Boomer

Boomer may refer to:

People

• Boomer (surname)
• Boomer (nickname)

Places

• Boomer Township, Pottawattamie County, Iowa
• Boomer Township, Wilkes County, North Carolina
• Boomer, West Virginia, a census-designated place
• Boomer Lake, an artificial reservoir in Stillwater, Oklahoma
• Boomers! Parks, a theme park / family entertainment center chain

Animals

• An adult male kangaroo, nicknamed "boomer" in Australia
• An alternate name for the Mountain Beaver

Fictional characters

Comics

• Owen Mercer, the current Captain Boomerang in the DC Comics universe, nicknamed "Boomer"
• Rotor Walrus, a character from Sonic the Hedgehog (comics), nicknamed "Boomer" in early issues
• Tabitha Smith, a Marvel Comics comic book superhero, formerly called Boomer
• a canine character, leader of the catapult all cats into the sun meetings in Pooch Cafe

Video games

• Boomers, a faction of xenophobic people in Fallout: New Vegas.
• The Boomer, a recurring Special Infected in the Left 4 Dead series.
• Boomers, heavily armored soldiers of the locust horde in the Gears of war series.
• Boomer, a character in the Skylanders video game, known for wielding explosives enthusiastically.
• Boomer, a playable clown character in the Ballz fighting game
• Boomer, a character that appeared in Super Mario RPG
• Boomer, a pixl in the game Super Paper Mario

Television

• Lieutenant Boomer, a character in the 1978 television series Battlestar Galactica
• Sharon Valerii, a character in the 2004 television series Battlestar Galactica, call-sign "Boomer"
• Boomer, an anthropomorphic tug boat from the 1989 TV series, Tugs
• Boomer (Bubblegum Crisis), a fictional synthetic life form in the anime series Bubblegum Crisis
• Boomer (Lilo & Stitch), experiment 288 from Lilo & Stitch: The Series
• Boomer, one of the two Targetmaster partners of Autobot chemist Quickmix in Transformers
• Boomer, the blond member of the Rowdyruff Boys, a trio of villains in the animated series The Powerpuff Girls
• Boomer Bledsoe, a member of Roger Klotz' gang in the animated series Doug
• Boomer, the title character, a dog, in the 1980 TV series Here's Boomer
• Boomer Parker, one of the twin protagonists of the American sitcom Pair of Kings
• Boomer, one of the main protagonists in the TV series Redakai: Conquer the Kairu
• Sue "Boomer" Jenkins, a character in the Australian drama series Wentworth
• Boomers (TV series), a 2014 BBC One television comedy series

Others

• Boomer, the alter ego of Tom DeLonge
• Boomer, a woodpecker in the 1981 animated Disney film The Fox and the Hound
• Captain Boomer, a British whaling ship captain who appears briefly in Herman Melville's Moby Dick
• Boomer, the redhead tomboy in Burger King Kids Club advertising
• Boomer, a monument statue by western artist Harold T. Holden, located in Enid, Oklahoma, dedicated in 1987

Sports

Teams

• Australia men's national basketball team, officially nicknamed "Australian Boomers"
• Bulleen Boomers, a basketball club based in Bulleen, a north-eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Calgary Boomers, a former professional association football team in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
• Melbourne Boomers, an Australian women's basketball club
• Schaumburg Boomers, a Frontier League baseball team based in Schaumburg, Illinois

Mascots

• Boomer, the Port Vale F.C. mascot
• Boomer (Pacers Mascot), the mascot of the Indiana Pacers
• Boomer the Bear, the mascot for the Spokane Chiefs Western Hockey League team
• Boomer and Sooner, the two mascots of the University of Oklahoma
• Buzz and Boomer, the official mascots of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers Canadian Football League team
• Boomer the Bulldog, the mascot of Dean College sports

In the military

• A ballistic missile submarine in American naval slang
• VT-27, a US Navy training squadron nicknamed the "Boomers"

Other uses

• Boomers (Oklahoma settlers), advocates for the opening of the Unassigned Lands of Oklahoma Territory for settlement
• The Boomers (band), a Canadian rock band from Ontario
• Boomer, a freeware pharmacokinetic modeling software

See also

• Baby boomer, someone who was born during the period following World War II
• The Boomer Project, a market research firm, headquartered in Richmond, Virginia
• Boom (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles containing boomer