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)