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American(s) may refer to:

• American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America"
  • Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America
  • American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American"
  • American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States
  • Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States
• American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America"
  • Indigenous peoples of the Americas
• American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts

Organizations

• American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas
• American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference
• American Recordings (record label), a record label that was previously known as Def American
• American University, in Washington, D.C.

Sports teams

Soccer

• Baltimore Americans, the name of two soccer teams, one from 1939 to 1942 and one from 1942 to 1948
• Chicago Americans, a soccer team in 1972
• Dallas Americans, a soccer team from 1983 to 1985
• Hartford Americans, a soccer team from 1927 to 1928
• Miami Americans, a reincarnation of the New Jersey Americans in 1980
• New Jersey Americans (soccer), a soccer team from 1976 to 1979
• New York Americans (soccer), a soccer team from 1931 to 1956
• Uhrik Truckers, a soccer team known from 1941 to 1953 as the Philadelphia Americans

Hockey

• Allen Americans, a minor league hockey team
• New York Americans, an ice hockey team from 1925 to 1942
• Rochester Americans, a minor league ice hockey franchise in the American Hockey League (AHL)
• Seattle Totems, an ice hockey team known from 1955 to 1958 as the Seattle Americans
• Tri-City Americans, a junior ice hockey team

Baseball

• Boston Red Sox, a baseball team known from 1901 until 1907 as the Boston Americans
• Nashville Americans, an 1885–1886 minor league baseball team
• American League, a professional baseball league organized in 1901
• American Association (disambiguation), a name used by several professional baseball leagues

Basketball

• Brooklyn Nets, a basketball team known in the 1960s as the New York Americans and New Jersey Americans
• Oakland Oaks (ABA), a basketball team known briefly in 1967 as the Oakland Americans

American football

• Pittsburgh Americans, an American football team from 1936 until 1937
• New York Yankees (1940 AFL), an American football team known as the New York Americans in 1941

Vehicles

• American (1899 automobile), by American Automobile Company, New York City
• American (1902 automobile), by American Motor Carriage Company, Cleveland
• American (1911 automobile), by American Automobile Manufacturing Company founded in Missouri
• American (1914 automobile), by American Cyclecar Company, Michigan
• American (1917 automobile), built in New Jersey
• American Motors Corporation (AMC), automobile manufacturing company (1954–1988)
• Rambler American, a compact line of cars by American Motors Corporation (1958–1969)
• USS American, several ships of the US Navy
• 4-4-0, a classification of railway locomotive described as the American type

Music

• American (album), a 2017 studio album by RuPaul
• "American", a song by Fish Karma
• "American" (Lana Del Rey song), 2012
• AmericanEP, an extended play album by English electronica duo The Chemical Brothers
• American Quartet (Dvořák), a string quartet by Antonín Dvořák

Places

• American Canyon, a city in Northern California
• American Falls (disambiguation)
• American River (disambiguation)
• American Township, Ohio
• American Township, a former township in Sacramento County, California

Other uses

• American cheese, a type of processed cheese
• American McGee (born 1972), American video game designer
• American (RuPaul's Drag Race), a television episode

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with American
• All pages with titles containing American
• America (disambiguation)
• Americana (disambiguation)
• Armorican (disambiguation)
• The American (disambiguation)
• The Americans (disambiguation)
• List of automobile manufacturers of the United States
• American Made (disambiguation)
• Pan-American (disambiguation)
• Anti-American