Agar

Agar, a thickening or jellyfying agent extracted from red algae (microbiology and culinary uses)

Agar may also mean:

Geography

• Agar, India, a city and municipality in the state of Madhya Pradesh
• Agar, South Dakota, United States, a small town
• Agar, Turkmenistan, a town

People

• Allan Agar, British former rugby league footballer and coach
• Augustus Agar (1890–1968), British recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Edward Agar, conspirator in the Great Gold Robbery of 1855 and character in the novel The Great Train Robbery
• Eileen Agar (1899–1991), British painter and photographer
• George Agar, Australian rugby league footballer
• Herbert Agar (1897–1980), American journalist and editor, and Pulitzer Prize winner
• James Agar, 1st Viscount Clifden (1735–1788), Irish Member of Parliament
• John Agar (1921–2002), American actor and husband of Shirley Temple
• Mehmet Ağar (born 1951), Turkish former police chief, politician, government minister and leader of the Democratic Party
• Nat Agar (1888–1978), English-American soccer player, coach, referee, team owner and league executive
• Richard Agar, British rugby league coach
• Wilfred Eade Agar (1882–1951), Anglo-Australian zoologist
• Agar Wynne (1850–1934), Australian politician

Other uses

• Magyar agár, a breed of sighthound from Hungary, similar to the greyhound
• Agar (software), a set of open-source libraries for computer graphics
• Hagar (biblical), a Biblical character, sometimes spelled as Agar, and referred to by that name in the Epistle to the Galatians
• Agar gun, an early type of machine gun
• ICAO code for Ulawa Airport in the Solomon Islands

See also

• Agar Town, a short-lived area in central London

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