Ajax Explained
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
Arts and entertainment
Fictional characters
- Ajax Duckman, in the animated television series Duckman
- Marvel Comics:
- Martian Manhunter, a DC Comics superhero called Ajax in Brazil and Portugal
- Ajax, a operative
- Ajax, a Genshin Impact playable character; see Tartaglia
Music
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
Places
Canada
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
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
Military
- , several ships of the Royal Navy
- , 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
- 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 (1921 automobile), an American prototype that was not produced
- Ajax (Nash Motors), an automobile brand of Nash Motors, 1925–1926
- 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 (ship), various ships
- Ajax GO Station, a train and bus station in Ajax, Ontario, Canada
- Ajax Motors Co., an American carmaker, manufacturer of the Ajax (1914 automobile)
Other uses
See also
- Nike Ajax, the world's first operational surface-to-air missile
- Ayaks, a hypersonic waverider aircraft program started in the Soviet Union
