Giant (disambiguation)

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A giant is a being of human appearance, sometimes of prodigious size and strength, common in folklore.

Giant(s) or The Giant(s) may also refer to:

Mythology and religion

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

  • Giants (Marvel Comics), a fictional race of people
  • Giant (Dungeons & Dragons), 1974, a type of fictional character
  • Judge Giant, two fictional characters in the 1977 Judge Dredd comic strip
  • The Giant (Twin Peaks), an inhabitant of The Black Lodge in the 1990s television series
  • Lily Duncan, also known as "Princess Giant", from the 1999 television series Mona the Vampire

Films

  • The Giant (1938 film), a black-and-white Japanese film
  • Giant (1956 film), a film adaptation of Ferber's novel
  • Giant (2009 film), a Uruguayan film
  • The Giants (2011 film), a Belgium film
  • The Giant (2016 film), a Swedish film
  • Giant (2017 film), a Basque-language Spanish film
  • The Giant (2019 film), a French-American film

Games

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

Literature and periodicals

  • The Giant, an 1871 novel by William Sewell, edited by Elizabeth Missing Sewell
  • The Giants, a 1905 novel by Cora Baggerly Older
  • The Giant, a 1951 novel by Frederick Manfred
  • Giant, a 1952 novel by Edna Ferber
  • The Giant, a 1954 children's novel by William Pène du Bois
  • The Giants (French: Les Géants), a 1973 novel by J. M. G. Le Clézio
  • Giants (series), a 1977 science fiction series by James P. Hogan
  • "giANTS", a 1979 short story by Edward Bryant
  • Giants (anthology), a 1985 short story collection edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh, the fifth volume in their Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy series
  • Giant (magazine), a 2004 American urban music magazine

Music

Albums

  • Giant (Buddy Holly album), 1969
  • Giants (Dizzy Gillespie album), 1971
  • The Giant (Dizzy Gillespie album), 1973
  • The Giants (album), by Oscar Peterson, Joe Pass, and Ray Brown, 1974
  • Giant (The Woodentops album), 1986
  • Giant (Herman Düne album) or the title song, 2006
  • Giants (Chicane album) or the title song, 2010
  • Giants (Evan Craft album) or the title song, 2012
  • The Giant (Ahab album) or the title song, 2012
  • Giants (The Stranglers album) or the title song, 2012
  • Giants (Andreya Triana album) or the title song, 2015
  • Giants, by Daniel Powter, 2018

Songs

  • "Giant", by Gentle Giant from Gentle Giant, 1970
  • "Giant", by Stan Rogers from Fogarty's Cove, 1977
  • "Giant", by The The from Soul Mining, 1983
  • "Giant", by the Matthew Good Band from Beautiful Midnight, 1999
  • "Giant", by Nebula from Charged, 2001
  • "Giant", by Vampire Weekend from Contra, 2010
  • "Giant", by Funeral Party from The Golden Age of Knowhere, 2011
  • "Giant", by Banks & Steelz from Anything But Words, 2016
  • "Giant" (Calvin Harris and Rag'n'Bone Man song), 2019
  • "Giant", by Song Yuqi from A Page, 2021
  • "Giants" (Bear Hands song), 2013
  • "Giants" (Dermot Kennedy song), 2020
  • "Giants", by Imagine Dragons from Mercury – Act 1, 2021
  • "Giants", by Josh Osho, 2012
  • "Giants" (Lights song), 2017
  • "Giants", by One Ok Rock from Eye of the Storm, 2019
  • "Giants", by Scale the Summit from Carving Desert Canyons, 2009
  • "Giants", by Sponge from Rotting Piñata, 1994
  • "Giants" (Take That song), 2017
  • "Giants", by True Damage, a virtual hip-hop group featuring Becky G, 2019
  • "Giants", by X Ambassadors from The Reason

Other uses in music

  • The Giant (opera), a c. 1900 opera by Sergei Prokofiev
  • Giant Records (independent), formed under 1987 Dutch East India Trading
  • Giant (band), a 1987 American rock band
  • Giant Records (Warner), 1990, a Swedish branch of Warner Music Group
  • Giant (musical), a 2009 musical adaptation of Ferber's novel

Television

  • The Giants, an unproduced 1960s Doctor Who television serial
  • "The Giant", a 1964 episode of The Mighty Hercules
  • The Giants (TV series), a 1978 Hong Kong drama series
  • "Giants" (Zoboomafoo), a 1999 episode
  • Giant (TV series), a 2010 South Korean historical drama series
  • "Giant" (Halt and Catch Fire), a 2014 episode

Brands and enterprises

People

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

Places in the United States

Sports

Teams

Asia

Australia

Europe

North America

Negro league baseball

Other uses in sports

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

Other uses

See also

  • All pages with titles beginning with Giant
  • All pages with titles containing Giant
  • Giant planet, a type of planet
    • Gas giant, a giant planet composed primarily of hydrogen and helium
    • Ice giant, a giant planet composed primarily of rock and volatiles
  • Giant star, a type of star
  • Processional giant, costumed tall figures
  • Eddie Carmel (1936–1972), Israeli-born entertainer known as "The Jewish Giant" and "The Happy Giant"
  • Project Riese (German for "giant"), the code name for a construction project of Nazi Germany (1943–45)
  • Geant (disambiguation)
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