Ajax
Ajax may refer to:
Mythology
- Ajax the Great, son of Telamon and a hero in the Trojan war
- Ajax the Lesser, son of Oileus and also a hero in the Trojan war
People
- Ajax (missionary), Arian missionary who converted the pagan Suevi c. 466
Information Technology
- Ajax (programming) (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), a technique used in web application development
- Ajax framework, a framework for the Ajax technique
- Ajax (floppy disk controller), a floppy disk controller fitted to the Atari STE
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.
- Unión Ájax, a football club in Trujillo, Honduras.
Horse Racing
- Ajax (horse), a champion Australian racehorse of the 1930s
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 (American automobile), Nash Motors, 1925–1926, U.S.
- Ajax Electric (automobile), electric, U.S., introduced 1901 in New York
- 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
Fiction
- 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
- Ajax (Dune), one of the 12 cyborg titans who ruled mankind in the Legends of Dune novels by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson before Omnius the Evermind gained control.
- Rocket Ajax - From the film Flash Gordon
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
Places
- Ajax, Ontario, a town in Canada
- Ajax GO Station, a station in the GO Transit network located in the town
- Aspen Mountain (Colorado), also known as Ajax Mountain
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.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; from the article "Ajax". Image Credit.
