Minutemen were civilian militia units during the American Revolutionary War.

Minutemen, Minute Men, or Minuteman may also refer to:

Political and military groups

  • Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, a group dedicated to preventing illegal crossings of the U.S. border, founded in the 2000s
  • Minuteman Project, an organization that monitors illegal immigrants on the United States–Mexico borders, founded in 2004
  • Minutemen (anti-Communist organization), headed by Robert DePugh, founded in the early 1960s
  • Minutemen (Missouri Secessionist Paramilitaries), a pro-secession paramilitary organization active in St. Louis, Missouri, US from Jan-May 1861
  • Culpeper Minutemen, a militia formed in Virginia, US in 1775
  • VR-55 Minutemen, a US Navy Reserve C-130 squadron

Arts, entertainment, and media

Art and music

  • The Minute Man (1874), a sculpture by Daniel Chester French in Concord, Massachusetts, US
  • The Lexington Minuteman (1900), a sculpture by Henry Hudson Kitson, located in Lexington, Massachusetts, US
  • Minutemen (band), a 1980s punk rock band

Comics

  • Minutemen (Watchmen), a team of comic book characters found in Alan Moore's Watchmen
  • Minutemen (Marvel Comics), agents of the Time Variance Authority
  • Minute-Man, a comic book superhero appearing in Fawcett Comics and DC Comics
  • The Minutemen (100 Bullets), fictional characters in the 100 Bullets comic series
  • Before Watchmen: Minutemen, a comic book series by Darwyn Cooke

Fiction

  • Minutemen (film), a 2008 science-fiction Disney Channel Original Movie
  • Minute Men, a paramilitary body in the 1935 Sinclair Lewis novel, It Can't Happen Here
  • The Minutemen, a faction in the 2015 video game Fallout 4
  • Minutemen, soldiers working for the Time Variance Authority (TVA) in the Disney+ series Loki

Places

  • Minute Man National Historical Park, a park commemorating the American Revolution
  • Minuteman Bikeway, a paved path/trail in eastern Massachusetts
  • Minuteman Career and Technical High School, a vocational high school in Lexington, Massachusetts, US
  • Minuteman Library Network, a library network in Massachusetts
  • Minuteman Missile National Historic Site, two deactivated Minuteman missile sites

Sports

  • Boston Minutemen, a soccer team
  • Missouri Minutemen, an indoor football team
  • UMass Minutemen and Minutewomen, a nickname for University of Massachusetts Amherst athletes

Other uses

  • LGM-30 Minuteman, an American intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) weapons system
  • Minuteman Salsa, a former brand of American made salsa