Redshirt

Red shirt, Redshirt or Redshirts may refer to:

Groups and movements

• Million Voices Against Corruption, President Chen Must Go, protesters against Chen Shui-bian, President of Taiwan, in 2007
• Redshirts (Italy) (Italian: Camicie rosse) followers of guerrilla leader Giuseppe Garibaldi.
• Red Shirts (Mexico) (Spanish: Camisas Rojas), a Mexican anti-Catholic paramilitary organization of the 1930s.
• Red Shirts (Southern United States), militant opponents of Blacks, carpetbaggers, and United States troops during and after the Reconstruction Era.
• Red shirts were worn by the racist and antisemitic Bulgarian Ratniks.
• Red Shirts (Thailand), the National United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship, a political pressure group in Thailand, supporting the deposed Prime Minister, Thaksin Shinawatra
• Red shirts, a name for the Abahlali baseMjondolo, a South African shack-dwellers' movement.
• Surkh Posh (Red Shirts), an alternative name for Khudai Khidmatgar, a Pashtun movement against British rule in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa

Individuals

• Red Shirt (Oglala), a chief of the Oglala Sioux tribe
• Delphine Red Shirt, an Oglala Lakota Sioux writer
• Kuilix, a Pend d'Oreilles tribal war leader from the Montana territories whose name translates as "Red Shirt" or "Red One"
• Red Shirt Gordon, American prison escapee

Education

• Redshirt (college sports), delaying a college athlete's participation in order to lengthen eligibility
• Redshirting (academic), the practice of postponing entrance into kindergarten of age-eligible children in order to allow extra time for emotional, intellectual or physical growth

Film, television and literature

• Redshirt (character), a stock "cannon fodder" character, originating in the original Star Trek TV series
  • Redshirt Blues, a 2001 Star Trek fan film parodying the use of redshirts
  • Redshirts (novel), a 2012 novel by John Scalzi that also parodies the Star Trek trope
• Red Shirts (film), a 1952 film about Anita Garibaldi, the wife of Giuseppe Garibaldi, directed by Franco Rossi

Places

• Lalkurti (literal translation: Red Shirt), a name for many localities in India and Pakistan
• Red Shirt, South Dakota, a small Lakota village in South Dakota, United States
• Red Shirt Table, a table mountain in South Dakota

Other

• Red Shirt School of Photography, a trend pioneered by National Geographic photographers
• Red Shirt, a term used for US Navy aircraft–carrier personnel who deal with ordnance and fire-fighting, see Modern United States Navy carrier air operations
• Redshirt (college sports), an athlete whose participation is delayed or suspended in order to lengthen their period of eligibility

See also

• Red coat (disambiguation)