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'''Yeager''' is a mostly [[Americans|American]] surname, a phonetic [[Anglicisation of names|transcription]] of the common German surname [[Jäger (surname)|Jaeger (Jäger)]], meaning [[hunter]]. <ref>[https://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=yaeger Yaeger], Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022</ref>
Notable people with the surname include:
*[[Albert F. Yeager]], (1892-1961) American horticulturalist
*[[Biff Yeager]], American actor
*[[Bunny Yeager]] (1929–2014), American photographer and model
*[[Chuck Yeager]] (1923–2020), American test pilot who was the first person to break the sound barrier
*[[Dan Yeager]] (born 1965), American actor, screenwriter, and director
*[[George Yeager]] (1874–1940), American baseball player
*[[James J. Yeager]] (1909–1971), American football player and coach
*[[Jeana Yeager]] (born 1952), American aviator
*[[Joe Yeager]] (1875–1937), American baseball player
*[[Justin Yeager]] (born 1998), American baseball player
*[[Ken Yeager]] (born 1952), American politician
*[[Laura Yeager]], American Army general
*[[Leland Yeager]] (1924–2018), American economist
*[[Lewis Yeager]] (1878–1906), American football coach
*[[Meredith Yeager]], American geneticist
*[[Mike Yeager]] (born 1977), American football coach
*[[Ralph Oscar Yeager]] (1892–1960), German-American architect
*[[Roy Yeager]] (born 1949), American musician
*[[Stephanie Yeager]], American politician
*[[Steve Yeager]] (born 1948), American major league baseball catcher
*[[Steve Yeager (filmmaker)]] (born 1948), American film director
*[[William Yeager]] (born 1940), best known for his development of the first multiple-protocol router software while working at Stanford University
==Fictional characters==
*[[Eren Yeager]], main character of the manga and anime ''[[Attack on Titan]]'', also spelled Jaeger in some translations
*[[Zeke Yeager]], (827-854) Eldian Marleyan War Chief from ''Attack on Titan''
*Cade and Tessa Yeager, characters from ''[[Transformers: Age of Extinction]]''
*[[Charlotte E. Yeager]], character from the anime ''[[Strike Witches]]'', based on Chuck Yeager as her ace archetype
==See also==
*[[Jagger (disambiguation)]]
*[[Jagr (disambiguation)]]
==References==
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