Badger (disambiguation)

A badger is any of 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, Alaska
• Badger, California
• Badger Hill, California
• Badger, Iowa
• Badger, Minnesota
• Badger, South Dakota
• Badger, Washington
• Badger, Wisconsin
• Badger Valley, a valley in Wisconsin
• Badger's Island, Kittery, Maine
• Wisconsin, "The Badger State"
  • Bucky Badger, mascot of the University of Wisconsin–Madison
  • Wisconsin Badgers, the athletic teams of the University of Wisconsin–Madison

People

• Badger (person), an archaic English term for a dealer in food
• Badger (surname)
• Dorgon, a Manchu prince and Emperor of the Qing dynasty, whose name literally means "badger" in Manchu

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

Further information: List of fictional badgers

• Badger (comics), a comic book character and series created in 1982
• Badger (Firefly), a minor character from the American TV show Firefly
• Badger (Monarch of the Glen), a character from UK TV series Monarch of the Glen
• Badger, a character in the children's book The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
• Badger, a character in the children's novel The Animals of Farthing Wood by Colin Dann
• Badger, a character in the English children's television programme Bodger and Badger
• Badger (Breaking Bad), a character in the television show Breaking Bad
• Bill Badger, the main character of a series of books by Denys Watkins-Pitchford including Bill Badger and the Pirates
• Lt. Cdr. Robert Badger (The Artful Bodger), a character in several John Winton naval novels
• Badger Beadon, a character from Why Didn't They Ask Evans? by Agatha Christie
• Badger Lords, of whom there are several in the Redwall series by Brian Jacques
• Badger Myer, the younger brother in the film Better Off Dead

Music

• Badger (band), an early 1970s rock band featuring Tony Kaye, ex-Yes
• Badger, an album by The Figgs

Television

• Badger (TV series), a 1999 British series starring Jerome Flynn
• "The Badger", Season 2, Episode 9 of Ozark

Other arts, entertainment, and media

• Badgers (animation) or Badger Badger Badger, a short animation by Jonti Picking
• Badger Books, a British paperback imprint of the 1950s and '60s
• The Badger (newspaper), a newspaper published by the University of Sussex

Transport

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

Other uses

• Badger, to direct argumentative questions at a person
• Badger, the South African variant of the Finnish Patria AMV (Armored Modular Vehicle)
• Badger Ales, beers brewed by Hall & Woodhouse
• Badger Game, an extortion scheme
• Breezy Badger, a code name for version 5.10 of the Linux software Ubuntu
• Brock Badgers, athletics teams for Brock University, Canada
• St John Badger, a youth member (aged 5–10) of the St John Ambulance voluntary organisation
• Upshot-Knothole Badger, a 1953 nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site, U.S.

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Badger
• All pages with titles containing Badger
• Bâdgir, an Iranian windcatcher