Redshirt, Red Shirt, or Redshirts may refer to:

Sports

Redshirt (college sports) Redshirt, in United States college athletics, is a delay or suspension of an athlete's participation in order to lengthen their period of eligibility. Typically, a student's athletic eligibility in a given sport is four seasons, aligning with the ...

, delaying a college athlete's participation to lengthen eligibility

Entertainment

Redshirt (stock character) In fiction, "redshirt" is an informal term for a stock character who is killed off shortly after being introduced. The term often implies that said character was introduced for the sole purpose of being killed off while adding little else to the ...

, originally derived from ''Star Trek'', a stock character who dies soon after being introduced * ''Red Shirts'' (film), a 1952 film about Anita Garibaldi by Franco Rossi * ''Redshirts'' (novel), a 2012 novel by John Scalzi * "Redshirts" (song), a 2012 song by Jonathan Coulton * ''Redshirt'' (video game), a 2013 video game by Mitu Khandaker

Places

* Red Shirt Lake, a lake in Alaska *

Red Shirt, South Dakota Red Shirt (Lakota: ''ógle šá'' or ''ógle lúta'') is a small unincorporated Oglala Lakota village southeast of Hermosa in Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota, United States. It is on the Pine Ridge Reservation, just outside Badlands Nat ...

, a Lakota village in South Dakota *

Red Shirt Table Red Shirt Table is a tableland in Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota, within the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation of the Oglala Sioux Tribe. The table, named after Chief Red Shirt is approximately long, generally extending in a north–south ...

, a table mountain in South Dakota

Politics

Khudai Khidmatgar Khudai Khidmatgar () was an Indian, predominantly Pashtun, nonviolent resistance movement known for its activism against the British Raj in colonial India; it was based in the country's North-West Frontier Province (present-day Khyber Pakhtun ...

or Red Shirts, a Pashtun movement against British rule in colonial India *

Redshirts (Italy) Redshirts at the Battle of Domokos The Redshirts (Italian: ''Camicie rosse'' or ''Giubbe rosse''), also called the Red coats, are volunteers who followed the Italian patriot Giuseppe Garibaldi during his campaigns. The name derived from the ...

, followers of guerrilla leader Giuseppe Garibaldi *

Red Shirts (Mexico) The Red Shirts () were a paramilitary organization, existing in the 1930s, founded by the atheist and anti-Catholic anticlerical Governor of Tabasco, Mexico, Tomás Garrido Canabal, during his second term. During the ongoing conflict over th ...

, a Mexican anti-Catholic paramilitary organization of the 1930s *

Abahlali baseMjondolo Abahlali baseMjondolo (AbM, , in English: "the residents of the shacks") is a socialist shack dwellers' movement in South Africa which primarily campaigns for land, housing and dignity, to democratise society from below and against xenophobia. ...

or Red shirts, a South African shack-dwellers' movement * The

red shirts scandal The red shirts scandal was an Australian political scandal involving the Andrews Government of Victoria, Australia. The issue stemmed from the use of electorate staff during the 2014 Victorian state election, with investigations by police ending i ...

, an Australian political scandal that involved the Victorian Labor Party *

Red Shirts (Taiwan) Million Voices against Corruption, President Chen Must Go (百萬人民反貪腐倒扁運動) was a Taiwanese campaign led by former Chairman Shih Ming-teh of the Democratic Progressive Party to pressure then-President Chen Shui-bian to resign ...

or Million Voices Against Corruption, President Chen Must Go *

Red Shirts (Thailand) The Red Shirts () are a political movement in Thailand, formed following the 2006 coup d'état which deposed then-Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. Originally synonymous with the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), a group ...

, a political movement in Thailand opposing the 2006 military coup *

Red Shirts (United States) The Red Shirts or Redshirts of the Southern United States were white supremacist paramilitary terrorist groups that were active in the late 19th century in the last years of, and after the end of, the Reconstruction era of the United States. Red ...

, a militant white supremacist group during and after the Reconstruction Era

People

Red Shirt (Oglala) Red Shirt (Oglala Lakota: ''Ógle Ša'' in Standard Lakota Orthography) (c. 1847 – January 4, 1925) was an Oglala Lakota, Oglala Lakota People, Lakota chief, warrior and statesman. Red Shirt supported Crazy Horse during the Great Sioux War of 1 ...

(1847–1925), chief of the Oglala Sioux tribe *

Delphine Red Shirt Delphine Red Shirt (born 1957) is a Native Americans in the United States, Native American author and educator, who is an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge Reservation.Mihesuah 678 Early life and education Delphine Red ...

(born 1957), Oglala Lakota Sioux writer

Other uses

Red Shirt School of Photography The red shirt school of photography is a trend which first became popular in the 1950s. It was pioneered by ''National Geographic'' photographers, who had subjects wear, or chose subjects who wore overly colorful clothes (not necessarily of red, t ...