49er

49er or Forty-Niner is a nickname for a miner or other person that took part in the 1849 California Gold Rush.

49er or Forty-Niner may also refer to:

Sports

• San Francisco 49ers, American football team, named for the California Gold Rush prospectors
• Charlotte 49ers, athletic teams of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte
• Long Beach State 49ers, athletic teams of California State University, Long Beach
• Yuba 49ers, athletic teams of Yuba College
• 49er (dinghy), an Olympic class of racing dinghy
• Forty Niner (horse), American Thoroughbred racehorse

Music

• 49ers (band), an Italian Italo house and Eurodance project
• 49ers (album)
• The 49ers, an American hip-hop duo

Other

• 49er flapjack, a sourdough crepe
• Top 10: The Forty-Niners, a novel by Alan Moore and Gene Ha
• The Forty-Niners, a group of shōjo manga artists also known as the Year 24 Group
• "The 49ers", a group of Cathay Pacific Airways pilots fired on 9 July 2001
• 49er, the lowest initiated rank in a Triad
• A real ale brewed by the Ringwood Brewery with a strength, appropriately, of 4.9%
• A member of the 49th Battalion, CEF
• The Forty Niner or 49'er, a streamliner passenger train between San Francisco and Chicago operated by the Union Pacific Railroad

See also

• 49 (number)
• Forty-Eighters, Europeans involved in the revolutions of 1848
• Niner (disambiguation)
• 29er (disambiguation)