Digger

Digger or diggers may refer to:

People

• A person who digs or excavates
  • Clam digger
  • Dump digger
  • Historical digger
• Diggers, a democratic egalitarian group of radicals during the English Civil War
• Digger Indians, a name for the Paiute people
• Digger (soldier), Australian and New Zealand slang term for a soldier who has seen service
• Digger (goldminer), Australian and New Zealand term for a gold miner (on the "diggings") during the gold rushes of the 1850s
• A person who frequently submits or reads stories on Digg, a technology news website
• Diggers (theater), an anarchist collective of the Haight-Ashbury area of San Francisco formed in 1966, named after the English Diggers

Given name or nickname

• Digger Doug, alias Sid Rawle
• Digger Kettle, English footballer
• Digger Okonkwo, Maltese footballer
• Digger Phelps (born 1941), American basketball coach and sportscaster
• Digger Stanley, English boxer
• Dirty Digger (sometimes shortened to Digger), nickname for Rupert Murdoch

Popular culture

• The Diggers, an 1889 painting by Vincent van Gogh
• Diggers (1990), the second book in The Nome Trilogy by Terry Pratchett
• Digger (webcomic), a webcomic drawn and written by Ursula Vernon
• The Digger, weekly magazine of Glasgow, Scotland

Fictional characters

• Digger (Beanie Baby), a Beanie Baby crab produced by Ty, Inc.
• Digger (character), the mascot for NASCAR on Fox's "gopher cam"
• Digger (comics), a comic book character owned by Marvel Comics
• Digger (mascot), the official mascot of London Irish rugby football club
• Digger, member of "The Band" in Kathryn Lasky's book series Guardians of Ga'Hoole
• Digger, nickname for Botta's Pocket Gopher at the Wildlife Education & Rehabilitation Center in Morgan Hill, CA
• Digger the Dermatophyte, a cartoon figure on an advertisement for Lamisil
• Digger Barnes, a character in the American television series Dallas
• Digger Mole, a character from Shirt Tales

Film and television

• Diggers (1931 film)
• Digger (1993 film)
• Diggers (film), a 2006 film starring Paul Rudd and Lauren Ambrose
• "Digger" (Bottom), 1992 episode from the British television sitcom Bottom
• Diggers (TV show), reality television show on the National Geographic Channel about metal detecting

Music

• Digger (band), a punk band
• The Diggers, a Scottish post-Brit-pop power-pop band

Videogames

• Digger (video game), a classic computer game from 1983
• Diggers (video game), a launch title for the Amiga CD32 videogaming console
• A reconnaissance unit in the videogame Battle Realms: Winter of the Wolf
• Diggers, archaeologists that explore ruins in Mega Man Legends (video game)

Companies and organizations

• Digger DTR, a Swiss humanitarian and non profit organization
• The Digger's Club, an Australian mail order seed company specializing in heirloom plants
• Diggers & Dealers, an annual mining conference held in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
• Diggers, a nickname for the German soccer club FC Ingolstadt 04

Tools

• Slang for an excavator, a heavy vehicle often specialized for digging
• Post hole digger, a tool used to dig post holes
• Shovel

Other

• Digger wasp, wasp genus
• A distinct style of long and low chopper motorcycle popular in the mid to late 1970s

See also

• Dig (disambiguation)
• Diggerland
• Diggers Rest, Victoria, Australia
• Digging (disambiguation)
• Diggings
• Gold digger (disambiguation)
• Gravedigger (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles containing "Digger"
• All pages beginning with "Digger"