# 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

## 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

### 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 (French: 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

### Music
#### 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
* 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 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 Yuqi from A Page, 2021
* "Giant", by Stray Kids from Giant, 2024
* "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 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 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"
* 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

#### 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")