mythological hero, the son of King Telamon and Periboea, and the half-brother of Teucer. He plays an important role, and is portrayed as a towering figur ...

, a Greek mythological hero, son of King Telamon and Periboea *

Ajax the Lesser Ajax ( grc, Αἴας ''Aias'' means "of the earth".) was a Greek mythological hero, son of Oileus, the king of Locris. He was called the "lesser" or "Locrian" Ajax, to distinguish him from Ajax the Great, son of Telamon. He was the leader ...

, a Greek mythological hero, son of Oileus, the king of Locris * ''Ajax'' (play), by the ancient Greek tragedian Sophocles, about Ajax the Great

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

Ajax Duckman ''Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man'' is an American adult animated sitcom that aired on the USA Network from March 5, 1994, through September 6, 1997. It was created and developed by Everett Peck, and is based on characters he created in his 19 ...

, in the animated television series ''Duckman'' * Marvel Comics: ** Ajax the Greater, another name for

Ajak Ajak is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Jack Kirby, Ajak first appeared in '' The Eternals'' #2 (August 1976), he was created by Jack Kirby. The character is usually depicted as a me ...

, one of the Eternals from Marvel Comics ** Ajax the Lesser, another name for Arex, one of the Eternals from Marvel Comics ** Ajax, a member of the Pantheon appearing in Marvel Comics **

Ajax (Francis Fanny) Francis "Fanny" Freeman (also known as Ajax) is a fictional supervillain first appeared in ''Deadpool'' #14 (cover-dated March 1998) and was created by writer Joe Kelly and artist Walter A. McDaniel. Fictional character biography The man know ...

, a fictional supervillain first appearing in ''Deadpool'' #14 *

Martian Manhunter The Martian Manhunter (J'onn J'onzz) is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by writer Joseph Samachson and designed by artist Joe Certa, the character first appeared in the story "The Manhunter from Mars" ...

, a DC Comics superhero called Ajax in Brazil and Portugal * Ajax, a '' Call of Duty: Black Ops 4'' operative * Ajax, from the video game ''

Genshin Impact ''Genshin Impact'' is an action role-playing game developed and published by miHoYo. It was released for Android, iOS, PlayStation 4, and Windows in 2020, on PlayStation 5 in 2021, and is set for release on Nintendo Switch. The game feature ...

Music

A-Jax (band) A-Jax ( ko, 에이젝스, stylized as A-JAX) was a South Korean boy band formed by DSP Media in 2012. Early in their career, the group was known as DSP Boyz but then was changed to A-Jax. The group's final lineup was composed of five members: Hy ...

, a South Korean boy band *

Ajax (band) Ajax is an American, New York-based band, led by female singer Arleen Mitchel. The outfit released the single "Mind the Gap" in 1989, on Wax Trax! Records Wax Trax! Records is an American independent record label based in Chicago. It began a ...

, an electronic music band from New York City * ''Ajax'' (opera), by the French composer Toussaint Bertin de la Doué *

DJ Ajax Adrian Thomas (5 August 1971 – 28 February 2013), better known as DJ Ajax, was an Australian Electronic Dance Music DJ known for playing a wide range of styles, including electro, techno and electroclash. Career Thomas was a radio sho ...

(1971-2013; born Adrian Thomas), an Australian electro mashup DJ *

Lisa Ajax Lisa Kristina Ajax (born 13 August 1998), is a Swedish singer, and winner of '' Idol 2014''. She also participated at Lilla Melodifestivalen 2012 with the song "Allt som jag har". Ajax participated in Melodifestivalen 2016 with the song " My H ...

(born 1998), Swedish singer * "Ajax" (song), a song by Tante Leen, 1969 * Ajax Records, a former North American record company

Other arts and entertainment

* ''Ajax'' (painting), a painting by John Steuart Curry * Ajax (Disney), a fictional company (the Disney equivalent of Looney Tunes' Acme Corporation) *

Ajax Ajax may refer to: Greek mythology and tragedy * Ajax the Great, a Greek mythological hero, son of King Telamon and Periboea * Ajax the Lesser, a Greek mythological hero, son of Oileus, the king of Locris * ''Ajax'' (play), by the ancient Gree ...

