Wikipedia / Giant (disambiguation)
Wikipedia / 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:
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
Giant (2025 film), a British 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
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 (novel), 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
Giant (magazine), a 2004 American urban music magazine
Music
Albums
The Giants (album), by Oscar Peterson, Joe Pass, and Ray Brown, 1974
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
Giant (Stray Kids album), 2024
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", by Yuqi from A Page, 2021
"Giant", by Stray Kids from Giant, 2024
"Giants", by Helloween from Chameleon, 1993
"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", by True Damage, a virtual hip-hop group featuring Becky G, 2019
"Giants", by X Ambassadors from The Reason
"The Giant", by Swallow the Sun from Ghosts of Loss, 2005
"The Giant", by Anthrax from Worship Music, 2011
Record labels
Giant Records, a former American label, now a Swedish branch of Warner Music Group
Giant Records (independent), a former American independent label
Other uses in music
The Giant (opera), a c. 1900 opera by Sergei Prokofiev
Giant (musical), a 2009 musical adaptation of Ferber's novel
Giant (band), a 1987 American rock band
Plays
Giant (play), a 2024 play by Mark Rosenblatt
Television
The Giants, an unproduced 1960s Doctor Who television serial
"The Giant", a 1964 episode of The Mighty Hercules
"The Giant" (Bagpuss), a 1974 episode
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 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"
Ryan Wedding (born 1981), Canadian drug trafficker 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
Lotte Giants, a South Korean baseball team
Yomiuri Giants, a Japanese baseball team
Gujarat Giants (disambiguation), various sports teams in Gujarat, India
Gulf Giants, an Emirati cricket team, affiliated with Gujarat Giants of WPL
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
Cuban Giants, Trenton, New Jersey
Leland Giants, Chicago, Illinois
Lincoln Giants, New York City
Page Fence Giants, Adrian, Michigan
Other uses in sports
Giant (gymnastics), an artistic gymnastics skill
Giant Center, an arena in Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States
Giants Gaming, a Spanish/European eSports team
Other uses
GIANT AntiSpyware, a software application
Giant Mine, a gold mine in the Northwest Territories, Canada
S-300V "Antey-300" (NATO reporting name SA-12B "Giant")
Giants (esotericism), in esoteric and occult teachings, beings who live on spiritual, etheric and physical planes of existence
Giant, a nickname for a Bank of England £1,000,000 note
Giant, callsign of Atlas Air, an airline
See also
Giant planet, a type of planet
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)