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Revision as of 08:32, 28 June 2020
Giant or Giants may refer to:
Mythology and religion
- Giant, including various religions
- Giants (Greek mythology)
- Giants (Norse mythology)
- Giants (Welsh folklore)
- Giants (esotericism)
- Nephilim, a Hebrew term loosely translated as giants in some Bibles
- Rephaite, a term that may refer to a people group of greater-than-average height and stature (possibly giants) in the Hebrew bible
Arts, entertainment, & media
Fictional characters
- Giant (Dungeons & Dragons), a type of fictional character in games
- Giants (Marvel Comics), a fictional race of people based on the giants of Norse mythology
- Lily Duncan, also known as "Princess Giant", from the television series Mona the Vampire
- Judge Giant, two fictional characters in the Judge Dredd comic strip
- The Giant (Twin Peaks), an inhabitant of The Black Lodge in the 1990s television series
Films
(Chronological)
- The Giant (1938 film), a black-and-white Japanese film
- Giant (1956 film), a film adaptation of Ferber's novel
- My Giant (1998), a comedy sport movie
- The Iron Giant (1999), an American animated science fiction film
- Giant (2009 film), an Uruguayan film
- The Giants (2011 film), a 2011 Belgium film
- The Giant (2016 film), 2016 Swedish film
- Giant (2017 film), a 2017 Basque-language Spanish film
Games
- Giants: Citizen Kabuto, a 2000 third-person shooter game
- Skylanders: Giants, a 2012 beat-em-up game
Literature and periodicals
- Giant (magazine), an American urban music magazine
- Giant, a 1952 novel by Edna Ferber
- "giANTS", a 1979 short story by Edward Bryant
- The Giants series, a science fiction series by James P. Hogan
Music
Albums
- Giant (Herman Düne album)
- Giant (The Woodentops album)
- Giants (Chicane album)
- Giants (Dizzy Gillespie album)
- Giants (The Stranglers album)
- Giants (Andreya Triana album)
- The Giant (Ahab album), 2012
- The Giant (Dizzy Gillespie album), 1973
- The Giants (album), a 1974 album featuring Oscar Peterson, Joe Pass, and Ray Brown
Songs
- "Giant" (Calvin Harris and Rag'n'Bone Man song)
- "Giant" (Stan Rogers song)
- "Giant", by the Matthew Good Band from the album Beautiful Midnight
- "Giant", by The The from the album Soul Mining
- "Giant", by Vampire Weekend from certain editions of the album Contra
- "Giant", by Gentle Giant from their self-titled album.
- "Giant", a song by Banks & Steelz from Anything But Words
- "Giants" (Bear Hands song)
- "Giants" (Lights song)
- "Giants", a song by Scale the Summit from the album Carving Desert Canyons
- "Giants", a song by Sponge from Rotting Piñata
- "Giants", a song by Josh Osho and Childish Gambino
- "GIANTS", a song by True Damage (fictional hiphop group featuring Becky G, Keke Palmer, SOYEON, DUCKWRTH, Thutmose)
- “The Happy Giant,” a song by Eddie Carmel
Other uses in music
- Giant (band), an American melodic hard rock band
- Giant (musical), a 2009 musical adaptation of Ferber's novel
- Giant Records (disambiguation)
- The Giant (opera), a 1950 opera by the child Sergei Prokofiev
Television
- Giant (TV series), a 2010 historical drama series from SBS
- "Giants", an episode of the television series Zoboomafoo
- "The Giant", an episode of the cartoon The Mighty Hercules
- The Giants (1978 TV series), a 1978 TVB television series
- The Giants, an unproduced 1960s Doctor Who television serial
Art
- Jewish Giant, taken at Home with His Parents in the Bronx, N.Y., 1970, photograph of Eddie Carmel by Diane Arbus
Astronomy
- Gas giant, a type of planet
- Giant star, a type of star
Brands and enterprises
- Giant Bicycles, bicycle maker
- GIANT Company Software, internet security developer
- Giant Food (disambiguation)
