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Ajax

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Ajax may refer to:

Greek mythology and tragedy

  • Ajax the Great, a Greek mythological hero, son of King Telamon and Periboea
  • Ajax the Lesser, a Greek mythological hero, son of Oileus, the king of Locris
  • Ajax (play), by the ancient Greek tragedian Sophocles, about Ajax the Great

Entertainment

Comics

  • Ajax (Disney), a fictional company (the Disney equivalent of Looney Tunes' Acme Corporation)
  • Ajax Duckman, a character in the animated television series Duckman
  • Marvel Comics:
    • Ajax the Greater, another name for Ajak, one of the Eternals from Marvel Comics
    • Ajax the Lesser, another name for Arex, one of the Eternals from Marvel Comics
    • Ajax, a member of the Pantheon appearing in Marvel Comics
    • Francis Fanny, also known as Ajax, a fictional supervillain first appearing in Deadpool #14
  • DC Comics:
    • Martian Manhunter, a comic superhero, called Ajax in Brazil and Portugal
    • Ajax, a Superman robot used by Wonder Man to hide his identity

Music

  • A-Jax (band), a South Korean boy band
  • Ajax (band), an electronic music band from New York City
  • Ajax (opera), by the French composer Toussaint Bertin de la Doué
  • "Ajax" (song), a song by Tante Leen, 1969
  • Ajax Records, a former North American record company
  • DJ Ajax (1971-2013; born Adrian Thomas), an Australian electro mashup DJ
  • Lisa Ajax (born 1998), a Swedish singer

Computing

  • Ajax (floppy disk controller), a floppy disk controller fitted to the Atari STE
  • Ajax (programming), Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, a method used in web application development, and a software framework for it

Places

  • Ajax (electoral district), in the Durham Region of Ontario, Canada
  • Ajax (provincial electoral district), in Ontario, Canada
  • Ajax, Ontario, a town in the Greater Toronto Area
  • Ajax High School, a public high school in Ajax, Ontario, Canada
  • Kanichee Mine, Temagami, Ontario, also known as Ajax Mine
  • Ajax, Louisiana, an unincorporated community
  • Ajax, Missouri, a ghost town
  • Ajax, South Dakota, an unincorporated community
  • Ajax, Utah, a ghost town
  • Ajax, Virginia, an unincorporated community
  • Ajax, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
  • Aspen Mountain (Colorado), also known as Ajax Mountain

Sports

Association football

  • AFC Ajax, a football club in Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Ajax Cape Town F.C., a South African football club
  • Ajax Futebol Clube, a Brazilian football club
  • Ajax de Ouenzé, a Congolese football club
  • Ajax Kenitra, a Moroccan futsal (indoor football) club
  • FC Ajax Lasnamäe, an Estonian football club
  • Ajax Orlando Prospects, American soccer team from Orlando, Florida, a.k.a. Ajax America
  • Ajax America Women, American women's soccer team from California
  • Ajax Paramaribo, a Surinamese football club
  • Aias Salamina F.C., a football club in Salamina, Greece
  • Ajax Sportsman Combinatie, a cricket and football club in Leiden, Netherlands
  • Rabat Ajax F.C., a Maltese football club
  • Unión Ájax, a football club in Trujillo, Honduras

Other sports

  • Ajax (horse) (born 1901), a French Champion racehorse
  • Ajax II (born 1934), an Australian Champion racehorse
  • Ajax Heroes, a Danish handball team

Military

  • Ajax (armoured vehicle), a family of fighting vehicles for the British Army
  • Ayaks, a hypersonic waverider aircraft program started in the Soviet Union
  • Nike Ajax, world's first operational surface-to-air missile
  • HMS Ajax, several ships of the Royal Navy
  • USS Ajax, several ships of the US Navy

Transportation

  • Ajax (1906 automobile), Aigner, Switzerland
  • Ajax (1913 automobile), Briscoe, France
  • Ajax (1914 automobile), Seattle, Washington, US
  • Ajax (1921 automobile), prototype, US
  • Ajax (American automobile), brand of Nash Motors, 1925–1926, US
  • Ajax (locomotive), several train locomotives
  • Ajax (motorcycle), manufactured in England between 1923 and 1924
  • Ajax (crane barge), a floating crane used to install the Panama Canal locks
  • Ajax (1864 ship), a propeller steamer which sailed on both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States
  • Ajax GO Station, a train and bus station in Ajax, Ontario, Canada

Other

  • Ajax (cleaning product), a brand of household cleaning products
  • Ajax (missionary), Arian missionary who converted the Suevi to Christianity (c. 466)
  • Ajax (painting), a painting by John Steuart Curry
  • AJAX furnace, a type of open hearth furnace
  • Operation Ajax, the 1953 Iranian coup d'état
  • Ajax, pen name of Sidney William Jackson (1873–1946), an Australian naturalist and ornithologist
  • 1404 Ajax, a Jupiter trojan asteroid from the Greek camp
  • Ajax is a fictional Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 operative

See also

  • All pages with titles beginning with Ajax
  • All pages with titles containing Ajax
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