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)

1. Jiggs dinner
2. Bringing Up Father
3. Jiggs Kalra
4. Cheeta
5. Jiggs (chimpanzee)
6. Jiggs McDonald
7. Jiggs II
8. Jiggs Whigham
9. Jiggs Donahue
10. Jiggs, Nevada
11. Tijuana bible
12. Jiggs and Maggie (film series)
13. Jiggs and Maggie in Court
14. Jiggs and Maggie in Society
15. Zorawar Kalra
16. Clifton "Jiggs" Chase
17. Jiggs and Maggie Out West
18. Bacon and cabbage
19. Joe Yule
20. Nevada State Route 228