Digger or diggers may refer to: *

Excavator Excavators are heavy construction equipment consisting of a boom, dipper (or stick), bucket and cab on a rotating platform known as the "house". The house sits atop an undercarriage with tracks or wheels. They are a natural progression fro ...

, heavy construction equipment consisting of a boom, dipper, bucket and cab on a rotating platform known as the "house". * Backhoe loaders and backhoes are often known as diggers or mini diggers in British parlance

Places

Digger, Leh Digger is a village in the Leh district of Ladakh, India. It is located in the Nubra tehsil. Demographics According to the 2011 census of India The 2011 Census of India or the 15th Indian Census was conducted in two phases, house listing ...

, a village in India

People

* labourer *

Digger (nickname) Digger is a nickname for: * John Barnes (born 1963), Jamaican-born English former footballer and manager * Arthur Brown (1859–1909), English footballer * Duane G. Carey (born 1957), former NASA astronaut and retired US Air Force lieutenant colo ...

Digger (soldier) Digger is a military slang term for primarily infantry soldiers from Australia and New Zealand. Evidence of its use has been found in those countries as early as the 1850s, but its current usage in a military context did not become prominent unt ...

, Australian and New Zealand slang for a veteran *

Digger Indians The Southern Paiute people are a tribe of Native Americans who have lived in the Colorado River basin of southern Nevada, northern Arizona, and southern Utah. Bands of Southern Paiute live in scattered locations throughout this territory an ...

, ethnic slur for Native Americans in California * Digger, person who frequently submits or reads stories on Digg, a technology news website

Fictional characters

Digger (mascot) London Irish RFC is a professional rugby union club which competes in the Premiership, the top division of English rugby union. The club has also competed in the Anglo-Welsh Cup, the European Champions Cup and European Challenge Cup. Whil ...

, mascot of the London Irish rugby football club * Diggers, characters in the video game '' Mega Man Legends'' * Digger (Marvel Comics), a comic book character owned by Marvel Comics * Willard "Digger" Barnes, in the American television series ''Dallas'' * ''Digger'' (NASCAR), the mascot for the ''NASCAR on Fox'' "gopher cam", from '' The Adventures of Digger and Friends'' * Digger, a character in Kathryn Lasky's book series '' Guardians of Ga'Hoole'' * Digger Mole, a character from '' Shirt Tales'' * George "Digger" Harkness, the first Captain Boomerang DC Comics villain * Digby "Digger" O'Dell, on the American radio and television shows '' Life of Riley'' and the 1949 film

Arts and entertainment

Literature

* ''Digger'' (webcomic), a webcomic by Ursula Vernon * ''

The Digger ''The Digger'' is a 24-page magazine in Glasgow, Scotland which focusses on crime stories. It is published weekly, in an A5 newsletter format. In 2012, the magazine went from newsprint to glossy. Background The magazine was founded by James C ...

'', a Scottish weekly magazine * ''The Digger'' (alternative magazine), a 1970s Australian magazine * ''Diggers'' (1990), the second book in '' The Nome Trilogy'' by Terry Pratchett

Film

* ''Diggers'' (1931 film), an Australian film directed by F. W. Thring * ''Digger'' (1993 film), a Canadian film starring Leslie Nielsen * ''Diggers'' (2006 film), an American film starring Paul Rudd and Lauren Ambrose * ''Digger'' (2020 film), a Greek film

Television

* "Digger" (''Bottom''), a 1992 episode from the British television sitcom ''Bottom'' * ''Diggers'' (TV series), a reality television show on the National Geographic Channel

Music

Digger (band) Digger is an American pop punk band from Pennsylvania, signed to Hopeless Records. History Digger formed in the Lehigh Valley in the mid-1990s and signed to Hopeless Records in 1996. Upon the event of Digger's live recording being played on ...

, a punk band *

The Diggers (band) The Diggers are a Scottish post-Britpop powerpop band, with a 1997 debut album, ''Mount Everest''. History Members Miezitis and Moffatt had attended school together and began playing as an acoustic duo in the early 1990s. In 1991 they moved ...

, a Scottish band

Video games

* '' Heiankyo Alien'', a 1979 video game released as ''Digger'' in North America * ''Digger'' (video game), a computer game from 1983 * ''Diggers'' (video game), launch title for the Amiga CD32 videogaming console * Digger, one of the eight tools available in the video game '' Lemmings''

Organizations

* Diggers, a group of radicals during the English Civil War * Diggers (theater), a 1960s collective of the Haight-Ashbury area of San Francisco, US *

Bendigo Diggers The Bendigo Gold Football Club was an Australian rules football club based in Bendigo, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. The club played in the Victorian Football League (VFL) from 1998 until 2014, under the nicknames Diggers, Bombers an ...

, former name of Bendigo Football Club, an Australian rules football club

Other uses

Digger wasp (disambiguation) The common name digger wasp is a broad term which may refer to any member of the parasitoidal wasp families: * Crabronidae, including ''Bembix'' sand wasps and ''Philanthus'' beewolves * Sphecidae The Sphecidae are a cosmopolitan family of wa ...

, multiple wasp families * Digger, style of motorcycle, similar to a chopper * A nickname for a front engine dragster * ''The Diggers'' (Van Gogh), 1889 painting by Vincent van Gogh