Ginger (disambiguation)
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Ginger is a delicacy, medicine, or cooking spice made from the stem of the plant Zingiber officinale.
Ginger may also refer to:
Places
- Ginger, Washington, United States, an unincorporated community
- Ginger Island, part of the British Virgin Islands
- Ginger Islands, Antarctica
People
- Ginger (name), a list of people with the given name, nickname or surname
Arts and entertainment
Music
- Geri Halliwell (born 1972), nicknamed "Ginger Spice" when a member of the Spice Girls
- Ginger (band), a 1990s Canadian rock band, also their 1993 debut album
- Ginger (musician), stage name of English rock guitarist, singer and songwriter David Walls (born 1964)
- Ginger Fish (born 1966), stage name of American drummer Kenneth Robert Wilson, of Rob Zombie, former member of Marilyn Manson
- Ginger (album), an album by Speedy J
- Ginger, an album by The Figgs
- "Ginger", a 1997 song by David Devant & His Spirit Wife
Fictional characters
- Ginger (comics), in the British children's comic The Beezer
- Ginger, a sorrel mare in Anna Sewell's Black Beauty
- Ginger, a character in the television series The West Wing
- Ginger, a character in the Disney Fairies books
- Ginger, the main character in the film Chicken Run
- Ginger, a character in the television series Phineas and Ferb
- Ginger Foutley, in the TV series As Told by Ginger
- Ginger Grant, in the TV series Gilligan's Island
- Ginger, Ned Flanders' "Vegas wife." in The Simpsons
- Ginger Hebblethwaite, a main character in the Biggles series of books by W. E. Johns
- Ginger Meggs, in the Australian comic of the same name
Other
- Ginger (film), a 2013 Indian film
- Ginger: The Life and Death of Albert Goodwin a 1990 book by Susan Mayse
- Ginger (book), a children's picture book by Charlotte Voake
Organisations
- Ginger Group, a faction of radical Canadian Progressive and Labour Members of Parliament who advocated socialism
- Ginger Group (Queensland), a group of Liberal Party of Australia MLAs during the 1960s, 70s and 80s
Businesses
- Ginger Hotels, a chain of budget hotels across India
- Ginger Productions, a television production company
- Ginger Software, an Israeli company
Other uses
- In Britain, a term referring to people with red hair, sometimes used in a derogatory sense
- Hurricane Ginger, a 1971 Atlantic hurricane
- Ginger, the code name used for the Segway PT before its release
- Ginger, the nickname given to the first of the Egyptian Gebelein predynastic mummies
See also
- The London Overground, also known as the "Ginger line" for its color on the Tube map
- Ginger Collection, a collection of philatelic material
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