Whig

Whig or Whigs may refer to:

In the British Isles

 * Whigs (British political party), one of two political parties in England, Great Britain, Ireland, and later the United Kingdom, from the 17th to 19th centuries
 * Whiggism, the political philosophy of the British Whig party
 * Radical Whigs, a faction of British Whigs associated with the American Revolution
 * Patriot Whigs or Patriot Party, a Whig faction
 * A nickname for the Liberal Party, the UK political party that succeeded the Whigs in the 1840s
 * The Whig Party, a supposed revival of the historical Whig party, launched in 2014
 * Whig government, a list of British Whig governments
 * Whig history, the Whig philosophy of history
 * A pejorative nickname for the Kirk Party, a radical Presbyterian faction of the Scottish Covenanters during the 17th-century Wars of the Three Kingdoms
 * Whiggamore Raid, a march on Edinburgh by supporters of the Kirk faction in September 1648

In the United States

 * A term used at the time of the American Revolution for patriots (supporters of the revolution against England)
 * Whig Party (United States), a major political party which operated from 1834 to 1856

In Liberia

 * True Whig Party, also known as the "Liberian Whig Party", Liberia's overwhelmingly dominant political party from 1878 to 1980

Music

 * The Whigs (band), a 2000s garage rock band
 * The Afghan Whigs, a 1990s indie rock band

Newspapers

 * Cecil Whig of Cecil County, Maryland, United States
 * The Kingston Whig-Standard of Kingston, Ontario, Canada, originally named the British Whig
 * Brownlow's Whig, an East Tennessee, USA, newspaper published under various titles
 * Quincy Herald-Whig of Quincy, Illinois, United States

Other uses

 * American Whig-Cliosophic Society, also known as "Whig-Clio", a political, literary, and debating society at Princeton University
 * White House Iraq Group, also known as the White House Information Group
 * Confederate States Whig Party, a fictional political party created by alternate history author Harry Turtledove
 * WHIG-CD, a low-power television station (channel 30, virtual 31) licensed to serve Rocky Mount, North Carolina, United States; see List of television stations in North Carolina