, a Superman robot used by Wonder Man to hide his identity

Computing

Ajax (floppy disk controller) The FD1771, sometimes WD1771, is the first in a line of floppy disk controllers produced by Western Digital. It uses single density FM encoding introduced in the IBM 3740. It is packaged in a 40-pin DIP."The FD1771 is a single-chip floppy dis ...

, a floppy disk controller fitted to the Atari STE *

Ajax (programming) Ajax (also AJAX ; short for "Asynchronous JavaScript and XML") is a set of web development techniques that uses various web technologies on the client-side to create asynchronous web applications. With Ajax, web applications can send and retr ...

, Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, a method used in web application development, and a software framework for it

Places

Canada

Ajax (electoral district) Ajax is a federal electoral district in the Durham Region of Ontario. Ajax was created by the 2012 riding redistribution from the portion of Ajax—Pickering consisting of the entire town of Ajax, Ontario, and was legally defined in the 2013 ...

, in the Durham Region of Ontario *

Ajax (provincial electoral district) Ajax is a provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada. It elects one member to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario The Legislative Assembly of Ontario (OLA, french: Assemblée législative de l'Ontario) is the legislative chamber of t ...

, in Ontario *

Ajax, Ontario Ajax (; 2021 population: 126,666) is a town in Durham Region in Southern Ontario, Canada, located in the eastern part of the Greater Toronto Area. The town is named for , a Royal Navy cruiser that served in the Second World War. It is approxima ...

, a town in the Greater Toronto Area

United States

Ajax, Louisiana Ajax is an unincorporated community in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana Louisiana , group=pronunciation (French: ''La Louisiane'') is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States. It is the 20th-smallest by are ...

, an unincorporated community *

Ajax, Missouri Ajax is an extinct town in Stoddard County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. Ajax was founded circa 1819, and named after Ajax Ajax may refer to: Greek mythology and tragedy * Ajax the Great, a Greek mythological hero, son of King Telamon and Pe ...

, a ghost town *

Ajax Peak Ajax Peak is a mountain summit located in San Miguel County of southwest Colorado, United States. It is situated on land managed by Uncompahgre National Forest, and is the iconic landmark visible three miles east of the community of Telluride ...

, a summit near Telluride, Colorado *

Ajax, South Dakota Ajax is an unincorporated community in Pennington County, in the U.S. state of South Dakota. The community was named for Ajax, a hero in Greek mythology A major branch of classical mythology, Greek mythology is the body of myths originall ...

, an unincorporated community *

Ajax, Utah Ajax is a ghost town located in the Rush Valley area of southeastern Tooele County, Utah, United States. The town grew up around a unique department store started in 1869 by a Welsh immigrant named William Ajax. He operated the Ajax Underground ...

, a ghost town *

Ajax, Virginia Ajax is an unincorporated community in Pittsylvania County, in the U.S. state of Virginia Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States, between the Atlan ...

, an unincorporated community *

Ajax, West Virginia Ajax is an unincorporated community located in Mingo County, West Virginia, United States. It was previously known as Himler because it was founded as a company town A company town is a place where practically all stores and housing are owned ...

, an unincorporated community *

Aspen Mountain (Colorado) Aspen Mountain is a mountain summit in the Elk Mountains range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The peak is located in White River National Forest, south-southeast ( bearing 162°) of downtown Aspen in Pitkin County, Colorado, United ...

, also known as Ajax Mountain

Elsewhere

Mount Ajax The Admiralty Mountains (alternatively Admiralty Range) is a large group of high mountains and individually named ranges and ridges in northeastern Victoria Land, Antarctica. This mountain group is bounded by the Ross Sea, the Southern Ocean, an ...

