# Challenger

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

## Entertainment
### 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), an 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 (company), 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
* Melanie Challenger, British poet and writer
* 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

## Transportation
### 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 (steamboat), 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