Badger (disambiguation)

Badger refers to several species of short-legged, heavy-set carnivores in the weasel family.

Badger may also refer to:

Places

Australia

• Badger Island, Tasmania
• Little Badger Island, Tasmania

Canada

• Badger, Newfoundland and Labrador

United Kingdom

• Badger, Shropshire

United States

• Badger, California
• Badger Hill, California
• Badger, Iowa
• Badger, Minnesota
• Badger, South Dakota
• Badger, Wisconsin
• Badger's Island, Kittery, Maine
• Wisconsin, "The Badger State"
  • Wisconsin Badgers, the athletic teams of the University of Wisconsin–Madison
  • Bucky Badger, mascot of the University of Wisconsin–Madison

People

• George Edmund Badger (1795–1866), U.S. Senator from North Carolina
• George Percy Badger (1815–1888), English Anglican missionary and scholar of oriental studies
• Joseph Badger, American portrait artist
• Len Badger, English footballer for Sheffield United 1962–1976
• Luther Badger (1785-1869), US congressman from New York
• Owen Badger, Wales national rugby player
• Pat Badger, American musician
• Ruth Badger, British reality television contestant and TV presenter
• Steve Badger, American poker player
• William Badger, American politician, governor of New Hampshire
• William Badger (shipbuilder), American shipbuilder in Kittery, Maine

Music

• Badger (band), an early 1970s rock band featuring Tony Kaye
• Badger, an album by the Figgs

Fictional characters

For more details on this topic, see List of fictional badgers.

• Badger (comics) (The Badger), a comic book character and series created in 1982
• Badger (Firefly), a minor character from the American TV show Firefly
• Badger (Farthing Wood), a character from the animated children's television series The Animals of Farthing Wood
• Badger (Monarch of the Glen), a character from UK TV series Monarch of the Glen
• Badger Lord, the ruler of Salamandastron in the Redwall series by Brian Jacques
• Bill Badger, the main character of a series of books by Denys Watkins-Pitchford including Bill Badger and the Pirates
• Badger Beadon, a character from Why Didn't They Ask Evans? by Agatha Christie
• Badger, a character in the children's book The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
• Badger, a character in the English children's television programme Bodger and Badger

Transport

• S.S. Badger, an auto/passenger ferry operating on Lake Michigan, U.S.
• USS William Badger (1861), an American Civil War Union supply ship and ship's tender
• Tupolev Tu-16, NATO codename Badger, a Soviet twin-engine jet bomber
• British Rail Class 89, nicknamed "The Badger", an electric locomotive developed by British Rail
• Badger Armoured Engineering Vehicle, a Canadian Combat engineering vehicle based on the Leopard 1 tank
• Badger, an Amtrak train on the Chicago-Milwaukee (U.S.) corridor now served by the Hiawatha Service
• Badger Bus, a service between Milwaukee and Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.
• Badgerline, a bus company in the southwest of England
• Badger (automobile company), a car company in Wisconsin from 1910-1911

Other uses

• Badger (person), an archaic English term for a dealer in food
• Badger Badger Badger or Badgers, a short animation by Jonti Picking
• Badger Books, a British paperback imprint of the 1950s and '60s
• Badger Game, an extortion scheme
• Brock Badgers, athletics teams for Brock University, Canada
• Upshot-Knothole Badger, a 1953 nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site, U.S.
• Badger (TV series), a 1999 British series starring Jerome Flynn
• Badger, in law, to direct argumentative questions at a witness
• Badger Ales, beers brewed by Hall & Woodhouse
• Breezy Badger, a code name for version 5.10 of the Linux software Ubuntu
• St John Badger, a member of St John Ambulance aged 5–10