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

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 (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

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

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")