The following appeared in today’s Philadelphia Inquirer:
The reference is to Carson Wentz, quarterback for and perceived savior of the Philadelphia Eagles (American) football team, whose hair would normally be called “red” in the U.S. and “ginger” in the U.K. Judge for yourself!
notoneoffbritishisms.com 
Deification (well, nearly) of sports personalities happens in the UK too. Here are some splendid chants about Liverpool’s Mo Salah.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAEd9CZvMnw
When it comes to gingers, negative references seem to predominate in the UK, as has been extensively covered in the ‘Ginger’ thread.
Most of the redheads I know here in Northern New England now refer to themselves as gingers. According to knowledgeable juniors at Barnard College, some of the credit (or blame) can be given to the singer Ed Sheeran.
The dude from Harry Potter also bears some responsibility.
Yep, but I didn’t know his name either.
Tim Minchin explains it all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVN_0qvuhhw
Sometimes pronounced with two hard G’s in the UK. Sounds very weird.
Not two hard Gs, but a hard G at the beginning and a velar nasal (aka the sound at the end of “ring”) at the end. So that it rhymes with “minger”. And when that expression appears in this blog, linguistic re-colonisation will be complete!
Not to be confused with Ginger Baker…
In Australia we often use ginger, but ”ranga” is also popular. Ranga comes from orangutan
Nice.
Is ginger not quite recent in the UK, growing up in the sixties and seventies we always talked about red heads.
There was South Park episode from way back in 2005 called Ginger Kids, about ginger kids.