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Contents 1 Mythology and literature 2 Vehicles 3 Fiction 4 Music 5 Sport 6 Places 7 Other uses

Ajax can refer to:

[edit] Mythology and literature

• Ajax (mythology), also known as Telamonian Ajax or Ajax the Great, a Greek hero and legendary king of Salamis who plays an important role in Homer's Iliad
• Ajax the Lesser, or Oilean Ajax, a Greek hero and legendary king of Locris who appears in Homer's Iliad
• Ajax (Sophocles), a tragedy by the Greek playwright Sophocles, whose main character is Telamonian Ajax

[edit] Vehicles

• Ajax (1906 automobile), Aigner, Switzerland
• Ajax (1913 automobile), Briscoe, France
• 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 - 1884), one of the eight South Devon Railway Dido class steam locomotives

[edit] Fiction

• Ajax (Mickey Mouse), a fictional cartoon company
• Ajax Duckman, a character in the animated television series Duckman
• Martian Manhunter, a comic superhero called Ajax in Brazil
• Ajax, character from the 1979 film The Warriors, played by James Remar
• War Rocket Ajax, a weapon deployed by Ming the Merciless in the 1980 film Flash Gordon

[edit] Music

• Ajax (band), from New York City
• Ajax Records (Chicago), a record label
• Ajax Records (Quebec), a record label active in the 1920s

[edit] Sport

• Ajax America (Also known as Ajax Orlando), an American soccer team from Orlando, Florida, United States
• Ajax Amsterdam, an association football club from Amsterdam, the Netherlands
• Ajax Cape Town, a South African association football club
• Ajax Kenitra, a Moroccan futsal (indoor football) club
• Ajax (horse), a champion Australian racehorse of the 1930s
• Rabat Ajax, a Maltese football club
• Ajax Skoteras, a Greek football team from "Skotera" village in Aitoloakarnania, Greece
• Ajax Sportman Combinatie (ASC), a cricket and football club in Leiden, The Netherlands

[edit] Places

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

[edit] Other uses

• Ajax (programming) (shorthand for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), a technique used in web application development
• Ajax (arcade game), vertically scrolling shoot 'em up arcade game released by Konami in 1987
• Ajax cleanser, household cleaner
• Ajax brand, the Disney equivilent of the Looney Tunes’ Acme Corporation
• 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
• 1404 Ajax, an asteroid
• Ajax, an early flush toilet invented in England in 1596

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