Badger (disambiguation)

A badger is any of several species of short-legged, heavy-set carnivores in the weasel family.

Badger may also refer to:

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

Fictional characters

 * 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.