Ginger (disambiguation)

Ginger commonly refers to a plant used as a spice in cooking. However, there are a number of other potential meanings:

Plants

• Myoga, a Japanese plant also used in foods such as miso soup
• Boesenbergia rotunda, a medicinal and culinary herb from China and Southeast Asia
• Etlingera eliator , also called Torch Ginger, a species of herbaceous perennial plant
• Alpinia purpurata, also called Red Ginger, Ostrich Plume or Pink Cone Ginger
• Wild ginger, any species from the Asarum genus of herbaceous plants

People

Musicians

• Ginger (singer) (born 1964), member of the Wildhearts
• Ginger Baker (born 1939), member of the band Cream
• Ginger Fish (born 1965), member of the band Marilyn Manson
• Ginger Reyes (born 1980), member of Smashing Pumpkins
• Geri Halliwell (born 1972), also called "Ginger Spice," member of the Spice Girls

Actors

• Ginger Lynn (born 1962), a B-movie actress and porn star
• Ginger Rogers (1911–1995), actress and dancer best known for movie pairings with Fred Astaire

Others

• Ginger (mummy), the oldest known Egyptian mummy
• Albert "Ginger" Goodwin (1887–1918), labour activist

Fictional characters

• Ginger Hebblethwaite, a main character in the Biggles series of books by W.E. Johns
• Ginger (comics), a character in the British children's comic The Topper
• Ginger, a character in the TV series The West Wing
• Ginger Foutley, a character in the TV series As Told By Ginger
• Ginger Grant, a character in the TV series Gilligan's Island
• Ginger Meggs, a character in the Australian comic of the same name
• A character in the film Chicken Run

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Media and entertainment

• Ginger (album), an album by Speedy J
• Ginger (band), a Canadian music group
• Ginger (book)
• Ginger (1971 film), a 1971 exploitation film
• Ginger Snaps, a Canadian werewolf film directed by John Fawcett
• Ginger Productions, a television production company
• An album by the Figgs
• As Told by Ginger, an American Emmy nominated animated series that premiered on Nickelodeon in October 2000.
• Ginger Kids, a South Park episode

Food & beverage

• Ginger ale
• Ginger beer
• Ginger wine
• Gingersnaps
• Ginger milk curd
• Gari, a type of tsukemono (pickled vegetable)

Other meanings

• Hurricane Ginger (1971)
• Segway PT, a transportation device
• A pejorative term for a person with red hair and freckles
• Rhyming slang for a male homosexual: "Ginger beer" rhymes with "Queer"
• Ginger Group, a faction of radical Canadian Progressive and Labour Members of Parliament who advocated socialism