Redshirt

Red shirt or Redshirt may refer to:

Fiction

• Redshirt (character), a stock "cannon fodder" character in fiction, particularly in Star Trek (the original series)
  • "Redshirt Blues", a 2001 Star Trek fan film parodying the use of redshirts
• Redshirts (film) (Camicie rosse), a 1952 film directed by Francesco Rosi

Groups and movements

• Redshirts (Italy), volunteer followers of Giuseppe Garibaldi in southern Italy during his Expedition of the Thousand.
• Red Shirts (Southern United States), militant white Southern opponents of blacks, carpetbaggers, and United States troops during and after Reconstruction.
• Red Shirts (Mexico), an anti-Catholic paramilitary organization in Mexico in the 1930's.
• Red Shirts (Surkh Posh), another name for the Khudai Khidmatgar, a Pashtun movement against the British in the North West Frontier Province, and its successor, the Awami National Party of that region in Pakistan.
• Red Shirts, another name for Abahlali baseMjondolo, a South African shack dwellers' movement.
• Red Shirts, another name for the National United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship, a political pressure group in Thailand supporting the deposed Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, as opposed to the People's Alliance for Democracy, the Yellow Shirts
• Red Shirts, another name for Million Voices Against Corruption, President Chen Must Go protesters against Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian led by Shih Ming-teh in 2007
• Red Shirts, another name for the New Model Army led by Oliver Cromwell

Individuals

• Delphine Red Shirt, an Oglala Lakota Sioux writer.
• Kuilix, a Pend d'Oreilles woman whose name meant "Red Shirt" or "Red One".

Other

• Redshirting (academic), for young children, refers to the practice of postponing entrance into kindergarten of age-eligible children in order to allow extra time for socioemotional, intellectual, or physical growth.
• Redshirt (college sports), a term referring to delaying a college athlete's participation in order to lengthen eligibility.
• Red Shirt, South Dakota, a small Lakota village in South Dakota, United States.
• Red Shirt School of Photography, a trend pioneered by National Geographic photographers to have subjects wear overly colourful clothes.
• RedShirt, an encryption scheme used in games by Introversion Software.
• Red Shirts, nickname for members of Rho Sigma, a local fraternity established in March 1935 at Ouachita Baptist University.
• Redshirts, nickname for workers at Games Workshop's hobby stores

See also

• Red coat