- Giant Hypermarket, a retail chain in southeast Asia
- Green Giant, a vegetable company whose fictional mascot is the Jolly Green Giant
- Grenoble Innovation for Advanced New Technologies (GIANT), an innovation campus in Polygone Scientifique in Grenoble, France
People with the name
- André the Giant (1946–1993), former French wrestler and actor
- Giant Baba (1938–1999, born Shohei Baba), former Japanese professional wrestler, nicknamed "Giant"
- Eddie Carmel (1936–1972), Israeli-born entertainer known as "The Jewish Giant" and "The Happy Giant"
- Paulo da Silva (born 1980), Paraguayan football player, nicknamed "Giant"
- Jorge González (wrestler) (1966–2010), former Argentine professional wrestler, nicknamed "Giant"
- Giant Haystacks (1947–1998), former English professional wrestler
- Giant Silva (born Paulo César da Silva, 1963), Brazilian former basketball player, mixed martial arts fighter, and wrestler, nicknamed "Giant"
- Paul "Big Show" Wight, (born 1972), American wrestler with the previous ring name "The Giant"
Places
- Giant, Richmond, California, former unincorporated community
- Giant Forest, Sequoia National Park, California
- Giant Geyser, Yellowstone National Park
- Giant Mountain, New York
- Giant Springs, near Great Falls, Montana
Sports
Teams
Asia
- Delhi Giants, a team in the unsanctioned Indian Cricket League
- Lotte Giants, a South Korean baseball team
- Yomiuri Giants, a Japanese baseball team
Australia
- Gold Coast-Tweed Giants, a rugby league team
- Goldfields Giants, a State Basketball League team
- Greater Western Sydney Giants, an Australian Football League team nicknamed the "Giants"
Europe
- Antwerp Giants, a Belgian basketball club
- Bayer Giants Leverkusen, a German basketball club
- Belfast Giants, an Irish EIHL ice hockey team
- Dortmund Giants, an American football club from Dortmund, Germany
- Giants Bolzano, an American football club from Italy competing in the Italian Football League
- Huddersfield Giants, an English rugby league team competing in Super League
- Manchester Giants, a British Basketball League team
North America
- Jacksonville Giants, a minor league basketball team
- New York Giants (disambiguation), in various sports and eras
- New York Giants, a National Football League team
- San Francisco Giants, a Major League Baseball team
- Arizona League Giants, their AZL minor league affiliate
- San Jose Giants, their High-A minor league affiliate
- Vancouver Giants, a Western Hockey League team
Negro League baseball
- Bacharach Giants
- Chicago Giants
- Cleveland Giants
- Cuban Giants
- Harrisburg Giants
- Illinois Giants
- Leland Giants
- Lincoln Giants
- Page Fence Giants
- Philadelphia Giants
- St. Louis Giants
Other uses in sports
- Giant (gymnastics), an artistic gymnastics skill
- Giants Gaming, a Spanish/European eSports team
Other uses
- GIANT AntiSpyware, a software application
- Giant Center, an arena in Hershey, Pennsylvania
- Giant lock (sometimes written GIANT lock), a form of kernel lock used in some computer systems
- Giant Mine, a gold mine in the Northwest Territories, Canada
- Project Riese (German for "giant"), the code name for a construction project of Nazi Germany (1943–45)
- The Giant Plane, one of the largest London plane trees in the world
See also
- All pages with titles beginning with Giant
- All pages with titles containing Giant
- Blue giant (disambiguation)
- Colossal (disambiguation)
- Geant (disambiguation)
- Giant Steps (disambiguation)
- Giant squid (disambiguation)
- Gigant (disambiguation)
- Giganta, a female villainous character
- Gigantic (disambiguation)
- Gigantism, a condition characterized by excessive growth and height
- Ice giant (disambiguation)
- Little Giant (disambiguation)