Yaeger is a surname, an Americanized form of Jäger.^[1] Notable people with the surname include:

• Bradley Yaeger (born 1985), Canadian ice dancer
• Edgar Yaeger (1904–1997), American modernist painter from Detroit, Michigan
• Gordon Yaeger who piloted the Bell Rocket Belt at the 1964 New York World Fair and in the James Bond movie Thunderball
• Larry Yaeger (1950), former Apple Distinguished Scientist, currently Full Professor of Informatics at Indiana University Bloomington
• Lynn Yaeger, former fashion reporter for The Village Voice, having worked for the paper for 30 years
• Morgan Yaeger (born 1998), Australian women's basketball player

• Hanna Gillian Kristina Jäger (born 1998), known professionally as Yaeger (singer), Swedish singer
• Lake Lou Yaeger, 1,300-acre (530 ha) reservoir located in Montgomery County, Illinois
• Yaeger Lake, a lake in Minnesota