Ginger (disambiguation)

The word ginger has many meanings:

Food and drink

• Ginger is Zingiber officinale or any other of the species of plant in the genus Zingiber or family Zingiberaceae.
• Japanese ginger, also known as myoga, is Zingiber mioga from the same genus.
• Chinese ginger, sometimes known as fingerroot, is Boesenbergia rotunda from the same family .
• Torch Ginger is the Ginger Flower Etlingera elatior, the buds of the showy pink flowers being an important ingredient in laksa.
• Wild ginger refers to any species from the unrelated Asarum genus, named so because their roots have a ginger-like taste.
• Ginger beer and ginger ale are ginger-flavored, carbonated soft drinks. "Ginger" is also a common name for a soft drink in Scotland, mainly thanks to Irn-Bru.
• Gingerbread is a cake flavored with powdered ginger root.
• Gingersnaps or Ginger biscuits are hard gingerbread cookies.

People

• Albert Goodwin (1887–1918), a labour activist nicknamed “Ginger” who led a strike at Trail, British Columbia, Canada
• Ginger Rogers (1911–1995), actress and dancer best known for movie pairings with Fred Astaire
• Ginger Baker (born 1935), percussionist for the British 1960s rock band Cream
• Ginger Lynn (born 1962), a B-movie actress and porn star
• Ginger (singer) (born 1964), the lead singer and guitarist of British rock band The Wildhearts
• Ginger Fish (born 1965), stage name of American drummer Kenneth Robert Wilson of the band Marilyn Manson
• Geri Halliwell (born 1972), "Ginger Spice" of the Spice Girls
• Ginger Reyes (born 1980), bassist for Smashing Pumpkins
• Ginger, the earliest known Egyptian mummy, dating back to approximately 3300 BC; so named for his red hair

Characters

• Ginger Grant, a character from Gilligan's Island
• Ginger, a chicken and main character from Chicken Run
• Ginger (comics), a regular character in the British children's comic, the Topper
• Ginger Foutley, main character in the children's animated series As Told By Ginger
• Ginger Meggs, main character in the Australian comic of the same name
• Captain Eddy “Ginger” Littlejohn, a minor character in Vile Bodies
• Ginger (The West Wing), a recurring character in The West Wing
• Ginger, a chestnut-colored mare in Black Beauty

Other Proper Names

• Ginger (band) is a Canadian rock band formed by former members of The Grapes of Wrath
• Ginger (album), a 1993 release by Speedy J
• Ginger, a 1992 cassette-only album by the Figgs
• Ginger Snaps (film), and its sequel Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed, Canadian horror films
• Hurricane Ginger (1971), an Atlantic hurricane that hit North Carolina
• Ginger (book), a children's book by Charlotte Voake
• The development code-name for the Segway Human Transporter was Ginger

Miscellaneous

• Ginger Productions - a TV productions company, owned by SMG plc.
• "Ginger hair" is a term used to describe a light reddish-brown or orangish hair color, along with pale skin and freckles.:
  • A ginger is also a slang term for (in the UK sometimes pronounced derisively /giŋə/ rather than /dʒindʒə/) someone with red hair. Also, sometimes it is seen as a term of disparagement, or sometimes even a racial slur, for someone with redish hair.
  • In British English a ginger cat is a domestic cat with an orange coat.
• Ginger in Cockney rhyming slang means queer, as in homosexual (from ginger beer).