Ajax

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Contents 1 Mythology 2 People 3 Information Technology 4 Football (soccer) 5 Horse Racing 6 Vehicles 7 Literature 8 Music 9 Places 10 Other

Ajax may refer to:

[edit] Mythology

• Ajax the Great as a well known hero from the Trojan war and son of Telamon
• Ajax the Lesser son of the king of Locris, and another hero in the Trojan war

[edit] People

• Ajax (missionary), Arian missionary who converted the pagan Suevi c. 466

[edit] Information Technology

• Ajax (programming), a technique used in web application development
• Ajax framework, a framework for the Ajax technique

[edit] Football (soccer)

• AFC Ajax, a football club from Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Ajax America, also known as Ajax Orlando, an American soccer team from Orlando, Florida
• Ajax Cape Town, a South African association football club
• Ajax Kenitra, a Moroccan futsal (indoor football) club
• FC Ajax Lasnamäe, an Estonian football club
• Rabat Ajax, a Maltese football club
• Ajax Sportman Combinatie (ASC), a cricket and football club in Leiden, The Netherlands
• Aias Salaminas F.C., a football club based in Salamina, Greece birthplace of Ajax the Telamonian.

[edit] Horse Racing

• Ajax (horse), a champion Australian racehorse of the 1930s

[edit] Vehicles

• Ajax (1906 automobile), Aigner, Switzerland
• Ajax (1913 automobile), Briscoe, France
• Ajax (1914 automobile), Seattle, Washington, U.S.
• Ajax (1921 automobile), prototype, U.S.
• Ajax (automobile), Nash Motors, 1925–1926, U.S.
• HMS Ajax, several ships of the Royal Navy
• USS Ajax, several ships of the United States
• Ajax (1860 locomotive), one of the eight South Devon Railway Dido class steam locomotives, in service 1860-1884
• Ajax (1927 locomotive), a LMS Royal Scot Class express locomotive, in service 1927-1962
• AYaKS, a Soviet top secret aerospacecraft project

[edit] Literature

• Ajax (Sophocles), one of the seven surviving plays by the ancient Greek tragedian Sophocles
• Ajax (Disney), a fictional company (the Disney equivalent of Looney Tunes' Acme Corporation)
• Ajax Duckman, a character in the animated television series Duckman
• Martian Manhunter, a comic superhero called Ajax in Brazil and Portugal
• Ajax (comics), the name of two fictional characters from the Marvel Universe
• Ajak, another Marvel Comics character, a member of the Eternals, sometimes known as "Ajax the Greater"
• Ajax Calkins, a character in Destiny's Orbit and Destination Saturn by Donald Wollheim

[edit] Music

• Ajax (band), an electronic band from New York City
• Ajax (DJ), Australian Electro mashup DJ
• Ajax Widowmaker, horrorcore rap artist
• Ajax Records (Chicago), Chicago based independent record label active in the later 20th century
• Ajax Records (Quebec) (1921 - 1926), a North American record company
• AjaX, The Pop Culture Suicides keyboardist
• Ajax Starglider, an American hip-hop artist from the group Future Shock

[edit] Places

• Ajax, Ontario, Canada
• Aspen Mountain (Colorado), also known as Ajax Mountain

[edit] Other

• Ajax (arcade game), a 1987 shoot 'em up arcade game released by Konami
• Ajax (cleanser), a household cleaner
• Operation Ajax, a 1953 Anglo-American covert operation to overthrow the government of Iran
• Apatosaurus ajax, the type species of the Apatosaurus genus of sauropod dinosaurs
• Nike Ajax, an American anti-aircraft missile system
• 1404 Ajax, an asteroid
• Ajax (toilet), an early flush toilet invented in England in 1596
• Ajax (The Warriors), a member of The Warriors gang.

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