Tiger (disambiguation)

See also: Tigress (disambiguation)

A tiger, Panthera tigris, is the largest of the "big cats"

Tiger may also refer to:

Zoology

• Tasmanian tiger, the Thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus), an extinct Australian animal unrelated to true tigers
• Saber-tooth tiger, a common name for several extinct species
• Genus of butterflies (Danaus) called tigers, monarchs or queens

People

Athletes

• Tiger Woods, an American golfer
• Tiger O'Reilly, a nickname for cricketer Bill O'Reilly
• Tiger Ali Singh, a professional wrestler
• Tiger Jeet Singh, a professional wrestler and father of Tiger Ali Singh
• Tiger Smith, an English cricketer
• Dariusz Michalczewski, a former light heavyweight boxer from Poland, nicknamed "Tiger"
• Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, an Indian cricketer, referred to as "Tiger"
• Ho-Chung Tao, a Taiwanese martial artist, nicknamed "Tiger"
• Tiger (wrestler), Mexican professional wrestler

Musicians

• Tiger (musician), a Jamaican dancehall musician
• Tiger Onitsuka, a Japanese jazz drummer

Artists

• Jerome Tiger, Seminole-Muscogee Creek artist
• Johnny Tiger, Jr., Seminole-Muscogee Creek artist

Others

• Georges Clemenceau, the World War 1 French Prime Minister, commonly known as "The Tiger"
• Lionel Tiger, anthropologist

Places

• Tiger, Georgia, a town in the United States
• Tiger, Washington, an unincorporated community in the U.S. state of Washington

Vehicles

• Tiger I, a German tank used during World War II
• Tiger II, a German tank used during World War II
• Leyland Tiger bus
• Sunbeam Tiger, a muscle car
• Several models of motorcycle made by the original Triumph Motorcycles and later incarnations:
  • Triumph Tigress/BSA Sunbeam
  • Triumph Tiger 955i
  • Triumph Tiger 1050
• Tiger, the name of South Devon Railway Eagle class locomotive, GWR no. 2116
• Tiger, a GWR Firefly Class, broad gauge locomotive
• Tiger or Tigr, nickname for the Russian military vehicle GAZ-2330
• Tiger or Tigr, nickname for the Russian military vehicle GAZ-2975

Aircraft

• Grumman American AA-5B Tiger
• F-11 Tiger aircraft
• Northrop F-5 Tiger II
• Eurocopter Tiger, European attack helicopter

Maritime

• SMS Tiger (1887), a torpedo ram cruiser of the Austro-Hungarian Navy
• HMS Tiger, various ships of the British Royal Navy
• Tiger class fast attack craft, a post-World War II class of Bundesmarine (German Federal Navy) fast attack craft
• USS Tigress, various United States Navy ships

Sports

• The Tigers (sports teams), various sports teams known as 'The Tigers'
• The ASEAN Football Championship, an association football tournament of the ASEAN Football Federation, formerly known as the Tiger Cup
• The Onitsuka Tiger, an athletic shoe brand from ASICS
• Various Poker hands known as big or little Tigers

Software

• Tiger Software, the previous name of from Mondago
• Mac OS X v10.4 from Apple Computer
• Java (programming language), Java 5.0, from Sun Microsystems
• Tiger (security software), a Unix-like software application for auditing the security of a particular machine and its network

Media and fiction

Films

• Tiger (film), a 1979 Telugu film
• The Tiger (1978 film), a 1978 Yugoslav film
• The Tiger: A Malayalam language movie released in 2005

Periodicals

• The Tiger (Clemson University newspaper), student newspaper
• Tiger (Fleetway), British comic magazine
• The Tiger (political journal), a Chinese political journal

Characters

• Kamen Rider Tiger, character from Kamen Rider Ryuki
• The Tiger, villain in Meet - The Tiger!, the first book in the Simon Templar ("The Saint") series
• Tiger, a cat character from An American Tail movies
• Tiger Ow, character in the Jackie Chan film Project A Part II

Literature

• The Tiger (book), a book by by John Vaillant
• Tiger (comic strip), by Bud Blake
• An alternative spelling of The Tyger, a poem by William Blake
• Tiger! Tiger! (Rudyard Kipling), Short Story written by Rudyard Kipling

Game Characters

• Tiger Jackson: Dancer from the video game series Tekken.
• Tyger Security: A rogue private military company employed by Hugo Strange as minor antagonists in Batman: Arkham City.

Music

• Tiger (band), a late-1990s Britpop band
• Tiger (1970s band), an early 1970s protopunck band
• Tiger (guitar), used by Jerry Garcia
• "Tiger Rag", a traditional jazz song
• "Tiger", a song by ABBA
• "Tiger", a song by Fabian
• Tigers (album), an album by The Dance Party

Business

Tiger can refer to several companies, including:

• Tiger Aircraft, a former aircraft manufacturer that was based in West Virginia, USA
• Tiger Airways, a regional airline based in Singapore
• Tiger Aspect Productions, a UK television production company
• Tiger Corporation, a Japanese small appliance maker
• Tiger Direct, an online retailer of computer items based in Florida, USA
• Tiger Electronics, a USA-based toys manufacturer
• Tiger (Danish store), a Danish variety store or price-point retailer chain
• Tiger Telematics, a former maker of video gaming devices
• ASICS Tiger Corporation, the former name used by the ASICS America corporation
• Tiger Line, a local bus service in Buckinghamshire, England

• Tiger economy, that of a country with rapid economic growth

Technology and mathematics

• TIGER, a mapping format used by the United States Census Bureau
• Tiger (cryptography), a cryptographic hash function
• Tiger (security software), a Unix security tool
• Mac OS X Tiger, release name "Tiger", an operating system for Apple Macintosh computers
• Java Platform, Standard Edition Tiger, a version of the Java programming language released in 2004
• Tiger, a line of automatic test equipment produced by Teradyne

Other

• Tiger (zodiac), one of the animals in the Chinese zodiac calendar
• Tiger Beer, a lager brewed and bottled by Asia Pacific Breweries Limited, Singapore
• Tiger rank (Cub Scouts of America), also known as a Tiger Cub
• Tiger Tiger, a nightclub in London, site of 2007 London car bombs
• Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER), a federal stimulus program included in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
• The Tiger Division, the nickname of the 10th Armored Division (United States)
• The Tiger Division, the nickname of the Capital Mechanized Infantry Division (Republic of Korea)
• The Tamil Tigers, a separatist organization formerly based in northern Sri Lanka

See also

• El Tigre (disambiguation)
• The Tigers (disambiguation)
• Tiga (disambiguation)
• Tigerstripe, a type of camouflage pattern
• Tigre (disambiguation)
• Tyger (disambiguation)
• Taiga (disambiguation)