Ajax

Ajax may refer to:

Greek mythology and tragedy

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

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

  • Ajax Duckman, in the animated television series Duckman
  • Marvel Comics:
    • Ajax the Greater, another name for Ajak, one of the Eternals
    • Ajax the Lesser, another name for Arex, one of the Eternals
    • Ajax, a member of the Pantheon
    • Ajax (Francis Freeman), a supervillain
  • Martian Manhunter, a DC Comics superhero called Ajax in Brazil and Portugal
  • Ajax, a Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 operative
  • Ajax, the real name of Tartaglia, a character in the 2020 video game Genshin Impact
  • Ajax Petropolus, a character in the TV series Wednesday

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
  • DJ Ajax (1971–2013; born Adrian Thomas), an Australian electro mashup DJ
  • Lisa Ajax (born 1998), Swedish singer
  • "Ajax" (song), a song by Tante Leen, 1969
  • Ajax Records, a former North American record company

Other arts and entertainment

  • Ajax (painting), a painting by John Steuart Curry
  • Ajax (Disney), a fictional company (the Disney equivalent of Looney Tunes' Acme Corporation)
  • A-Jax (video game), a 1987 Konami arcade game

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

Canada

  • Ajax (federal electoral district), in the Durham Region of Ontario
  • Ajax (provincial electoral district), in Ontario
  • Ajax, Ontario, a town in the Greater Toronto Area

United States

  • Ajax, Louisiana, an unincorporated community
  • Ajax, Missouri, a ghost town
  • Ajax Peak, a summit near Telluride, Colorado
  • 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

Elsewhere

  • Mount Ajax, part of the Admiralty Mountains, Victoria Land, Antarctic
  • 1404 Ajax, an asteroid

People

  • Ajax (missionary), Arian missionary who converted the Suevi to Christianity (c. 466)
  • Ajax Bukana (d. 2006), Ghanaian state comedian
  • Ajax Delgado (1941–1960), Nicaraguan student activist
  • Ajax, pen name of Sidney William Jackson (1873–1946), Australian naturalist and ornithologist
  • Ajax, nickname of Heinrich Bleichrodt (1909–1977), German World War II U-boat commander

Sport

Association football (soccer)

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • V.V. Ajax, a Surinamese football club

Other sports

  • Aias Evosmou, a Greek sports club
  • Ajax København, a Danish handball team
  • Ajax (horse) (born 1901), a French Champion racehorse
  • Ajax II (born 1934), an Australian Champion racehorse

Military

  • HMS Ajax, several ships of the Royal Navy
  • USS Ajax, several ships of the US Navy
  • General Dynamics Ajax, a family of armoured fighting vehicles for the British Army
  • Operation Ajax, the 1953 Iranian coup d'état

Transport

Motor vehicles

  • Ajax (1906 automobile), a Swiss automobile
  • Ajax (1913 automobile), a French automobile by the American Briscoe brothers
  • Ajax (1914 automobile), an American automobile by Ajax Motors Co. of Seattle, Washington
  • Ajax (Nash Motors), an automobile brand of Nash Motors, 1925–1926
  • Ajax Motors Co., an American carmaker, manufacturer of the Ajax (1914 automobile)

Railway

  • Ajax (locomotive), several train locomotives
  • Ajax GO Station, a train and bus station in Ajax, Ontario, Canada

Other transport

  • Ajax (motorcycle), manufactured in England between 1923 and 1924
  • Ajax (crane barge), a floating crane used to install the Panama Canal locks
  • Ajax (ship), various ships

Other uses

  • AFC Ajax N.V., a sports company associated with AFC Ajax
  • Ajax, a taxonomic synonym for the plant genus Narcissus
  • Ajax (cleaning product), a brand of household cleaning products
  • AJAX furnace, a type of open hearth furnace
  • Ajax High School, a public high school in Ajax, Ontario, Canada

See also

  • Ajax Mine (disambiguation)
  • Ayaks (disambiguation) (Russian: Аякс, romanized: Ayaks, lit.'Ajax')
  • All pages with titles beginning with Ajax
  • All pages with titles containing Ajax
  • Nike Ajax, the world's first operational surface-to-air missile