# Samson (disambiguation)

Samson is a Biblical figure known for his exceptional strength.
Samson may also refer to:

## Arts and entertainment
### Fictional characters
#### Film and television

* Samson Clogmeyer, from the Cartoon Network series Camp Lazlo
* Brock Samson, from the animated series The Venture Bros
* Samson the bear, from Sesamstraße, the German-language version of children's show Sesame Street
* Edgar "Samson" Leonhardt, from the American TV series Carnivàle
* one of the title characters of the Hanna-Barbera cartoon Samson & Goliath
* a talking dog in the Belgian children's show Samson en Gert
* Samson, from the British children's series Thomas & Friends
* Samson, from the comedy film Half Baked

#### Comics

* Samson (Fox Feature Syndicate), a Golden Age character
* Black Samson, one of the Guardians of the Globe from Invincible
* Doc Samson, a Marvel superhero
* Mighty Samson, a Gold Key Comics character
* Samson, a member of the Marvel Comics team the Morlocks

#### Other fictional characters

* the title character of Samson Agonistes, a 1671 closet drama by John Milton based on the biblical story
* Samson, from Need for Speed: Carbon
* Samson, from The Bronze Bow

### Plays and films

* Samson (play), a 1908 play by the French writer Henri Bernstein, basis of the 1915, 1923 and 1936 films below
* Samson (1914 film), an American short
* Samson (1915 film), an American production
* Samson (1923 film), an Italian movie
* Samson (1936 film), a French film directed by Maurice Tourneur
* Samson (1961 Polish film), directed by Andrzej Wajda
* Samson (1961 Italian film), by Gianfranco Parolini
* Samson (2018 film), an American film by Bruce Macdonald

### Music

* Samson (Handel), an oratorio by George Frideric Handel
* Samson (opera), a 1734 lost opera Jean-Philippe Rameau, libretto by Voltaire
* Samson (band), a British hard rock band, formed in 1977 by guitarist and vocalist Paul Samson
* Samsons, an Indonesian pop-rock band
* "Samson" (Emly Starr song), Belgian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest, 1981
* "Samson" (Regina Spektor song), 2006
* "Samson", by Godley & Creme from Birds of Prey, 1983
* "Samson", by V V Brown from Samson & Delilah, 2013

## Companies

* Samson AG, German corporation
* Samson Ceramics, reproduction ceramics, 1845–1969
* Samson Tractor, a division of General Motors from 1917 to 1922, which also made trucks
* Samson, an Irish film production company, producers of Once
* Samson Technologies, a US-American audio equipment company; see Wireless microphone

## People

* Samson (name), a list of people with the given name or surname
* Samson (rapper) (1987–2020), English rapper and Cannabis activist
* Samson, English stage name of Santo (1917–1984), Mexican wrestler and film actor
* Samson, ring name of female Muay Thai boxing champion Siriporn Thaweesuk

## Places

* Samson, Isles of Scilly, United Kingdom
* Samson, Alabama, United States
* Sầm Sơn, Vietnam
* Samson, Western Australia, a suburb of Perth
* Samson, Doubs, France
* Samson Indian Reserve No. 137, Alberta, Canada

## Military

* Samson Option, a deterrence strategy of massive retaliation with nuclear weapons, especially as applied to Israel
* Samson Unit, a special forces unit within the Israel Defense Forces (1988–1995)
* Samson Remote Controlled Weapon Station, an Israeli remote weapon system
* Lockheed Martin C-130J Super Hercules, a transport aircraft known as the "Samson" in Israeli service
* FV106 Samson, a British Army armoured recovery vehicle

## Vehicles
### Locomotives

* Samson, an 1831 locomotive of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway
* Samson (locomotive), built in 1838, Canada's oldest locomotive
* Sampson (1855–1884), a South Devon Railway Tornado class steam locomotive
* Samson, an 1874 steam locomotive at Cornish Hush Mine

### Other vehicles

* Samson (crane barge), wrecked on the Irish coast in 1987
* La Mouette Samson, a French ultralight trike design
* City of New York (1885 ship), originally the Norwegian ship Samson

## Other uses

* SAMSON (Software for Adaptive Modeling and Simulation Of Nanosystems), a software platform for computational nanoscience
* Samson (dinosaur), a dinosaur skeleton with the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skull ever found
* Samson (gorilla) (1949–1981), a male silverback western lowland gorilla
* Samson (magazine), a Japanese gay magazine featuring chubby and older men
* Samson fish, a jack of the genus Seriola
* Samson and Goliath (cranes), twin shipbuilding gantry cranes in Queen's Island, Belfast, Northern Ireland
* Samson Ultra, a trademark name for .50 Action Express preloaded handgun ammunition
* Samson, a name for the ND-5000 32-bit processor made by Norsk Data
* Samson, an alternative name for the wine grape Cinsaut
* "Samson", a 1988 art installation by Chris Burden