Boomer

Boomer may refer to:

Animals

• An adult male kangaroo, nicknamed "boomer" in Australia
• An alternate name for the Mountain Beaver

Fiction

Comics

• Owen Mercer, the current Captain Boomerang in the DC Comics universe, nicknamed "Boomer"
• Rotor Walrus, a character from Sonic the Hedgehog comics, nicknamed "Boomer" in early issues
• Tabitha Smith, a Marvel Comics comic book superhero, formerly called Boomer

Video games

• Boomers, a faction of xenophobic people in Fallout: New Vegas
• The Boomer, a recurring Special Infected in the Left 4 Dead series
• Boomers, heavily armored soldiers of the locust horde in the Gears of war series
• Boomer, a character in the Skylanders video game, known for wielding explosives enthusiastically.

Film

• Boomer, a woodpecker in the 1981 animated Disney film The Fox and the Hound

Television

• Boomer (TUGS), an anthropomorphic tug boat from the children's television series TUGS
• Boomer (Bubblegum Crisis), a fictional synthetic life form developed by Katsuhito Stingray in the anime series Bubblegum Crisis
• Boomer (Lilo & Stitch), experiment 288 from Lilo & Stitch: The Series
• Lieutenant Boomer, a character in the 1978 television series Battlestar Galactica
  • Sharon Valerii, a character in the 2004 re-imagined series Battlestar Galactica, known by her call-sign "Boomer"
• Boomer, one of the two Targetmaster partners of Autobot chemist Quickmix in Transformers
• Boomer, the blond member of the Rowdyruff Boys, a trio of villains in The Powerpuff Girls
• Boomer, the title character, a dog, in the 1980 TV series Here's Boomer

Others

• Captain Boomer, a British whaling ship captain who appears briefly in Herman Melville's Moby Dick
• Boomer, the redhead tomboy from the Burger King Kids Club

Groups of people

• Baby boomer, someone who was born during the period of increased birth rates when economic prosperity arose in many countries following World War II
• Boomers (Oklahoma settlers), advocates for the opening of the Unassigned Lands of Oklahoma Territory for settlement
• The Boomers (band), a Canadian rock band hailing from Ontario

People

Nick name

• Ron Blomberg (born 1948), Major League Baseball DH/first baseman/right fielder nicknamed "Boomer"
• Boomer Castleman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist from Farmers Branch, Texas
• Boomer Esiason, former National Football League quarterback
• Boomer Grigsby (born 1981), American football fullback
• Brent Harvey, professional Australian rules footballer nicknamed "Boomer"
• Boomer Phillips, comedian and television personality
• Chris Berman, ESPN sportscaster nicknamed "Boomer"
• George Scott (first baseman), Major League Baseball player nicknamed "Boomer"
• David Wells, Major League Baseball pitcher nicknamed "Boomer"

Surname

• Bill Boomer, former head coach of the men's swim team at the University of Rochester
• Garth Boomer (died 1993), an influential educationalist working in Australia
• George Boomer (1862–1915), American socialist journalist, newspaper editor, and political activist
• George B. Boomer (1832–1863), Union Army colonel in the American Civil War
• Harry Boomer, newscaster for WOIO news in Cleveland, Ohio
• Jørgine Boomer (1887–1971), Norwegian-American businesswoman and entrepreneur
• Linwood Boomer, Canadian television producer
• Walter E. Boomer (born 1938), retired former four-star General and Assistant Commandant of the United States Marine Corps and business executive

Places

• Boomer, North Carolina
• Boomer, West Virginia
• Boomers! Parks, a theme park / family entertainment center chain owned by Palace Entertainment

Sports

Teams

• Australia national basketball team, officially nicknamed "Australian Boomers"
• Bulleen Boomers, a basketball club based in Bulleen, a north-eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Calgary Boomers, a former professional association football team in Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Mascots

• Boomer (K9) the dog, the Port Vale F.C. mascot
• Boomer (Pacers Mascot), the mascot of the Indiana Pacers
• Boomer the Bear, the mascot for the Spokane Chiefs WHL hockey team
• Boomer and Sooner, the two mascots of the University of Oklahoma
• Buzz and Boomer, the official mascots of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers
• Boomer the Bulldog, the mascot of Dean College sports

Technology

• A ballistic missile submarine in American naval slang
• Boomer, a freeware pharmacokinetic modeling software

See also

• Boom (disambiguation)
• The Boomer Project, a market research firm, headquartered in Richmond, Virginia
• All pages with titles containing "boomer"