Volunteer (disambiguation)

Volunteering is the practice of people working on behalf of others without being motivated by financial or material gain.

Volunteer or volunteers may also refer to:

Volunteerism

• Voluntears, Disney cast members who volunteer their time for charitable or community causes
• Loyal Volunteers, a white settler movement in the Conococheague Valley of colonial Pennsylvania sometimes known as the Black Boys Rebellion

Military and paramilitary

• Military volunteer, may refer to either non-conscripts, or to reservists

American and Irish

• Volunteer (Irish republican)
• Volunteer (Ulster loyalist)
• Volunteers of Ireland, a Loyalist American regiment of Irish ancestry 1778–84
• Irish Volunteers
• Irish Volunteers (18th century), formed to support the Irish Patriot Party 1778–85

British

• British Volunteer Corps, a home defence force raised as part of the British anti-invasion preparations of 1803–1805
• Volunteer Force, a home defence force from 1857 to 1908

Religious

• Volunteers of America, a social welfare group

Film and television

• The Volunteer (1917 film), an American silent drama film
• The Volunteer (1944 film), a recruitment short
• Volunteers (1958 film), a Soviet feature film
• Volunteers (1985 film), a comedy starring John Candy and Tom Hanks
• "The Volunteer" (Full House), a 1991 episode of the family sitcom

Books

• The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery, a 2012 book reprinting a report by Witold Pilecki
• The Volunteer: One Man's Mission to Lead an Underground Army Inside Auschwitz and Stop the Holocaust, a 2019 book by Jack Fairweather about Pilecki

Music

• Volunteers (Jefferson Airplane album), 1969
• Volunteer (Sham 69 album), 1988
• Volunteers (Spear of Destiny album), 2001
• Volunteer (Old Crow Medicine Show album), 2018
• The Volunteers (album) (2004), by onelinedrawing
• "Volunteers" (song), by Jefferson Airplane
• "The Volunteer" (1966), a single by Autry Inman

Places

• Volunteer Hotel, a former pub in Sydney, Australia
• Volunteer Island, among the Line Islands of Kiribati
• Volunteer Park, Armadale, a football ground in West Lothian, Scotland
• Volunteer Point, Falkland Islands

United States

• Volunteer, North Carolina, an unincorporated community
• Volunteer Park (Seattle)
• Volunteer State Community College, in Gallatin, Tennessee
• The Volunteer State, nickname for Tennessee

Ships

• Volunteer (yacht), winner of the 1887 America's Cup
• HMS Volunteer, the name of more than one ship of the British Royal Navy
• The Volunteer (canal boat), operational replica of a 19th-century canal boat based in Illinois, United States
• USS Volunteer, the name of more than one United States Navy ship

Sports

• Volunteer State Athletic Conference, a defunct Tennessee college conference
• Volunteer 500, the original name of the Sharpie 500 NASCAR race
• Tennessee Volunteers, the sports teams of the University of Tennessee

Other uses

• Volunteer (botany), a desirable plant that grows on its own, rather than being planted
• Volunteer (capital punishment), a prisoner who wishes to be sentenced to death

See also

• Voluntarism (disambiguation)
• Voluntary (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles containing Volunteer
• The Volunteers (disambiguation)