Redshirt
Red shirt, Redshirt or Redshirts may refer to:
Groups and movements
- Red Shirts (Taiwan) or Million Voices Against Corruption, President Chen Must Go
- Redshirts (Italy), followers of guerrilla leader Giuseppe Garibaldi
- Red Shirts (Mexico), a Mexican anti-Catholic paramilitary organization of the 1930s
- Red Shirts (Southern United States), militant group during and after the Reconstruction Era
- Red Shirts (Thailand), the National United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship, a political pressure group in Thailand
- Abahlali baseMjondolo or Red shirts, a South African shack-dwellers' movement
- Khudai Khidmatgar or Red Shirts, a Pashtun movement against British rule in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
- Red shirts were worn by the racist and antisemitic Bulgarian Ratniks
Education
- Redshirt (college sports), delaying a college athlete's participation in order to lengthen eligibility
- Redshirting (academic), the practice of postponing entrance into kindergarten
Entertainment
- Redshirt (character), a stock "cannon fodder" character
- Redshirts (novel), a 2012 novel by John Scalzi
- Red Shirts (film), a 1952 film about Anita Garibaldi by Franco Rossi
Places
- Red Shirt, South Dakota, a small Lakota village in South Dakota, United States
- Red Shirt Table, a table mountain in South Dakota
Other uses
- Red Shirt (Oglala), a chief of the Oglala Sioux tribe
- Red Shirt School of Photography, a trend pioneered by National Geographic photographers
- Red Shirt, a term used in Modern United States Navy carrier air operations
People with the name
- Delphine Red Shirt, an Oglala Lakota Sioux writer
- Red Shirt Gordon, American prison escapee
See also
- Kuilix, a Pend d'Oreilles tribal war leader from the Montana territories whose name translates as "Red Shirt" or "Red One"
- Lalkurti (literal translation: Red Shirt), a locality in the heart of Rawalpindi cantonment in Pakistan
- Red coat (disambiguation)
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