Jäger (also Jager, Jaeger, or Jæger; German pronunciation: [ˈjɛːɡɐ]) is a common German surname. It comes from the German word for "hunter". Related surnames in other languages include De Jager, Jääger, Jágr, Yaeger and Yeager.
The surname may refer to:
In arts and entertainment
Acting
- Frederick Jaeger (1928–2004), German-born actor
- Professor Jager, stage name of Scott Folsom, co-founder of the League of STEAM performance troupe
Fictional characters
- Eren Jaeger, the main protagonist of the manga series Attack on Titan and its anime adaptation
- Zeke Jaeger, the older brother of Eren Jaeger of the manga series Attack on Titan and anime adaptation
- Grisha Jaeger, the father of Eren and Zeke from manga series Attack on Titan and anime adaptation
Music
- August Jaeger (1860–1909), English music publisher of German extraction, the "Nimrod" of Edward Elgar's composition
- Finne Jager, trance music DJ from the Netherlands
- Marike Jager (born 1979), singer, guitarist and composer from the Netherlands
- Robert E. Jager (born 1939), US composer
Production
- Patrick Jager (born 1968), US television producer and executive
Visual arts
- Alex Jaeger, American art director and costume designer
- Gerrit de Jager (born 1954), Dutch comic-artist
- Gustav Jaeger (painter) (1808–1871), German painter
- Michael Jäger (artist) (born 1956), German artist
- Stefan Jäger (1877–1962), painter
Writing
- Frank Jæger (1926–1977), Danish poet
- Hans Jæger (1854–1910), Norwegian writer, philosopher and political activist
In government and politics
- Alvin Jaeger (born 1943), politician
- Friedrich Gustav Jaeger (1895–1944), resistance fighter in Nazi Germany and a member of the 20 July Plot
- Hans Jæger (1854–1910), Norwegian writer, philosopher and political activist
- Jan Kees de Jager (born 1969), IT entrepreneur and politician in the Netherlands
- Karl Jäger (1888–1959), Swiss-born Nazi leader, commander of the SD Einsatzkommando 3
- Richard Jaeger (1913–1998), German politician
In religion
- Jacob de Jager (1923–2004), general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Lorenz Jaeger (1892–1975), German prelate of the Roman Catholic Church
- Maximilian Jaeger (1915–1999), Swiss Minister in Budapest from 1936 to 1944
- Willigis Jäger (1925–2020), German Benedictine friar, mystic, and Zen master
In science and academia
- Edmund Jaeger (1887–1983), US biologist
- Eduard Jäger von Jaxtthal (1818–1884), Austrian ophthalmologist
- Eric Jager (born 1957), professor in the department of English at University of California, Los Angeles
- Frans Maurits Jaeger (1877–1945), Dutch chemist
- Gert Jäger (born 1935), German translation scholar and a specialist in the Polish and Czech languages
- Gustav Jäger (naturalist) (1832–1917), German naturalist and doctor
- Hermann Jaeger (1844–?), Swiss oenologist
- John Conrad Jaeger (1907–1979), Australian mathematical physicist.
- Margarete Jäger, Margarete Jäger
- Marilyn Jager Adams (born 1948), researcher in the areas of cognition and education
- Peter Jäger, German linguist
- Werner Jaeger (1888–1961), German classicist
In sport
- Adolf Jäger (1889–1944), German amateur football (soccer) player
- Andrea Jaeger (born 1965), American tennis player and humanitarian
- Eric Jagers (born 1995), American baseball coach
- Gisela Jäger, German rower
- Jaromír Jágr (born 1972), Czech ice hockey player
- Jeff Jaeger (born 1964), former American football place-kicker
- Jens Jäger (born 1963), German wheelchair curler, 2010 Winter Paralympian
- Jonathan Jäger (born 1978), French-born German professional footballer
- Martin Jágr (born 1979), Czech rugby union player
- Maximilian Jäger (born 2000), German para-cyclist
- Peta Taylor (married name Mary Jaegar, 1912–1989), English cricketer
- Thomas Jäger (born 1976), German racing driver
- Tom Jager (born 1964), US freestyle swimmer
- Werner Jäger (born 1959), Austrian ice speed skater
- Evan Jager (born 1989), 3000m Steeplechase silver medalist in 2016 Rio Olympics
In other fields
- August Jäger (1887 – 1949), German official of the Nazi era
- Nicolai Henrich Jæger (1780 – 1846), Norwegian lawyer
See also
- De Jager, Dutch variant
- Jágr (surname), Czech variant
- Yeager (surname)
- Yaeger
- Jagger (disambiguation)
See also
Surname listThis page lists people with the surname Jäger. If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name(s) to the link.
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