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