Tiger (disambiguation)

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A tiger is a big cat of the genus Panthera.

Tiger may also refer to:

Other animals

• Saber-tooth tiger, a common name for several unrelated prehistoric mammals
• Tasmanian tiger, the thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus), an extinct Australian marsupial unrelated to true tigers
• Tiger butterflies, the milkweed butterfly tribe Danaini, especially subtribe Danaina and genera
  • Danaus (genus) (tigers, monarchs and queens)
  • Ideopsis (glassy tigers, Southeast Asian wood- and tree nymphs)
  • Parantica (tigers)
  • Tirumala (genus) (blue tigers)
• Tiger moths, the family Arctiidae

People

• Tiger (name), a list of people with the surname
• Tiger (nickname), a list of people
• Tiger (musician) (born 1960), stage name of a Jamaican dancehall musician
• Tiger Greene (born 1962), former National Football League player
• Tiger Onitsuka (born 1998), Japanese jazz drummer
• Bill O'Reilly (cricketer) (1905-1992), Australian cricketer
• Tiger Shroff (born 1990), an Indian actor
• Tiger Ali Singh (born 1973), ring name of an Indo-Canadian wrestler
• Tiger Jeet Singh (born 1948), ring name of an Indo-Canadian wrestler and father of Tiger Ali Singh
• Tiger Woods (born 1975), professional golfer

Places

in the United States

• Tiger, Arizona, a ghost town
• Tiger, Colorado, a ghost town
• Tiger, Georgia, a town
• Tiger, Washington, an unincorporated community
• Tiger Creek (Florida), a stream in Florida
• Tiger Creek (Georgia), a stream in Georgia
• Tiger Lake (disambiguation), two lakes in Minnesota
• Tiger Mountain, Washington

Arts and entertainment

Characters

• Tiger (DC Comics), kid sidekick of the superhero Judomaster
• Tiger (dog), animal actor in the TV series The Brady Bunch and the movie A Boy and His Dog
• Tiger, a cat character from An American Tail movies
• Tiger Tanaka, an ally of James Bond in the film You Only Live Twice
• Tiger Ow, character in the Jackie Chan film Project A Part II
• Tiger, a character in Ibn-e-Safi's Imran series - see Imran series characters
• Tiger Gleeson, a character from Australian series Round the Twist
• The Tiger, villain in Meet the Tiger, the first book in the Simon Templar ("The Saint") series
• Tiger Jackson, from the video game series Tekken
• Kamen Rider Tiger, from Kamen Rider Ryuki

Films

• The Tiger (1978 film), a Yugoslav film
• Tiger (1979 film), a Telugu film
• Tiger, a 1997 comedy-family film by Serge Rodnunsky
• The Tiger (2005 film), a Malayalam-language film
• Tiger (2007 film), a Bengali film
• Tigers (film), a 2014 Indian film
• Tiger (2015 film)
• The Tiger: An Old Hunter's Tale, a 2015 South Korean film
• The Tiger (upcoming film), an upcoming American film starring Brad Pitt

Literature

• Tiger (comic strip), by Bud Blake
• Tiger (Fleetway), British comic magazine
• The Tiger, a book by John Vaillant
• An alternative spelling of The Tyger, a 1794 poem by William Blake
• The Tigers, a group of bullies from the Encyclopedia Brown books

Music and other recordings

Bands

• Tiger (1970s band), formerly Crushed Butler, a proto-punk band
• Tiger (band), a late-1990s Britpop band
• The Tigers (Japanese band), a 1960s Japanese rock band

Instruments

• Tiger (guitar), used by Jerry Garcia

Albums

• Tiger (Frank Buck album), a 1950 children’s record
• Tiger (Superette album), 1996
• Tigers (album), by The Dance Party

Songs

• "Tiger" (Fabian song), a 1959 song by Fabian Forte
• "Tiger", a song by ABBA
• "Tiger" (Steve Angello song), a 2015 song by Steve Angello

Periodicals

• The Tiger (newspaper), a student newspaper
• The Tiger (political magazine), Chinese publication

