Giant (disambiguation)

Giant or Giants may refer to:

In mythology and religion

• Giant, including various religions
  • Giants (Greek mythology)
  • Giants (esotericism)
  • Giants (Norse mythology)
  • Giants (Welsh folklore)
  • 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

In arts and entertainment

In literature and publications

• Giant, a 1952 novel by Edna Ferber
• The Giants series, a science fiction series by James P. Hogan
• Giant (magazine), an American urban music magazine
• "giANTS", a 1979 short story by Edward Bryant

Films

• The Giant (1938 film), a black-and-white Japanese film
• Giant (1956 film), a film adaptation of Ferber's novel
• 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

Video games

• Giants: Citizen Kabuto, a 2000 third-person shooter game
• Skylanders: Giants, a 2012 beat-em-up game

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
• The Giant (Twin Peaks), an inhabitant of The Black Lodge in the 1990s television series
• Judge Giant, two fictional characters in the Judge Dredd comic strip
• Lily Duncan, also known as "Princess Giant", from the television series Mona the Vampire

In music

Bands

• Giant (band), an American melodic hard rock band
• Giants (band), an American post-rock band

Works

• Giant (musical), a 2009 musical adaptation of Ferber's novel
• The Giant (opera), a 1950 opera by the child Sergei Prokofiev

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" (song), by Stan Rogers
• "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.
• "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 the Stranglers
• "Giants", a song by Jimmy Cliff
• "Giants", a song by Josh Osho and Childish Gambino
• "Giants", a song by Donald Lawrence
• "Giants", a song by Now, Now
• "Giants", a song by The Planet Smashers
• "Giants" (Bear Hands song)
• "Giants", a song by Lights

In television

• Giant (TV series), a 2010 historical drama series from SBS
• The Giants (1978 TV series), a 1978 TVB television series
• The Giants, an unproduced 1960s Doctor Who television serial
• "Giants", an episode of the television series Zoboomafoo
• "The Giant", an episode of the cartoon The Mighty Hercules

In sports

Teams

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

Asia

• Lotte Giants, a South Korean baseball team
• Delhi Giants, a team in the unsanctioned Indian Cricket League
• 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
• Giants Nördlingen, a German basketball club
• Huddersfield Giants, an English rugby league team competing in Super League
• Manchester Giants, a British Basketball League team

Other sports

• Giant (gymnastics), an artistic gymnastics skill
• Giants Gaming, a Spanish/European eSports team

In astronomy

• Giant star in astronomy
• Gas giant, a type of planet

Businesses

• Grenoble Innovation for Advanced New Technologies, an innovation campus in Polygone Scientifique in Grenoble, France
• Giant Bicycles, bicycle maker
• GIANT Company Software, internet security developer
• Giant Food (disambiguation)
• Giant Hypermarket, a retail chain in southern and eastern Asia
• Giant Records (disambiguation)

Places

• Giant Forest, Sequoia National Park, California
• Giant Geyser, Yellowstone National Park
• Giant Mountain, New York
• Giant, Richmond, California, former unincorporated community
• Giant Springs, near Great Falls, Montana

People

• André the Giant, (1946–1993) former French wrestler and actor
• Shohei Baba (1938–1999), former Japanese professional wrestler, nicknamed "Giant"
• Giant Haystacks, (1947–1998) former English professional wrestler
• Jorge González (wrestler) (1966–2010), former Argentine professional wrestler, nicknamed "Giant"
• Paul "Big Show" Wight, (born 1972), an American wrestler with the previous ring name "The Giant"
• Paulo César da Silva (born 1963), Brazilian former basketball player, mixed martial arts fighter, and wrestler, nicknamed "Giant"
• Paulo da Silva (born 1980), Paraguayan football player, nicknamed "Giant"

Other uses

• GIANT AntiSpyware, a software application
• Giant Center, an arena in Hershey, Pennsylvania
• Giant Mine, a gold mine in the Northwest Territories, Canada

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Giant
• All pages with titles containing Giant
• Blue giant (disambiguation)
• Colossal (disambiguation)
• Geant (disambiguation)
• Giant lock (sometimes written GIANT lock), a form of kernel lock used in some computer systems
• Giant Steps (disambiguation)
• Giant squid (disambiguation)
• Giganta, a female villainous character
• Gigant (disambiguation)
• Gigantic (disambiguation)
• Gigantism, a condition characterized by excessive growth and height
• Green Giant, a vegetable company whose fictional mascot is the Jolly Green Giant
• Ice giant (disambiguation)
• Little Giant (disambiguation)
• My Giant, a 1998 comedy sport movie
• Project Riese (German for "giant"), code name for a construction project of Nazi Germany (1943–45)
• The Giant Plane, one of the largest London plane trees in the world
• The Iron Giant, a 1999 American animated science fiction film