Yeager
Yeager is a mostly American surname, a phonetic transcription of the common German surname Jaeger (Jäger) , meaning hunter . [ 1]
Notable people with the surname include:
Albert F. Yeager , (1892-1961) American horticulturalistBiff Yeager , American actorBunny Yeager (1929–2014), American photographer and modelChuck Yeager (1923–2020), American test pilot who was the first person to break the sound barrierDan Yeager (born 1965), American actor, screenwriter, and directorGeorge Yeager (1874–1940), American baseball playerJames J. Yeager (1909–1971), American football player and coachJeana Yeager (born 1952), American aviatorJoe Yeager (1875–1937), American baseball playerJustin Yeager (born 1998), American baseball playerKen Yeager (born 1952), American politicianLaura Yeager , American Army generalLeland Yeager (1924–2018), American economistLewis Yeager (1878–1906), American football coachMeredith Yeager , American geneticistMike Yeager (born 1977), American football coachRalph Oscar Yeager (1892–1960), German-American architectRoy Yeager (born 1949), American musicianStephanie Yeager , American politicianSteve Yeager (born 1948), American major league baseball catcherSteve Yeager (filmmaker) (born 1948), American film directorWilliam Yeager (born 1940), best known for his development of the first multiple-protocol router software while working at Stanford University
Fictional characters
See also
References
^ Yaeger , Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Surnames derived from the occupation of
hunter English Germanic Romance Slavic Other