, part of the Admiralty Mountains, Victoria Land, Antarctic *

1404 Ajax 1404 Ajax is a carbonaceous Jupiter trojan from the Greek camp, approximately kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 17 August 1936, by German astronomer Karl Reinmuth at Heidelberg Observatory in southern Germany, and named after the le ...

, an asteroid

People

* Ajax (missionary), Arian missionary who converted the Suevi to Christianity ( 466) * Ajax, pen name of Sidney William Jackson (1873–1946), Australian naturalist and ornithologist * Ajax, nickname of Heinrich Bleichrodt (1909–1977), German World War II U-boat commander

Sport

Association football, soccer

AFC Ajax Amsterdamsche Football Club Ajax (), also known as AFC Ajax, Ajax Amsterdam, or simply Ajax, is a Dutch professional football club based in Amsterdam, that plays in the , the top tier in Dutch football. Historically, Ajax (named after the ...

, a football club in Amsterdam, Netherlands * Ajax Cape Town F.C., a South African football club * Ajax Futebol Clube, a Brazilian football club * Ajax de Ouenzé, a Congolese football club *

FC Ajax Lasnamäe FC Ajax Lasnamäe is an Estonian football (soccer), football club based in Tallinn. They play in the II Liiga East/North zone, the fourth division in Estonian football. The club also has Tallinna FC Ajax (women), women's team, first appearing i ...

, an Estonian football club *

Ajax Orlando Prospects Ajax Orlando Prospects was an American soccer team, founded in 2002. The team was a member of the United Soccer Leagues Premier Development League (PDL), the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, until 2006, when the team left the league a ...

, American soccer team from Orlando, Florida, a.k.a. Ajax America * Ajax America Women, American women's soccer team from California *

Aias Salamina F.C. Aias Salamina Football Club (''Ajax of Salamis'' in English, el, Αίας Σαλαμίνας) is a Greek football club based in Salamina, Salamis Island. The association was founded in 1931. History In the 1960s and 1970s it played in high lea ...

, a football club in Salamina, Greece *

Ajax Sportsman Combinatie The Ajax Sportsman Combinatie, usually known as ASC, is a Dutch football and cricket club, established in 1918 as a merger of the ''Leidsche Cricket- en Football-Club Ajax'' and ''Leidsche Athletiekvereeniging De Sportsman''. Ajax The ''Leidsche ...

, a cricket and football club in Leiden, Netherlands * Rabat Ajax F.C., a Maltese football club *

Unión Ájax Unión Ájax is a Honduran soccer club based in Trujillo, Honduras Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. The republic of Honduras is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El ...

, a football club in Trujillo, Honduras * Voetbal Vereniging Ajax, a Surinamese football club

Other sports

Ajax Kenitra Ajax Kenitra is a futsal club based in Kenitra, Morocco Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlanti ...

, a Moroccan futsal (indoor football) club *

Ajax København Ajax København is a handball club based in southwestern Copenhagen, Denmark, consisting of both a women's and a men's team. As of the 2022-23 season, the women's team compete in Damehåndboldligaen, the highest women's league in Denmark. The m ...

, a Danish handball team *

Ajax (horse) Ajax (1901 – 15 February 1915) was an undefeated French Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 1904 Prix du Jockey Club and Grand Prix de Paris and was an influential sire. Breeding Bred and raced by Edmond Blanc, he was by Flying Fox and out ...

(born 1901), a French Champion racehorse *

Ajax II Ajax was a champion Australian bred Thoroughbred racehorse and sire, who won 18 consecutive races before he was defeated at the odds of 40/1 on, causing a huge racing sensation. He had wins from 5 furlongs (1,000 metres) to 1½ m ...

(born 1934), an Australian Champion racehorse

Military

* , several ships of the Royal Navy * , several ships of the US Navy *

General Dynamics Ajax The Ajax, formerly known as the Scout SV (Specialist Vehicle), is a group of armoured fighting vehicles being developed by General Dynamics UK for the British Army. The Ajax is a development of the ASCOD armoured fighting vehicles used by the ...

