Groups of People
- A member of the Royal Navy Police
- A faction in the War of the Regulation (1760–1771)
- A member of the Shaysites, followers of Daniel Shays during Shays' Rebellion (1786)
- A faction in the Regulator–Moderator War (1839–1844)
- A vigilante organized in response to the Banditti of the Prairie (1835–1848)
- The Lincoln County Regulators, a deputized posse during the Lincoln County War (1878)
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