Ager (surname)

Ager is an Anglo Saxon and Danish surname, and it derived from the given name Agar. Notable people with the surname include:


 * Andrew Ager (born 1962), Canadian composer
 * Cecelia Ager (1902–1981), American film critic
 * Christina Ager (born 1995), Austrian Alpine skier
 * Deborah Ager, American poet
 * John Ager (born 1949), American politician
 * Klaus Ager (born 1946), Austrian composer and conductor
 * Maurice Ager (born 1984), American basketball player
 * Maria Ager, Austrian chess master
 * Milton Ager (1893–1979), American pianist and composer
 * Nikolaus Ager (1568–1634), French botanist born in Alsace
 * Simon Ager (born 1970), British linguist and author of the online encyclopaedia Omniglot
 * Waldemar Ager (1869–1941), Norwegian-American newspaperman and author

Fictional characters

 * Captain Ager and Lady Ager, characters in the 1617 play A Fair Quarrel
 * William Ager, chief antagonist in M R James' 1925 ghost story A Warning to the Curious