Green Cross may refer to:
- Green Cross of Florida Flag, a flag with a green cross on a white ground flown at Fort San Carlos on Amelia Island in Florida by Gregor MacGregor, a Scottish-born soldier of fortune, who seized the island in June of 1817. The flag played a part in an historical episode called the Amelia Island Affair.
- Green Cross (Japan), a Japanese pharmaceutical company
- Green Cross Code, a traffic safety education program in the United Kingdom
- Green Cross International, an environmental organization founded by Mikhail Gorbachev
- The Green Cross is the logo for the National Safety Council in the United States
- Green Cross flags are the industrial safety/health flags in Japan. They are not related to the Japanese pharmaceutical company
- The Green Cross Code Man was played by David Prowse
- Green Cross (chemical warfare), a group of World War I chemical warfare agents
- C.D. Green Cross (1916–1985), a Chilean football (soccer) club currently defunct
- Club Atlético Green Cross, an Ecuadorian football (soccer) club
- A common symbol used in the medical marijuana community
- Retail Pharmacies/Chemists in Europe and elsewhere may display a green cross
Famous quotes containing the words green and/or cross:
“People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition; people live like that, but Americans live in white detached houses with green shutters. Rigidly, blindly, the dream takes precedence.”
—Margaret Mead (1901–1978)
“Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.”
—Indian proverb, quoted in Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, ch. 30, “From the Notebooks” (1987)
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