Pepper

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Pepper or Peppers may refer to:

Plants and plant products

The genus Piper of the pepper family (Piperaceae), including for example:

• Black pepper, white and green pepper, Piper nigrum
• Cubeb, Piper cubeba, also known as Java pepper
• Indian long pepper, Piper longum
• Indonesian long pepper, Piper retrofractum
• Voatsiperifery, Piper borbonense
• Ashanti pepper, Piper guineense

The genus Capsicum of the nightshade family (Solanaceae), including for example:

• Banana pepper, a number of species and spices
• Bell pepper, a Capsicum annuum cultivar
• Cayenne pepper, a Capsicum annuum cultivar
• Chili pepper, a number of species
• Datil pepper, a Capsicum chinense cultivar
• Jalapeño, a Capsicum annuum cultivar
• Florina pepper, a Capsicum annuum cultivar

The genus Pimenta (genus) of the myrtle family (Myrtaceae), including for example:

• Allspice (P. dioicia)
• Pimenta haitiensis
• Pimenta jamaicensis
• Pimenta obscura
• Pimenta racemosa (P. racemosa), West Indian bay tree

Other plants known as peppers:

• Aframomum melegueta, grains of paradise
• Alligator pepper
• Macropiper excelsum, kawakawa
• Pepper dulse, Osmundea pinnatifida, a red seaweed
• Pseudowintera, horopito
• Pseudowintera colorata, New Zealand Pepperwood
• Schinus genus, peppercorn trees
  • "Pink peppercorns", obtained from Schinus molle
• Tasmanian pepper, Mountain pepper or "pepperbush", Tasmannia species
• Vitex agnus-castus, Monk's pepper
• Water pepper, Persicaria hydropiper
• Zanthoxylum genus
  • Sichuan pepper, produced from the fruit of several Zanthoxylum species
• Zanthoxylum clava-herculis, American Pepperwood

People

• Pepper (name)
• Peppers (name)

Fictional characters

• Pepper, an orphan girl in the musical Annie
• Pepper, a Dutch Warmblood horse with light blue highlights from the Horseland TV series
• Pepper, a bartender in the musical Mamma Mia! (and the movie Mamma Mia! The Movie)
• Pepper (wrestler), a female professional wrestler from the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling
• Pepper Roni, the protagonist of the Lego Island series
• Pepper Ann, the main character from the Disney TV series Pepper Ann
• Pepper Potts, the secretary of Iron Man in the Marvel comics universe
• Chris Pepper, character played by Peter Lawford in 1969 film comedy One More Time, directed by Jerry Lewis
• Peppa Pig, the main character of the show of the same name Peppa Pig
• Sgt. Floyd Pepper, a character from The Muppet Show and related works
• Sgt. Leann "Pepper" Anderson, the central character in the 1970s Police Woman TV series, played by Angie Dickinson
• Sheriff J.W. Pepper, a Louisiana parish officer in the James Bond films Live and Let Die and The Man with the Golden Gun
• Waldo Pepper, protagonist of the film The Great Waldo Pepper
• Five Little Peppers, a family with five children in a children's literature series
• Pepper Saltzman, a recurring character played by Nathan Lane in Modern Family
• Pepper, the main human character of the webcomic Pepper&Carrot

Music

• Pepper (band), a rock-reggae band originally from Hawaii
• "Pepper" (song), a 1996 song by the alternative rock band Butthole Surfers
• Red Hot Chili Peppers, an American funk rock band, sometimes referred to in short as "the Peppers"
• "Pepper", an instrumental song by Linkin Park from LP Underground 12
• Salt-n-Pepa, an American hip hop duo
• Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (often referred to simply as Sgt. Pepper's), the eighth studio album by English rock band the Beatles
• The Peppers, a French male instrumental group that reached No. 8 in the UK Singles Chart in 1974 with the tune "Pepper Box"

Other

• Dr Pepper, a carbonated soft drink
• Newark Pepper, a defunct Major League Baseball team from the Federal League
• Perets', a Ukrainian satirical newspaper also known as "Pepper"
• sports warm-up exercises
  • Pepper (baseball)
  • Pepper (volleyball)
• Pepper (card game), an alternate name for Bid Euchre
• Pepper (cryptography), secret value added to for example a password before hashing
• Pepper Ann, an animated series that debuted in 1997
• PPAPI (Pepper Plugin API), a web browser plugin interface
• Pepper II, an early 1980s video game by Exidy
• Pepper (robot), a humanoid robot by Aldebaran Robotics and SoftBank Mobile*
• Little Mirchi Thoda Pepper, an Indian soap opera

See also

• All pages with titles containing Pepper