, a family of armoured fighting vehicles for the British Army *

Operation Ajax Operation or Operations may refer to: Arts, entertainment and media * ''Operation'' (game), a battery-operated board game that challenges dexterity * Operation (music), a term used in musical set theory * ''Operations'' (magazine), Multi-Man ...

, the 1953 Iranian coup d'état

Transport

Ajax (1906 automobile) The Ajax was a Swiss automobile built from 1906 to 1910. Dr. G. Aigner built his first car in Zürich in 1906, but failed. The remains were taken over by a company led by three directors from New York City, Java and Switzerland. A chain-drive ...

, a Swiss automobile *

Ajax (1913 automobile) The Ajax was a French automobile built by the American Briscoe brothers, Benjamin and Frank, between 1913 and 1919. Originally built in Neuilly, it was a 12 hp cyclecar A cyclecar was a type of small, lightweight and inexpensive car manufact ...

, a French automobile by the American Briscoe brothers * Ajax (1914 automobile), an American automobile by Ajax Motors Co. of Seattle, Washington * Ajax (1921 automobile), an American prototype that was not produced *

Ajax (Nash Motors) The Ajax was an American automobile brand manufactured by the Nash Motors Company of Kenosha, Wisconsin, in 1925 and 1926. The Ajax was produced in the newly acquired Mitchell Motors Company plant in Racine, Wisconsin. In 1926, all Ajax ...

, an automobile brand of Nash Motors, 1925–1926 * ''Ajax'' (locomotive), several train locomotives * Ajax (motorcycle), manufactured in England between 1923 and 1924 * ''Ajax'' (crane barge), a floating crane used to install the Panama Canal locks * ''Ajax'' (ship), various ships *

Ajax GO Station Ajax GO Station is a train and bus station in the GO Transit network located in Ajax, Ontario, Canada. It is a stop on the Lakeshore East line and on the Oshawa/Finch Express bus route. The train platforms lie along the south side of Highway 401 ...

, a train and bus station in Ajax, Ontario, Canada *

Ajax Motors Co. The Ajax Motors Co. of Seattle, Washington, was an automobile company started by George, Frank, and Charles Parker. The company the three men started produced a car available in three different wheelbase lengths and could be had in either right h ...

, an American carmaker, manufacturer of the Ajax (1914 automobile)

Other uses

Ajax (cleaning product) Ajax is a brand of household cleaning products and detergents made by Colgate-Palmolive. The brand is also licensed by Colgate-Palmolive in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. History Colgate-Palmolive introduced Ajax Powdered Clean ...

, a brand of household cleaning products *

AFC Ajax N.V. AFC Ajax NV is mostly known as a football club. Since 17 May 1998 the club is registered as a Naamloze vennootschap (N.V.) listed on the stock exchange Euronext Amsterdam. As a company the club strives to make a profit through ticket sales, as w ...

, a sports company associated with AFC Ajax *

Kanichee Mine The Kanichee Mine, also less commonly known as the Ajax Mine, is an abandoned base metal and precious metal mining, mine, located in the Temagami, Ontario, Temagami region of northeastern Ontario, Canada. It is near the small unincorporated commun ...

, Temagami, Ontario, also known as Ajax Mine * Ajax High School, a public high school in Ajax, Ontario, Canada *

AJAX furnace The AJAX furnace was a modification of the tilting open hearth furnace that used blown oxygen to improve productivity. The process was used in the UK during the 1960s at a time of transition from open hearth to oxygen based steel making. History a ...

, a type of open hearth furnace

Greek mythology and tragedy

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

Music

Other arts and entertainment

Computing

Places

Canada

United States

Elsewhere

People

Sport

Association football, soccer

Other sports

Military

Transport

Other uses

See also