Business

• Tiger (Danish store), a Danish variety store or price-point retailer chain
• Tiger Aircraft, a former aircraft manufacturer that was based in West Virginia, USA
• Tiger Airways, a regional airline based in Singapore
• Tiger Airways Australia, a low-cost Australian domestic airline launched in 2007
• Tiger Aspect Productions, a UK television production company formerly known as Tiger Television
• Tiger Beer, a lager brewed and bottled by Asia Pacific Breweries Limited, Singapore
• Tiger Brands, a South African packaged goods company
• Tiger Corporation, a Japanese small appliance maker
• Tiger Electronics, a USA-based toys manufacturer
• Tiger Line, a local bus service in Buckinghamshire, England
• Tiger Resources, an Australia-based mining company
• Tiger Telematics, a former maker of video gaming devices
• ASICS Tiger Corporation, the former name used by the ASICS America Corporation

Military

Aircraft

• Grumman F-11 Tiger, a US Navy fighter of the 1950s and 1960s
• Eurocopter Tiger, European attack helicopter
• Northrop F-5 Tiger II, a light supersonic fighter

Land vehicles

• Tiger I, a German World War II heavy tank
• Tiger II, a German World War II heavy tank; successor of the Tiger I
• GAZ Tiger, a Russian military vehicle

Ships

• HMS Tiger, various ships of the British Royal Navy
• HNoMS Tor (1939), a Royal Norwegian Navy destroyer captured and salvaged by the Germans in World War II and renamed Tiger
• SMS Tiger (1887), a torpedo ram cruiser of the Austro-Hungarian Navy
• Tiger-class cruiser, the last cruiser class of the Royal Navy
• Tiger-class fast attack craft, a post-World War II class of Bundesmarine (German Federal Navy) fast attack craft

Units

• Tiger Division (disambiguation), various military units
• Tigers, nickname of the 3rd Division (Singapore)
• Tigers, nickname of the 152d Fighter Squadron of the Arizona Air National Guard
• Flying Tigers, nickname of the 1st American Volunteer Group of the Chinese Air Force
• Tiger Force (air), a British Second World War long-range heavy bomber force formed in 1945
• Tiger Force, a small American special operations force in the Vietnam War
• Tigers Militia, the military wing of the National Liberal Party during the Lebanese Civil War

Other

• Exercise Tiger, a series of large-scale rehearsals for the World War II D-Day invasion
• Exercise Tiger (1942), a Second World War Commonwealth military exercise
• Operation Tiger, a 1941 World War II convoy; one of the Malta Convoys
• Operation Tiger (1992), a Croatian Army offensive during the Croatian War of Independence
• Operation Tiger (1994), an Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina action

Organizations

• Tiger (organisation), a Russian-based opposition pressure group
• Tiger rank (Cub Scouts of America), also known as a Tiger Cub

Sports

• Tigers (sports teams), various sports teams
• ASEAN Football Championship, an association football tournament of the ASEAN Football Federation, formerly known as the Tiger Cup
• Various poker hands known as big or little Tigers

Technology and mathematics

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

Transportation

• Leyland Tiger (front-engined)
• Leyland Tiger, a bus
• Siddeley Tiger, an unsuccessful post-First World War British aero engine
• Sunbeam Tiger (1925), a racing car
• Sunbeam Tiger, a muscle car
• Tiger Truck, a Chinese light utility truck
• Triumph Tiger, various motorcycles made by the British company Triumph Engineering and its successor Triumph Motorcycles Ltd.
• Tiger, the name of South Devon Railway Eagle class locomotive GWR no. 2116
• Tiger, a GWR Firefly Class, broad-gauge locomotive
• Two models of the Grumman American AA-5 light aircraft family (AA-5B and AG-5B)
• Sixth generation of Toyota Hilux, also known as Tiger in some countries

Other

• Tiger (zodiac), one of the animals in the Chinese zodiac
• Tiger Temple, a Buddhist temple in Thailand
• Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER), a federal stimulus program included in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
• Tiger kidnapping, a crime tactic

See also

• Tiger economy, description of a country experiencing rapid economic growth
• El Tigre (disambiguation)
• The Tigers (disambiguation)
• Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, a separatist organization formerly based in northern Sri Lanka
• Taiga (disambiguation)
• Tiga (disambiguation)
• Tiger Tiger (disambiguation)
• TIGAR
• Tigger, a character from Winnie-the-Pooh
• Tigre (disambiguation)
• Tyger (disambiguation)
• Taiga (disambiguation)