Redhead

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Redhead may refer to:

• A person with red hair
• The North American Redhead (duck), Aythya americana
• A colloquial name for the immatures and adult females (i.e., any non-adult male) of some other ducks, notably smew and mergansers
• The milkweed plant species Asclepias curassavica
• A kind of stage light (800W tungsten light): see theatrical lighting
• Redhead (musical), a 1959 musical, for which Richard Kiley won the Best Actor Tony Award.
• Redheads (matches), a brand of matches sold in Australia
• Ionization gauge (a.k.a. "Redhead gauge"), used to measure vacuum
• Brian Redhead (1929–1994), BBC Radio presenter on the Today programme
• Doreen Redhead, Manitoba judge
• Redhead (album), an album by Bleu.
• Redhead, New South Wales, Australia, a suburb of the City of Lake Macquarie
• Red Head Records, a record label
• A type of concrete bolt anchor manufactured by Illinois Tool Works/ITW Ramset/Redhead.
• An anti-short bushing used when terminating armored cable (type AC and type MC)
• A [Red-Headed Stepchild] referring to a person thought of as second best, or low in social position

Red-headed may refer to:

In zoology:

• Chinese red-headed centipede, centipede from East Asia and Australasia
• Red-headed Bunting, passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae
• Red-headed Titi, type of New World monkey
• Red-headed Vulture, species of Old World vulture found in South Asia
• Red-headed Woodpecker (Melanerpes erythrocephalus), small or medium-sized woodpecker

In other fields:

• "Mr. Monk and the Red-Headed Stranger", episode of Monk
• Red-Headed Woman, 1932 film of the Pre-Code era
• "The Red-Headed League", one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle