Jäger, Jager, or Jaeger (), meaning "hunter" in German, may refer to: *

Jäger (surname) Jäger (also Jager, Jaeger, or Jæger; ) is a common German language, German surname. It comes from the German language, German word for "hunter". Related surnames in other languages include De Jager, Jääger, Jágr (surname), Jágr, Yaeger and Ye ...

, also Jaeger and Jæger, including a list of people and fictional characters with the surname

Fictional characters

*Jaeger, in the television series '' Altered Carbon'' *Jaeger, a group of vampire hunters in the anime series '' Sirius the Jaeger'' *Jaegers, a group in the ''Akame ga Kill!'' manga and anime *Jaegers, piloted robots used to fight alien monsters in the 2013 film ''

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'' and the 2018 sequel *Jaeger (alt. Jäger; Yeager), refers to a family from the manga series

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 a ...

and it’s anime adaptation anime series of the same name. Known member of the family:

Eren Yeager , also spelled Eren Jaeger (Turkish: Eren, "Saint"; German: Jäger (surname), Jaeger/Jäger, "Hunter"), is the protagonist of the ''Attack on Titan'' manga series created by Hajime Isayama. Eren is a teenager who swears revenge on enormous man-e ...

, Grisha Yeager, Zeke Yeager

In biology

*Jaeger, the North American name for the smaller species of the

skua The skuas are a group of predatory seabirds with seven species forming the genus ''Stercorarius'', the only genus in the family Stercorariidae. The three smaller skuas, the Arctic skua, the long-tailed skua, and the pomarine skua, are called ...

family of seabirds *

Jaeger 70 Jaeger 70 (also known as Munson) is a hybrid of two American grape species, '' Vitis lincecumii'' and '' Vitis rupestris'' developed by Hermann Jaeger (1844–1895), a Swiss-American who settled in Missouri. He named the successful hybrid for hi ...

, a hybrid of two American species of grape * Jaeger's anetia, a species of butterfly in the family Danaidae

Businesses and products

* Jaeger (automobile), an automobile built in Belleville, Michigan by the Jaeger Motor Car Company *

Jaeger (clothing) Jaeger ( ) is a British fashion brand and retailer of womenswear and menswear. Traditionally known for a classic ' twinset and pearls' image and the use of high-quality natural fibres, it has focused on updating its brand image since 2008, when ...

, a United Kingdom clothing retailer, named after Gustav Jäger **Jaeger, a

union suit A union suit is a type of one-piece long underwear, most often associated with menswear in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. History Created in Utica, New York, United States, it originated as women's wear during the 19th-century United S ...

(or "woolly combination") popularised by the Jaeger clothing company * Jaeger (software), a distributed tracing system *Jaeger, a trademark of Italian automotive manufacturer

Magneti Marelli Marelli Europe S.p.A. (formerly Magneti Marelli S.p.A.) is a European subsidiary of Marelli Holdings which develops and manufactures components for the automotive industry. The firm is headquartered in Corbetta, Italy, and includes 86 manufac ...

Armi Jager Armi Jager, otherwise known as Adler Jager, was a German- Italian firearms manufacturer located in the small town of Loano, Italy. Early history The gun manufacturer was active since the early 1950s, manufacturing semi-automatic .22 rimfire s ...

, an Italian firearms manufacturer *

Jägermeister ( , ) is a German digestif made with 56 herbs and spices. Developed in 1934 by Wilhelm and Curt Mast, it has an alcohol by volume of 35% ( 61 degrees proof, or US 70 proof). The recipe has not changed since its creation, and the drink contin ...

, a German digestif

Military

Jäger (infantry) (; ; , ) is a German military term referring to specific light infantry units. In German-speaking states during the early modern era, the term ''jäger'' came to denote light infantrymen whose civilian occupations (mostly hunters and fores ...

, a German military term for rifle-armed infantry *Jäger rifle, a type of early flintlock rifle; see

German military rifles The evolution of German military rifles is a history of common and diverse paths followed by the separate German states, until the mid-19th century when Prussia emerged as the dominant state within Germany and the nation was unified. This article ...

List of Jäger units This is a list of Jäger units in various national armies. ''Jäger'', or ''Jaeger'', is the German word for "hunter", and describes a kind of light infantry. In English the word Jaeger is also translated as "rifleman" or " ranger". German-sp ...

In sport

Hunter Jaegers Hunter Jaegers were an netball in Australia, Australian netball team based in Newcastle, New South Wales. Together with Sydney Swifts and Sydney Sandpipers, they were one of three teams to represent Netball New South Wales in the Commonwealth Ba ...

, an Australian netball team *Jäger (or Jaeger), a release skill performed on the

horizontal bar The horizontal bar, also known as the high bar, is an apparatus used by male gymnasts in artistic gymnastics. It traditionally consists of a cylindrical metal (typically steel) bar that is rigidly held above and parallel to the floor by a syst ...

uneven bars The uneven bars or asymmetric bars is an artistic gymnastics apparatus. It is made of a steel frame. The bars are made of fiberglass with wood coating, or less commonly wood. The English abbreviation for the event in gymnastics scoring is UB or ...

in gymnastics *

Rote Jäger The ''Rote Jäger'' (''Red Hunters'') were a short-lived German military football club active during World War II (August 1943 – November 1944). The team was assembled by Hermann Graf, a fighter ace and commander of German fighter pilots. ...

, a short-lived German military football club active during World War II

Other uses

* Jager, an alternative name for the city of

Eger Eger ( , ; ; also known by other #Names and etymology, alternative names) is the county seat of Heves County, and the second largest city in Northern Hungary (after Miskolc). A city with county rights, Eger is best known for Castle of Eger, its ...