Jiggs

Jiggs may refer to:

Animals

• Jiggs (chimpanzee), who originated the role of Cheeta in the Tarzan movies
• Jiggs (orangutan), held in the Universal City Zoo and San Diego Zoo in the early 20th century
• Jiggs II, the second of a number of English Bulldogs to serve as mascots of the United States Marine Corps

Communities

• Jiggs, Nevada, an unincorporated community in Elko County

People

Nickname

Military figures

• Frank Borland (1925–2013), Canadian Second World War soldier, recipient of the French Legion of Honor
• C. H. Jaeger (1913–1970), British Army lieutenant colonel and military band leader

Sportspeople

• George "Jiggs" Dahlberg, head coach of the 1945 Montana Grizzlies football team
• Edward Donahue (c. 1891–1961), American multi-sport college athlete, coach and administrator
• Jiggs Donahue (1879–1913), American professional baseball player
• John Donahue (baseball) (1894–1949), American professional baseball player
• Jiggs McDonald (born 1938), Canadian hockey sportscaster
• Jiggs Parrott (1871–1898), American professional baseball player
• Jiggs Parson (1885–1967), American professional baseball pitcher
• Jiggs Peters, race car driver in the 1954 AAA Championship Car season, among others
• Don Peterson (American football) (1928–2010), American college football player

Other

• Jiggs Kalra (1947–2019), Indian restaurateur, food columnist, television host, and author
• Jiggs Whigham (born 1943), American jazz trombonist

Fictional characters

• Jiggs, star of American comic strip Bringing Up Father, with his wife Maggie, from 1913 to 2000
  • Jiggs and Maggie (film series), a series of films with those characters, from 1946 to 1950
• Jiggs, a major character in the 1935 novel Pylon by William Faulkner
• Colonel Martin "Jiggs" Casey, in the 1964 film Seven Days in May, played by Kirk Douglas
• Jillian Jiggs, in children's books by Phoebe Gilman
• Master Sergeant Jiggs, Chief of Security for Project Tic-Toc in the Irwin Allen Television Series The Time Tunnel, portrayed by Wesley Lau

Other

• Jiggs dinner, a traditional meal commonly prepared and eaten on Sundays in Newfoundland

See also

• All pages with titles containing Jiggs
• Jig (disambiguation)