Yeager is a mostly

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surname, a phonetic

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of the common German surname Jaeger (Jäger), meaning

hunter Hunting is the human activity, human practice of seeking, pursuing, capturing, or killing wildlife or feral animals. The most common reasons for humans to hunt are to harvest food (i.e. meat) and useful animal products (fur/hide (skin), hide, ...

. Yaeger
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022 Notable people with the surname include: *

Albert F. Yeager Albert Franklin Yeager (1892 - November 4, 1961) was an American horticulturalist. From his work developing hardy vegetables and fruits at the North Dakota Agricultural College (NDAC) and the North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station (NDAES), ...

, (1892-1961) American horticulturalist *

Biff Yeager Biff Yeager is an American actor. He has appeared in many TV series including ''Gilmore Girls''. Career Yeager has appeared in such TV shows as '' Star Trek: The Next Generation'', ''The Wonder Years'', and '' Scrubs''. He played Lieutenant Com ...

, American actor * Bunny Yeager (1929–2014), American photographer and model *

Chuck Yeager Brigadier General Charles Elwood Yeager ( , February 13, 1923December 7, 2020) was a United States Air Force officer, flying ace, and record-setting test pilot who in October 1947 became the first pilot in history confirmed to have exceeded the ...

(1923–2020), American test pilot who was the first person to break the sound barrier * Dan Yeager (born 1965), American actor, screenwriter, and director * George Yeager (1874–1940), American baseball player * James J. Yeager (1909–1971), American football player and coach *

Jeana Yeager Jeana Lee Yeager (born May 18, 1952) is an American aviator. She co-piloted, along with Dick Rutan, the first non-stop, non-refueled flight around the world in the Rutan Voyager aircraft from December 14 to 23, 1986. The flight took 9 days, 3 m ...

(born 1952), American aviator * Joe Yeager (1875–1937), American baseball player * Ken Yeager (born 1952), American politician * Laura Yeager, American Army general *

Leland Yeager Leland Bennett Yeager (; October 4, 1924 – April 23, 2018) was an American economist dealing with monetary policy and international trade. Biography Yeager graduated from Oberlin College in 1948 with an A.B. and was granted an M.A. from Columb ...

(1924–2018), American economist * Lewis Yeager (1878–1906), American football coach * Meredith Yeager, American geneticist * Mike Yeager (born 1977), American football coach *

Ralph Oscar Yeager Ralph Oscar Yeager, AIA, (1892 – 1960) was an American architect who worked in Indiana.archINFORM ...

(1892–1960), German-American architect *

Roy Yeager Roy Yeager (born February 4, 1949) is an American musician and record producer. His musical career started off when he moved to Memphis, Tennessee at the age of 14. Yeager met Bobby Sowell in high school in 1964 and soon they were playing gig ...

(born 1949), American musician * Stephanie Yeager, American politician *

Steve Yeager Stephen Wayne Yeager (born November 24, 1948) is an American former professional baseball catcher. Yeager spent 14 of the 15 seasons of his Major League Baseball career, from 1972 through 1985, with the Los Angeles Dodgers. His last year, 1986, h ...

(born 1948), American major league baseball catcher *

Steve Yeager (filmmaker) Steve Yeager (born 1948) is an independent filmmaker from Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. He is best known for his film on the indie filmmaking of fellow director John Waters, titled ''Divine Trash'', which won the Filmmakers Trophy for Best Documenta ...

(born 1948), American film director *

William Yeager William "Bill" Yeager (born June 16, 1940, San Francisco) is an American engineer. He is best known for being the inventor of a packet-switched, "Ships in the Night," multiple-protocol router in 1981, during his 20-year tenure at Stanford's K ...

(born 1940), best known for his development of the first multiple-protocol router software while working at Stanford University Fictional characters: *

Eren Yeager , named Eren Jaeger (Turkish: Eren, "Saint"; German: Jaeger/Jäger, "Hunter") in the subtitled and dubbed versions of the anime '' Attack on Titan'', is a fictional character and the protagonist of the '' Attack on Titan'' manga series create ...

, main character of the manga and anime ''

Attack on Titan is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hajime Isayama. It is set in a world where humanity is forced to live in cities surrounded by three enormous walls that protect them from gigantic man-eating humanoids referred to as ...

'', also spelled Jaeger in some translations *Cade and Tessa Yeager, characters from '' Transformers: Age of Extinction'' * Charlotte E. Yeager, character from the anime ''

Strike Witches is a Japanese media mix originally created by Fumikane Shimada via a series of magazine illustration columns. The franchise has since been adapted into several light novel, manga, and anime series and various video games. ...

'', based on Chuck Yeager as her ace archetype. Also known as "Shirley".

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