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Ajax is the name of two Greek mythological heros, referring either to Ajax the Great, son of Telamon, ruler of Salamis and a hero in the Trojan War; or Ajax the Lesser, son of Oileus, ruler of Locris and the leader of the Locrian contingent during the Trojan War.
Ajax may also refer to:
- Ajax (cleaning product), a brand of cleaning agent products
- AJAX furnace, a type of open hearth furnace
Technology
- Ajax (programming) (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), a method used in web application development, as well as a software framework for it
- Ajax (floppy disk controller), a floppy disk controller fitted to the Atari STE
People
- Ajax (missionary), Arian missionary who converted the Suevi to Christianity (c. 466)
- Ajax, pen name of Sidney William Jackson (1873–1946), an Australian nature writer
- Lisa Ajax (born 1998), a Swedish singer
Sports
Football
- AFC Ajax, a football club from Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Aias Salamina F.C., a football club based in Salamina, Greece
- Ajax Cape Town F.C., a South African football club
- Ajax de Ouenzé, a Congolese football club
- Ajax Futebol Clube, a Brazilian football club
- Ajax Kenitra, a Moroccan futsal (indoor football) club
- Ajax Orlando Prospects, also known as Ajax America, a Florida soccer team
- Ajax Paramaribo, a Surinamese football club
- FC Ajax Lasnamäe, an Estonian football club
- Rabat Ajax F.C., a Maltese football club
- Unión Ájax, a football club in Trujillo, Honduras
Other sports
- Ajax Sportsman Combinatie, a cricket and football club in Leiden, Netherlands
- Ajax Heroes, a Danish handball team
- Ajax (horse) (born 1901), a French Champion racehorse
- Ajax II (born 1934), an Australian Champion racehorse
Transportation
- Ajax (1906 automobile), Aigner, Switzerland
- Ajax (1913 automobile), Briscoe, France
- Ajax (1914 automobile), Seattle, Washington, US
- Ajax (1921 automobile), the prototype, US
- Ajax (American automobile), Nash Motors, 1925–1926, US
- Ajax (locomotive), an 0-4-2 steam locomotive purchased by the Emperor Ferdinand Northern Railway in 1841, believed to be the oldest preserved steam locomotive on the European mainland
- Ajax (motorcycle), manufactured in England between 1923 and 1924
- Ajax, one of the eight South Devon Railway Dido class steam locomotives, in service 1860–1884
- Ajax, a LMS Royal Scot Class express locomotive, in service 1927–1962
- Ajax (crane barge), a floating crane used to install the Panama Canal locks
Military
- Ajax (armoured vehicle), a family of armoured fighting vehicles for the British Army
- HMS Ajax, several ships of the Royal Navy
- USS Ajax, several ships of the US Navy
- Ayaks, a Soviet top secret aerospacecraft project
- Nike Ajax, an American anti-aircraft missile
- Operation Ajax, the 1953 Iranian coup d'état
Culture, arts
Fictional entities
- 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 villain characters from the Marvel Universe
- Ajak, a Marvel Comics character, a member of the Eternals, sometimes known as "Ajax the Greater"
- Ajax, a character in the 1979 film The Warriors
- Ajax, any of several fictional businesses used as a humor device in the radio comedy skits of Hudson & Landry
- Ajax, a character in the 2013 first-person shooter Call of Duty: Ghosts
- R70 Ajax, a Light Machine Gun/supply-drop weapon-in Call of Duty: Black Ops III
Music
- "Ajax" (song), a song by Tante Leen, 1969
- Ajax Records, a former North American record company
Bands
- Ajax (band), an electronic band from New York City, who formed in 1989
- A-Jax (band), a South Korean boy band, who formed in 2012 from Seoul
Performers
- DJ Ajax (1971-2013; born Adrian Thomas), an Australian electro mashup DJ
- AjaX, the keyboardist for The Pop Culture Suicides
Other uses in culture
- A Jax, an arcade game, 1987, developed and published by Konami
- Ajax (play), by the ancient Greek tragedian Sophocles
- Ajax (painting), a painting by John Steuart Curry
- Ajax (opera), by the French composer Toussaint Bertin de la Doué
Places
Canada
- Ajax, Ontario, a town in the Greater Toronto Area
- Ajax GO Station, a station in the GO Transit network located in the town
- Ajax High School, a public high school located in the town
- Ajax (electoral district), an electoral district consisting of the town
- Ajax (provincial electoral district)
- Kanichee Mine, Temagami, Ontario, also known as Ajax Mine
United States
- 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
See also
- All pages beginning with Ajax
- All pages with a title containing Ajax
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