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'''Gopher''' may refer to:
* [[Gopher (animal)]], including:
** True gopher, i.e. [[pocket gopher]] or member of [[Geomyidae]], native to North America
** [[Richardson's Ground Squirrel]], a species of ''[[Spermophilus]]''
** Ground squirrel, in a loose general sense, [[Sciuridae#Ground squirrel|Sciuridae]]
** The [[Gopher tortoise]], ''Gopher Tortoise/Gopherus polyphemus''
* Media characters
** [[Gopher (Winnie the Pooh)|Gopher]], a character in the Disney version of Winnie the Pooh.
** Character played in ''Wonderland'' by [[Michael Pitt]]
** [[The Gopher]], character in Disney's [[The Lion King]]
** ''[[Gophers!]]'', a 1990 [[United Kingdom|UK]] puppet sit-com starring the voice of [[Lou Hirsch]]
** [[Gordon the Gopher]], a puppet gopher appearing on children's TV in the UK.
** The ship's purser on [[The Love Boat]]
** A character in the movie, [[Caddyshack]]
** [[Goldy Gopher]] the mascot of the University of Minnesota
* Member of various groups, including:
** [[Minnesota Golden Gophers|Golden Gophers]], University of Minnesota sports teams
** [[Gopher Gang]], early 20th-century New York
** [[CF Pachuca]], a Mexican soccer team whose Spanish nickname means "gophers"
* [[Minnesota]], the "Gopher State."
* [[Gopher (protocol)|Gopher protocol]], for the distributed [[hypertext]] protocol. Named in honor of, and developed at, the [[University of Minnesota]].
* [[Gopher wood]], of unclear meaning, is mentioned in the Bible as the building material for [[Noah's ark]].
* A "gopher ball" is one of many nicknames for a [[home run]] in [[baseball]].
* A [[Gofer]] ("''go-fer'' " [go-for, to fetch]), or errand-runner
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