99 (disambiguation)

99 ("ninety-nine") is a year.

99 may also refer to:

Number

• 99 (number)

Date

• 99 BC
• 1999, the year 1999 AD

Art, entertainment, and media

Comics

• The 99, a comic series based on Islamic culture

Fictional entities

• Agent 99, a fictional character in the 1960s American TV series Get Smart, played by Barbara Feldon
• 99, the jersey number worn by the Cleveland Indians player (portrayed by Charlie Sheen) in the fictional film Major League (1989)
• 99, the jersey number played by Adam Banks in The Mighty Ducks

Films

• 99 (1918 film), a Hungarian film by Michael Curtiz
• 99 (2009 film), an Indian film

Games

• '99: The Last War, a renamed version of the arcade game Repulse
• Ninety-nine (addition card game), a simple card game with a running total; players drop out if forced to bring the total above 99
• Ninety-nine (trick-taking card game)

Music

Record labels

• 99 Records, a record label

Albums

• 99 (Epik High album), 2012
• 99 (No-Big-Silence album), 1997

Songs

• "99" (Fightstar song)
• "99" (song), a 1980 song by Toto from Hydra
• "99 Bottles of Beer", is a well-known folk song in Canada and the United States
• "99 Problems", the third single released by American rapper Jay-Z from The Black Album (2004)
• "99", a song by The Haunted from the album rEVOLVEr
• "99", a song by the band Toto, written in reference to the movie THX-1138 (1971)
• "99 Luftballons" (German Neunundneunzig Luftballons, "99 balloons"), an anti-nuclear protest song by the German band Nena, from their 1983 self-titled album

Performers

• Ninety-nine (owarai), a Japanese comedic duo best known for their show Mecha-Mecha Iketeru!
• ninetynine, an Australian indie band

Radio

• WNNX (99X), classic "Rock 100.5" FM, in Atlanta, Georgia

Aviation

• "99 Aircraft" or simply "99", a radio call on certain aircraft radio frequencies that, in U.S. naval aviation operations aboard aircraft carriers, means that all aircraft from the same ship, wing, squadron, or formation should be alert to the subsequent radio transmission
• Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots founded by Amelia Earhart and others

Commercial brands

• 99, a brand of tea produced by The Co-operative Group in the UK
• 99, a line of schnapps fruit brandy produced by Barton Brands
• 99 Flake, also known as "99", a type of soft serve ice cream sold with a Cadbury Flake pressed into the ice cream such that roughly half the flake is visible
• Ninety Nine Restaurant, one of the brand names of O'Charley's and American Blue Ribbon Holdings
• Saab 99, a car

Roads

• List of highways numbered 99

Science

• 99, the atomic number of Einsteinium, an actinide
• Messier 99, aka M99, a spiral galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices
• NGC 99, an NGC object, a spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces
• STS-99, a Space Shuttle Endeavour mission launched in 2000

Sports

• 99, the only number retired league-wide in the National Hockey League, in honor of Wayne Gretzky
• 99, the highest jersey number allowed in most major league sports (uniform numbers are limited to two digits)
• 99, the NBA record for Most Free Throw Attempts in a seven-game series, set by Elgin Baylor of the Los Angeles Lakers in 1962
• 99, Greg Moore's Champ Car number, which was retired after his fatal accident
• 99 call, a pre-emptive rugby union strategy devised by Willie John McBride, during the 1974 British Lions tour to South Africa
• Car #99, the NASCAR vehicle owned by Roush Fenway Racing
• Graz 99ers, an Austrian ice hockey team from the city of Graz

Other uses

• .99, a common price ending in psychological pricing (e.g., $1.99 as opposed to $2.00)
• 99 Names of Allah, the names or attributes of God in the Qur'an

See also

• 99% (disambiguation)
• 99ers, U.S. Citizens who have exhausted all their unemployment benefits
• 99ers, the 1999 U.S. Women's soccer team
• 99X (disambiguation)