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