Ringgold may refer to:

Places

United States

Ringgold, Georgia Ringgold is a city in and the county seat of Catoosa County, Georgia, United States. Its population was 3,414 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Chattanooga metropolitan area. History Ringgold was founded in 1846 and incorporated as a city i ...

, named after the soldier Samuel Ringgold *

Ringgold County, Iowa Ringgold County is a county located in the U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2020 census, the population was 4,663, making it the Iowa county with the second-smallest population. The county seat is Mount Ayr. The county is named after Maj. Samu ...

, named after the soldier Samuel Ringgold * Ringgold, Kentucky, an unincorporated community * Ringgold, Louisiana, named after the soldier Samuel Ringgold * Ringgold, Maryland * Ringgold, Nebraska * Ringgold, Ohio * Ringgold Township, Pennsylvania, named after the soldier Samuel Ringgold * Ringgold, Pennsylvania * New Ringgold, Pennsylvania *

Ringgold, Texas Ringgold is an unincorporated community in Montague County, Texas, United States, with an estimated population of 100 people. It is approximately northwest of Montague, the county seat. Schools Ringgold has one school, Ringgold Elementary Sc ...

, named after the family of the founder's wife *

Ringgold, Virginia Ringgold is an unincorporated community in Pittsylvania County in the U.S. state of Virginia with a postal zip code 24586. The local high school is Dan River High School. The community was named after Maj. Samuel Ringgold, a hero of the Battle ...

Ringgold, West Virginia Ringgold is an unincorporated community in Monongalia County, West Virginia West Virginia is a mountainous U.S. state, state in the Southern United States, Southern and Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States ...

Ringold Formation The Ringold Formation is a Formation (geology), geologic formation in Eastern Washington (state), Washington, United States. The formation consists of sediment laid down by the Columbia River following the flood basalt eruptions of the Columbia R ...

, Washington state geologic formation

Fiji

Ringgold Isles The Ringgold Isles are an archipelago in Fiji, forming an outlier group to Vanua Levu. The Budd, Nukusemanu, and Heemskercq Reefs form part of the group. The group is mostly uninhabited, but Qelelevu has a small village. In 2008 Pacific rats ...

People

Cadwalader Ringgold Cadwalader Ringgold (August 20, 1802 – April 29, 1867) was an officer in the United States Navy who served in the United States Exploring Expedition, later headed an expedition to the Northwest and, after initially retiring, returned to service ...

(1802–1867), American naval officer, son of Samuel Ringgold, brother of the soldier Samuel Ringgold *

Faith Ringgold Faith Ringgold (born Faith Willi Jones; October 8, 1930 – April 13, 2024) was an American painter, author, Sculpture, mixed media sculptor, performance artist, and Intersectionality, intersectional activist, perhaps best known for her Narrativ ...

(1930–2024), African-American artist * Samuel Ringgold (congressman) (1770–1829), Maryland congressman, soldier in the American Revolutionary War and War of 1812, father of Cadwalader Ringgold and the soldier Samuel Ringgold *

Samuel Ringgold (United States Army officer) Samuel B. Ringgold (1796 – May 11, 1846) was an artillery officer in the United States Army who was noted for several military innovations which caused him to be called the "Father of Modern Artillery." He was also, according to some records, th ...

(1796–1846), hero of Battle of Palo Alto in the Mexican–American War, after whom numerous communities are named; son of Samuel Ringgold, brother of Cadwalader Ringgold *

Samuel Ringgold Ward Samuel Ringgold Ward (October 17, 1817 – ) was an African American who escaped enslavement to become an abolitionist, newspaper editor, labor leader, and Congregational church minister. He was author of the influential book ''Autobiograp ...

(1817–1866), American abolitionist, newspaper editor and Congregational church minister * Tench Ringgold, 19th-century American businessman and political appointee * Thomas Ringgold, (1715 – 1772) Maryland lawyer, slave trader and merchant Also: *

Ring Lardner Ringgold Wilmer Lardner (March 6, 1885 – September 25, 1933) was an American sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical writings on sports, marriage, and the theatre. His contemporaries—Ernest Hemingway, Virginia W ...

(1885–1933), full name Ringgold Wilmer Lardner, American writer

Other uses

Ringgold High School (Pennsylvania) Ringgold High School, part of the Ringgold School District, is a public high school in Carroll Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania, which is about thirty miles south of Pittsburgh. The Ringgold School District was formed as a result of t ...

, Monongahela, Pennsylvania *

Ringgold identifier A Ringgold Identifier (Ringgold ID or RIN) is a persistent numeric unique identifier for organizations in the publishing industry supply chain. Ringgold's Identify Database includes over 500,000 Ringgold IDs representing organizations and consor ...

, a unique identifier for organisations in the publishing industry supply chain *

USS Ringgold (DD-89) USS ''Ringgold'' (DD-89) was a in the United States Navy during World War I and the interwar period. During World War II, the vessel was transferred to the Royal Navy as a named HMS ''Newark'', being scrapped after the end of the war in 1947. ...

, named after Cadwalader Ringgold * USS Ringgold (DD-500), named after Cadwalader Ringgold *

Battle of Ringgold Gap The Battle of Ringgold Gap was fought November 27, 1863, outside the town of Ringgold, Georgia, by the Confederate and Union armies during the American Civil War. Part of the Chattanooga Campaign, it followed a heavy Confederate loss at the Bat ...

, in the American Civil War {{Disambig, surname, geo