Highlander Explained

Highlander may refer to:

Regional cultures

• Gorals (lit. Highlanders), a culture in southern Poland and northern Slovakia
• Hill people, who live in hills and mountains
• Merina people, an ethnic group from the central plateau of Madagascar
• Montagnard (Vietnam), various ethnic groups in the highlands of Vietnam
• Pahari people (disambiguation), various ethnic groups from the Himalayas
• Boykos, an ethnolinguistic Rusyn subgroup
• Malësor or Malok (lit. Highlanders), a person from Malësia (highlands) in Albania
• a person from the Ethiopian Highlands
• a person from the Scottish Highlands
• Montañés (lit. Highlanders), the people of Cantabria in northern Spain
• Southern Highlanders, the mountain people of Southern Appalachia in the eastern United States

Publications

• The Highlander, a book written by James Macpherson
• The Highlander (newspaper), a Gaelic-language political newspaper based in Scotland
• The Highlander, the student newspaper of the University of California, Riverside
• The Highlander, the student newspaper of David Douglas High School, Portland, Oregon

Entertainment

Highlander franchise

• Highlander (franchise), a franchise of films, television series and other media
• Highlander (comics)
• Highlander books

Films

• Highlander (film), 1986
• , 1991
• (Highlander III: The Final Dimension), 1994
• , 2000
• , 2007
• , a 2007 spin-off animated film

Television series

• (1992-1998)
• (1998-1999)

Games

• Highlander (video game), a 1986 one-on-one sword fighting ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 game
• , a 1995 video game for the Atari Jaguar CD
• , a collectible card game originally produced by Thunder Castle Games, reintroduced by Le Montagnard Inc
• , a canceled video game based on the Highlander franchise

Other entertainment

• Highlander, a competitive format of Team Fortress 2
• Highlander (Bakufu Slump album)
• Highlander, the original name of the Swedish power metal band Lost Horizon (band)

Military

• Highland regiments
  • , a list of regiments formed of or following Highlander Regiments tradition
• Highlanders, nickname of the 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, a light armored U.S. Marine Corps Battalion based out of MCB Camp Pendleton, California
• HMS Highlander (H44), a Royal Navy H-Class Destroyer that served in World War II

Sports

• The Highlander, a former Mountain marathon in Scotland

Teams and school nicknames

Professional

• Highlanders (rugby union), a rugby union team based in Dunedin, New Zealand
• The Highlanders, a Scottish cricket franchise in the North Sea Pro Series
• The Highlanders (professional wrestling), a tag team in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE)
• Highlanders F.C., a Zimbabwean football (soccer) club
• Highland Football League, one of three senior non-league football (soccer) leagues in Scotland
• Cape Breton Highlanders (basketball), a Canadian basketball team based in Nova Scotia
• Mbabane Highlanders F.C., a Swazi football (soccer) club
• New York Highlanders, an American baseball team later renamed New York Yankees

College

• Cairn University Highlanders, Langhorne, Pennsylvania
• NJIT Highlanders, New Jersey Institute of Technology
• Radford Highlanders, Radford University, in southwest Virginia, US
• University of California, Riverside Highlanders
• Houghton College Highlanders, Houghton, New York

High school, preparatory and other secondary schools

• Doherty Memorial High School, Worcester, Massachusetts
• Glenvar High School, Roanoke County, Virginia
• Governor Livingston High School, Berkeley Heights, Union County, New Jersey
• Heathwood Hall Episcopal School, Columbia, South Carolina
• Herricks High School, Searingtown, New York
• Homestead High School (Mequon, Wisconsin)
  • Howell High School (Howell, Michigan) Lake Highland Preparatory School, Orlando, Florida
• MacArthur High School (Lawton, Oklahoma)
• McLean High School, McLean, Virginia
• Northern Highlands Regional High School, Allendale, Bergen County, New Jersey
• Northwestern Regional High School, Winsted, Connecticut
• Oak Hills High School, Bridgetown, Ohio
• Rochester Adams High School, Rochester Hills, Michigan
• The Woodlands High School, The Woodlands, Texas
• Thomas McKean High School, Wilmington, Delaware
• West Morris Central High School, Washington Township, Morris County, New Jersey
• Royal High School, Simi Valley, California
• Granada Hills Charter, Granada Hills, Los Angeles, California

Vehicles

• H1ghlander, an autonomous vehicle created by Carnegie Mellon University's Red Team for the DARPA Grand Challenge
• Highlander (dinghy), a dinghy class sailboat manufactured by Allen Boat Company
• AirLony Highlander, a Czech ultralight biplane
• Toyota Highlander, a sport utility vehicle
• MV Highlanders, Canadian ferry
• Royal Highlander, a former passenger train traveling between London and Inverness, Scotland

Other uses

• Alain Baxter (born 1973), Scottish alpine skier nicknamed "the Highlander"
• Highlander cat, a hybrid domestic cat
• Highlander Research and Education Center, New Market, Tennessee
• a statue on the monument at Glenfinnan, Scotland
• a statue on the 51st (Highland) Division Monument (Beaumont-Hamel), France
• Highlander (Hansa-Park), gyro drop tower at Hansa-Park

See also

• Highland (disambiguation)