Badger (disambiguation)
# Badger (disambiguation)

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

Badger may also refer to:

## Places

### 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

## Arts, entertainment, and media

### Fictional characters

* Badger (comics) (The Badger), 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.
