Ginger (name)

Ginger is an English given name, nickname, and surname.

People with the given name

 * Ginger Costa-Jackson (born 1986), American opera singer
 * Ginger Gilmour (born 1949), American artist, former wife of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour, born Virginia Hasenbein
 * Ginger Helgeson-Nielsen (born 1968), American tennis player
 * Ginger Huber, American diver, high diving silver medalist in the 2013 World Aquatics Championships
 * Ginger Lynn (born 1962), American pornographic actress
 * Ginger Molloy (born 1937), former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer from New Zealand
 * Ginger Riley Munduwalawala (c. 1937–2002), Australian Aboriginal artist
 * Ginger Pooley (born 1977), rock musician and singer formerly with The Smashing Pumpkins
 * Ginger Stanley (1931–2023), American model, actress and stunt woman
 * Ginger Strand, 21st century American essayist, novelist, environmental writer, and historian
 * Ginger Brooks Takahashi (born 1977), American artist
 * Ginger Williams (singer) (born 1953), Jamaican-born British lovers rock singer

People with the nickname

 * Ginger Baker (1939–2019), English drummer, founder of the rock band Cream
 * Albert "Ginger" Baker (born c. 1951), Northern Irish former loyalist and ex-British Army soldier convicted of four murders
 * Ginger Beaumont (1876–1956), Major League Baseball player
 * William Boyle, 12th Earl of Cork (1873–1967), Royal Navy Admiral of the Fleet
 * Ginger Colton (1875–c. 1946), Australian rugby union player
 * Albert Goodwin (1887–1918), Canadian labour leader and union activist
 * Geri "Ginger Spice" Halliwell (born 1972), British singer-songwriter and former member of the Spice Girls
 * Ginger Johnson (1916–1975), Nigerian percussionist and bandleader in London
 * Ginger Jones (1905–1986), Welsh boxer
 * James Harry Lacey (1917–1989), Royal Air Force fighter ace
 * Ginger Lees (1905–?), British motorcycle speedway rider
 * Ginger McCain (1930–2011), English National Hunt horse trainer
 * Ginger Minj (born 1984), American drag queen and contestant on the RuPaul's Drag Race series.
 * JJ "Ginger" O'Connell (1887–1944), member of the Irish Republican Army, general (later demoted to colonel) in the Irish Defence Forces
 * W. G. Richardson (1909–1959), English footballer
 * Ginger Rogers (1911–1995), American actress, dancer, and singer.
 * Ginger Shinault (1892–1930), American Major League Baseball player
 * Ginger Smock (1920–1995), American violinist, orchestra leader and local Los Angeles television personality
 * James Williams (Welsh footballer) (c. 1886–1916), Welsh footballer

People with the surname

 * Ann Fagan Ginger (born 1925), American lawyer, teacher, writer, and political activist
 * George Ginger (1863–1938), British philatelist (stamp collector)
 * Phyllis Ginger (1907–2005), British artist
 * Ray Ginger (1924–1975), American historian, author, and biographer, husband of Ann Fagan Ginger
 * Sergei Ginger (1870–1937), Moldovan architect

Fictional characters with the given name

 * Ginger Foutley, in the television series As Told by Ginger
 * Ginger Fox, in the television sitcom iCarly
 * Ginger Grant, in the television series Gilligan's Island
 * Ginger Hebblethwaite, a main character in the Biggles series of books by W. E. Johns
 * Ginger Hirano, a character in the television series Phineas and Ferb
 * Ginger Meggs, in the Australian comic of the same name
 * Talking Ginger, a main character in the Talking Tom and Friends media franchise
 * Ginger (comics), in The Beezer
 * Ginger, a sorrel mare in Anna Sewell's Black Beauty
 * Ginger, the main character in Chicken Run
 * Ginger, a character in the Disney Fairies books
 * Ginger, a character on Phineas and Ferb
 * Ginger, a character on The Simpsons
 * Ginger, a character on The West Wing
 * Ginger Fitzgerald, the main character in Ginger Snaps (film)