Who were some historical redheads?

Judas Iscariot, for one.

>>2765188
Elizabeth I

Hayreddin Barbaros was a ginger but a very alpha one at that.

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>>2765188
I'm pretty sure if anyone made ginger jokes about Ramesses II they'd regret it quickly. (Yes, the hair on his mummy was ceremonially dyed, but his natural hair color was also red).

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>>2765196
did somebody say iscariot?

In Irish history people who have red hair generally have the epithet "Rua" (anglicised as "Roe")

But no, there isn't really any evidence for widespread historical discrimination based on red hair. It seems to be a very modern phenomenon.

Sources: Bartlett, Robert. “Symbolic Meanings of Hair in the Middle Ages.” Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, vol. 4, 1994, pp. 43–60., www.jstor.org/stable/3679214.

Baum, Paull Franklin. “Judas's Red Hair.” The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, vol. 21, no. 3, 1922, pp. 520–529.,
www.jstor.org/stable/27702658.

Pulliam, Heather. “COLOR.” Studies in Iconography, vol. 33, 2012, pp. 3–14., www.jstor.org/stable/23924264.

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How could someone make a ginger thread without this thirsty SOB?

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He hated his red hair until somebody told him that the Indians especially prized red haired scalps.

After that, he was proud of it, because just having his hair was a gesture of defiance to the Indians.

In Tacitus' Germania he writes that all Germans are red-haired.

>>2765188
mohammed
king david
judas iscariot
elizabeth i
henry viii
william tecumseh sherman
eric the red

Genghis Khan might've had red hair and/or green eyes, but it's hard to tell.
I bet anyone making a ginger joke to him would've lost their head immediately, and their wife would be giving birth to a little redhead in about 9 months

>>2766814
>Yes, the hair on his mummy was ceremonially dyed, but his natural hair color was also red).
But wait wait wait... I thought Egyptiona... WUZ KANGZ? Are you, the white devil, telling me that Egyptians WERN'T KANGZ?

>>2768172
Similarly Slavs are described as being universally red haired by writers from 6th century to about 8th or 9th century AD when they start diverging from each other.

Possibly early Slavs and early Germanics were quite similar to each other as they were both Indo European tribes.

Thomas Jefferson
George Washington

>>2768219
what is the evidence for people like mohammed, david and judas? I know there are instances of red hair in semitic peoples, but I figured that was some relatively recent genetic thing, like from rapist crusaders/normans or something

>>2765188
Elizabeth I
Mary Queen of Scots
Hayreddin Barbarossa
Eric the Red

>>2768919

Mohammad is said to have had red hair. Coming from a muslim family in the Balkans, I once told he would actually dye it red, hence dyeing hair is actually very acceptable in Islam. I don't know anything else.

>>2769189
I was told*

>>2769189
>Coming from a muslim family in the Balkans
Bosnian, Albanian or Bulgarian? I'm from Muslim Bosnian bey/beg family.