Jiggs may refer to:

Animals

* Jiggs (chimpanzee), who originated the role of Cheeta in the Tarzan movies *

Jiggs (orangutan) Universal City Zoo was a private animal collection in southern California that provided animals for silent-era Universal Pictures adventure films, circus pictures, and animal comedies, and to "serve as a point of interest" for tourists visiting U ...

, held in the

Universal City Zoo Universal City Zoo was a private animal collection in southern California that provided animals for silent-era Universal Pictures adventure films, circus pictures, and animal comedies, and to "serve as a point of interest" for tourists visiting ...

and San Diego Zoo in the early 20th century *

Jiggs II Jiggs II (September 22, 1925 – March 30, 1937), also known as Silent White Richard, was the second of a number of English Bulldogs to serve as mascots of the United States Marine Corps. He succeeded the original mascot, Jiggs, following that do ...

, the second of a number of English Bulldogs to serve as mascots of the United States Marine Corps

Communities

Jiggs, Nevada Jiggs is an unincorporated community in Elko County, Nevada, United States, in the Mound Valley at the south end of State Route 228. It contains a very small school. The community is part of the Elko Micropolitan Statistical Area. Jiggs is l ...

, an unincorporated community in Elko County

People

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Military figures

* Frank Borland (1925–2013), Canadian Second World War soldier, recipient of the French Legion of Honor * C. H. Jaeger (1913–1970), British Army lieutenant colonel and military band leader

Sportspeople

* George "Jiggs" Dahlberg, head coach of the 1945 Montana Grizzlies football team *

Edward Donahue Edward A. "Jiggs" Donahue (February 5, 1891 – October 29, 1961) was an American football and baseball player, coach of multiple sports, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Clemson University from 1917 to ...

(c. 1891–1961), American multi-sport college athlete, coach and administrator *

Jiggs Donahue John Augustine Donahue (July 13, 1879 – July 19, 1913) was an American Major League Baseball first baseman and catcher with the Pittsburgh Pirates, Baltimore Orioles, Milwaukee Brewers / Baltimore Orioles, St. Louis Browns, Chicago White Sox an ...

(1879–1913), American professional baseball player *

John Donahue (baseball) John Frederick Donahue ("Jiggs") (April 19, 1894 – October 3, 1949) was a right fielder in Major League Baseball who played briefly for the Boston Red Sox during the 1923 season. Listed at , 170 lb., Donahue was a switch-hitter and threw ...

(1894–1949), American professional baseball player * Jiggs McDonald (born 1938), Canadian hockey sportscaster *

Jiggs Parrott Walter Edward "Jiggs" Parrott (July 14, 1871April 14, 1898) was an American professional baseball player whose career spanned eight seasons, four of which were spent with the Major League Baseball (MLB) Chicago Colts (1892–95). Parrott, an inf ...

(1871–1898), American professional baseball player * Jiggs Parson (1885–1967), American professional baseball pitcher * Jiggs Peters, race car driver in the

1954 AAA Championship Car season The 1954 AAA Championship Car season consisted of 13 races, beginning in Speedway, Indiana, Speedway, Indiana on May 30 and concluding in Las Vegas, Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada on November 14. There was also one non-championship event in Mechanicsb ...

, among others *

Don Peterson (American football) Donald Williams "Jiggs" Peterson D.D.S. (April 26, 1928 – July 20, 2010) was an American football player. He played college football for the University of Michigan from 1948 to 1951 and was selected as the Most Valuable Player of the 1951 Michi ...

(1928–2010), American college football player

Other

* Jiggs Kalra (1947–2019), Indian restaurateur, food columnist, television host, and author * Jiggs Whigham (born 1943), American jazz trombonist

Fictional characters

* Jiggs, star of American comic strip ''

Bringing Up Father ''Bringing Up Father'' is an American comic strip created by cartoonist George McManus. Distributed by King Features Syndicate, it ran for 87 years, from January 2, 1913, to May 28, 2000. The strip was later titled ''Jiggs and Maggie'' (or ''M ...

'', with his wife Maggie, from 1913 to 2000 ** ''Jiggs and Maggie'' (film series), a series of films with those characters, from 1946 to 1950 * Jiggs, a major character in the 1935 novel '' Pylon'' by William Faulkner * Colonel Martin "Jiggs" Casey, in the 1964 film '' Seven Days in May'', played by Kirk Douglas * Jillian Jiggs, in children's books by Phoebe Gilman * Master Sergeant Jiggs, Chief of Security for Project Tic-Toc in the Irwin Allen Television Series ''

The Time Tunnel ''The Time Tunnel'' is an American color science fiction TV series written around a theme of time travel adventure starring James Darren and Robert Colbert. The show was creator-producer Irwin Allen's third science-fiction television series and ...

'', portrayed by Wesley Lau

Other

* Jiggs dinner, a traditional meal commonly prepared and eaten on Sundays in Newfoundland

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