Challenger

Challenger, Challengers, The Challenger, or, The Challengers, may refer to:

Comics and manga

 * Challenger (character), comic book character
 * Challengers (manga), manga by Hinako Takanaga

Film and telemovies

 * Challengers (film), a 2024 romantic sports film directed by Luca Guadagnino
 * Challenger (1990 film), a television movie about the space shuttle Challenger disaster
 * The Challengers (film), a 1990 family film produced for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 * The Challenger, the original British title for the film The Challenger Disaster, a 2013 BBC made-for-TV film
 * The Challenger (2015 film), an American sports drama film

TV shows

 * The Challengers (TV series), a 1979–80 Canadian biographical television series
 * The Challengers (game show), a 1990 American game show hosted by Dick Clark
 * Challenger (1997 game show), a Australian game show
 * Challenger (2013 game show), a Pakistani game show

Games

 * Challenger (video game), a 1985 game developed by Hudson Soft
 * Challengers (role-playing game), a 1985 role-playing game
 * Challenger (arcade game), a 1981 game developed by Centuri

Literature

 * Challenger (novel), a Star Trek: New Earth novel by Diane Carey
 * Professor Challenger, a fictional scientist and adventurer created by Arthur Conan Doyle; and media franchise
 * Challenger, a science fiction fanzine by Guy H. Lillian III which was nominated twelve times for the Hugo Award for Best Fanzine

Music

 * The Challengers (band), a 1960s surf rock group

Albums

 * Challengers (album), a 2007 album by The New Pornographers
 * Challenger (Burning Star Core album), a 2008 album
 * Challenger (Knut album), a 2002 album
 * Challenger (Memphis May Fire album), a 2012 album
 * Challenger, 2013 album by Recover
 * Challenger (EP), a 2021 EP by JO1

Songs

 * "Challenger", a song by Misia from the 2004 album Mars & Roses
 * "Challenger", a song by Burning Star Core from the 2008 album Challenger
 * "Challengers", a song by The New Pornographers from the 2007 album Challengers

Companies

 * Challenger Limited, an Egyptian-based provider of contract oil and gas land drilling and workover services
 * Challenger Ltd, an ASX200 listed investment management company

People and animals

 * Challenger (actor) (1959 – 2010), Bangladeshi film and television actor
 * Romeo Challenger (born 1950), rock drummer, father of Ben Challenger
 * Ben Challenger (born 1978), English high jumper
 * Okeem Challenger (born 1989), Antiguan and Barbudan footballer
 * Challenger (eagle) (born 1989), an American bald eagle known for free flights
 * Challenger (horse) (1927–1948), a British Thoroughbred racehorse

Places

 * Challenger Deep, the deepest point in the world's oceans
 * Challenger Plateau, a submarine rise in the Tasman Sea close to the New Zealand coast
 * Challenger Mountains, a subrange of the Arctic Cordillera in Nunavut, Canada
 * Mount Challenger, a mountain on East Falkland, Falkland Islands
 * Challenger Point, a mountain in Colorado, United States
 * Challenger Harbour, a marina in Fremantle, Western Australia
 * Challengers, Saint Kitts and Nevis, a settlement on the island of Saint Kitts
 * Challenger Colles, a cluster of hills on Pluto


 * Challenger mine, a gold mine in South Australia

Schools

 * Challenger Secondary School, a public school in Spanaway, Washington, United States
 * Challenger Early College High School, a public secondary school in Hickory, North Carolina, United States
 * Challenger Institute of Technology, former name of South Metropolitan TAFE, a Technical and Further Education institution in Fremantle, Western Australia

Science

 * Challenger Society for Marine Science, established in 1903 in the United Kingdom
 * Challenger expedition, a British oceanographic survey in 1872–1876
 * Challenger Center for Space Science Education, an American nonprofit educational organization

Sports

 * Challengers League, former name of K3 League, an amateur football competition in South Korea
 * Challengers Cup, a South Korean football competition
 * ATP Challenger Tour, a series of men's professional tennis tournaments
 * Challenger (America's Cup), the yacht representing the club that currently opposes the defender
 * PCB Challengers, a Pakistani women's cricket team

Air and space craft

 * Bombardier Challenger, a series of business jets manufactured by Bombardier
 * Space Shuttle Challenger, a NASA space shuttle
 * Space Shuttle Challenger disaster
 * Quad City Challenger, an ultralight airplane
 * Challenger, the Apollo 17 lunar module

Land vehicles

 * Challenger trucks, a Canadian maker of heavy trucks
 * There have been four tanks named Challenger in British military service.
 * Cruiser Mk VIII Challenger in service during World War II
 * Challenger 1 in service from the mid-1980s to early 21st century
 * Challenger 2 in service from 1998 onwards
 * Challenger 3 in development; predicted to enter service from 2027 onwards
 * Dodge Challenger, a car made by Dodge
 * Mitsubishi Pajero Sport, an SUV once sold in Japan as the Mitsubishi Challenger
 * Tokai Challenger, a solar car
 * Challenger (train), a named passenger train fleet
 * Union Pacific Challenger, a type of steam locomotive
 * Challenger Tractor, a rubber-tracked agricultural tractor

Sea vessels

 * Columbia 24 Challenger, an American sailboat design
 * HMS Challenger, any of eight Royal Navy ships
 * RSS Challenger, a Sjöormen-class submarine in the Republic of Singapore Navy
 * USS Challenger (ID-3630), an early-20th century US Navy cargo ship
 * Challenger (clipper), a clipper sailing ship built in London in 1852
 * Challenger (1853 clipper), a clipper ship built in Boston
 * Challenger (Long Beach fireboat), operated by the fire department of Long Beach, California, US
 * Challenger, a steamboat built in 1865 that operated in Puget Sound, Washington, US
 * Stena Challenger, a ferry, formerly Isle of Inishfree and Pride of Cherbourg, now MV Kaitaki
 * Glomar Challenger, a deep sea research and scientific drilling vessel for oceanography and marine geology studies
 * Deepsea Challenger, used by James Cameron in the Mariana Trench
 * SS St. Marys Challenger, a freight vessel operating on the North American Great Lakes built in 1906

Other uses

 * Challenger hop, a beer flavouring
 * Challenger (cable system), an international submarine communications cable between US and Bermuda
 * Challenger, a line of microcomputer systems manufactured by Ohio Scientific