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49er or Forty-Niner originally referred to a participant in the 1849 California Gold Rush.
49er or Forty-Niner may also refer to:
Sports
- San Francisco 49ers, American football team, named for the California Gold Rush prospectors
- Charlotte 49ers, athletic teams of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte
- Long Beach State 49ers, athletic teams of California State University, Long Beach
- Yuba 49ers, athletic teams of Yuba College
- 49er (dinghy), an Olympic class of racing dinghy
- Forty Niner (horse), American Thoroughbred racehorse
- Arsenal F.C., English football team which went 49 games unbeaten in 2003 and 2004
Music
- 49ers (band), an Italian Italo house and Eurodance project
- The 49ers, an American hip-hop duo
Other
- 49er flapjack, a sourdough crepe.
- Top 10: The Forty-Niners, a novel by Alan Moore and Gene Ha
- The Forty-Niners, a group of shōjo manga artists also known as the Year 24 Group
- "The 49ers", a group of Cathay Pacific Airways pilots fired on 9 July 2001
- 49er, the lowest initiated rank in a Triad
- A real ale brewed by the Ringwood Brewery with a strength, appropriately, of 4.9%
- A member of the 49th Battalion, CEF
- The Forty Niner or 49'er, a streamliner passenger train between San Francisco and Chicago operated by the Union Pacific Railroad
See also
- 49 (number)
- Forty-Eighters, Europeans involved in the revolutions of 1848
- Niner (disambiguation)
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