Wager
# Wager

Wager can refer to:

## Gambling

* Wager, the amount of a valuable staked when gambling on an event with an uncertain outcome, with the primary intent of winning money or material goods
* Legal wager, required by both parties at the preliminary hearing, under the early Roman Republic's Legis Actiones procedure
* Scientific wager, a wager whose outcome is settled by scientific method

## People with the name

* Wager Swayne (1834–1902), American military Governor
* Sir Charles Wager (1666–1743), British Admiral
* David Wager (1804–1870), New York politician
* Gregg Wager (born 1958), American composer
* Harold Wager (1862–1929), British botanist
* Lawrence Wager (1904–1965), British geologist, explorer and mountaineer
* Michael Wager (1925–2011), American actor
* Tor Wager, American neuroscientist
* Walter Wager (1924–2004), American novelist

## Ships of the Royal Navy

* HMS Wager (1739), a square-rigged sixth-rate Royal Navy ship wrecked in 1741
* Wager Mutiny, mutiny that occurred after loss of HMS Wager in 1741
* HMS Wager (R98), a W-class destroyer launched in 1943

## Films

* The Wager (1998 film), a short film
* The Wager (2007 film), a feature film

## Literature

* The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder, a 2023 nonfiction book by David Grann
