Ringer

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Ringer can refer to:

• An impostor
• The Ringer (2005 film), a comedy film starring Johnny Knoxville and Katherine Heigl
• The mechanism in a telephone that announces an incoming call, or plays a ringtone
• A decoy
• One who plays bells, especially as related to campanology
• An ornithologist trained in bird ringing
• In horseshoes, a shoe that encircles the stake and is counted as 3 points
• Ringer T-shirt, a style of T-shirt with a different color of fabric around the neck and sleeves
• Ringer (comics), a Marvel Comics villain
• Road course ringer, a non-NASCAR driver hired by a team to race at a road course
• The Ringer (episode), the first episode of The Legend of Zelda cartoon series
• A member of Tolkien fandom
  • Ringers: Lord of the Fans, a documentary on the subject
• In role playing games, a player character who is a direct or near-direct copy of a character in a work of popular fiction (derived from "dead ringer")
• A game piece used for scoring in the 2007 FIRST Robotics Competition game Rack 'n Roll
• A stolen car whose vehicle identification number plate has been replaced

[edit] People

• Armand T. Ringer, a pseudonym used by American writer Martin Gardner
• Derek Ringer (1956-), Scottish rally co-driver
• Frederick Ringer (1840-1908), British merchant
• Mark Ringer (1959-), American writer and theatre director
• Sydney Ringer, a British clinician and pharmacologist, best known for inventing Lactated Ringer's solution

[edit] See also

• Dead ringer