Giant (disambiguation)

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

• Giants (Greek mythology)
• Jötunn, a Germanic term often translated as 'giant'
• Giants (Welsh folklore)
• Giants (esotericism)
• Nephilim, a Hebrew term loosely translated as 'giants' in some Bibles
• List of giants in mythology and folklore

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

• Giant Bicycles, bicycle maker
• GIANT Company Software, internet security developer
• Giant Food (disambiguation)
• Giant Hypermarket, a retail chain in Southeast Asia
• Giant Industries, a defunct oil company and convenience store chain in the U.S. Southwest now succeeded by Speedway
• Grenoble Innovation for Advanced New Technologies (GIANT), an innovation campus in Polygone Scientifique in Grenoble, France

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

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

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 competing in the Italian Football League
• Huddersfield Giants, an English rugby league team competing in Super League
• Manchester Giants, a British Basketball League team
• SG ART Giants Düsseldorf, a German basketball team

North America

• Jacksonville Giants, a minor league basketball team
• Fort McMurray Giants, a baseball team in the Western Canadian Baseball League
• 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, Atlantic City, New Jersey
• Baltimore Elite Giants
• Brooklyn Royal Giants
• Chicago Giants
• Chicago Columbia Giants
• Chicago Union Giants
• Chicago American Giants
• Cleveland Giants
• Cuban Giants, Trenton, New Jersey
• Harrisburg Giants
• Illinois Giants
• Leland Giants, Chicago, Illinois
• Lincoln Giants, New York City
• Page Fence Giants, Adrian, Michigan
• 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 Mine, a gold mine in the Northwest Territories, Canada
• Giant, a nickname for a Bank of England £1,000,000 note
• Giant, callsign of Atlas Air, an airline
• S-300V "Antey-300" (NATO reporting name SA-12B "Giant")

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)

1. Giant panda (disambiguation)
2. Frost Giant (disambiguation)
3. The Selfish Giant
4. Red giant (disambiguation)
5. Ice giant (disambiguation)
6. Jolly Green Giant (disambiguation)
7. Sleeping Giant
8. Blue giant (disambiguation)
9. Giant Food
10. Gentle Giant (disambiguation)
11. Little Giant (disambiguation)
12. Food Giant
13. Giant squid (disambiguation)
14. Large
15. Chicago Giants (disambiguation)
16. Standing on the shoulders of giants (disambiguation)
17. Giant rat
18. One Giant Leap
19. Giant tortoise (disambiguation)
20. Gujarat Giants