Giant (disambiguation) explained

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

• , a 2000 third-person shooter game
• , 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 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

• • • 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)