Goliath (disambiguation)

Goliath was a giant famous for his battle with David as described in the Hebrew Bible.

Goliath may also refer to:

People with the name

Goliath (footballer) (born 1972), an Angolan football player
Matt Parkinson (comedian), one of the Chasers on The Chase Australia nicknamed "Goliath"

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

Goliath (Amalgam Comics), a fictional Amalgam Comics superhero
Goliath (comics), any of a number of characters
Goliath (Dungeons & Dragons), a race related to the giants in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game
Goliath (fictional dog), a character in the stop-motion cartoon series Davey and Goliath
Goliath (Gargoyles), a character in the animated television series Gargoyles (TV series)

Literature

Goliath (Alten novel), by Steve Alten, 2002
Goliath (graphic novel), a short fictional book by Tom Gauld
Goliath (Westerfeld novel), by Scott Westerfeld, 2011
Goliath, a 15th-century fechtbuch (combat manual) by an anonymous author
Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel, a 2013 nonfiction book by Max Blumenthal

Films

Goliath, a 2008 film directed by David Zellner
Goliath II, a 1960 short animated comedy film by Disney, about a tiny elephant

Music

Goliath (Butcher Babies album), 2013
Goliath (Kellermensch album), 2017
Goliath (Steve Taylor album), 2014, or the title song
"Goliath", a song by the Mars Volta from their 2008 album The Bedlam in Goliath
"Goliath", a song by The Silent League
Goliath Artists, a talent firm that manages musicians

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

Goliath (TV series), a 2016 television series produced by Amazon Studios
Goliath (website), a business directory owned by Thomson Gale publishers

Biology

Goliath, a cultivar of Magnolia grandiflora
Atlantic goliath grouper, a species of fish found in the Atlantic Ocean
Eurycnema goliath, a species of stick insect found in Australia
Goliath birdeater, largest spider in the world native to the rain forest regions of northern South America
Goliath coucal, a cuckoo endemic to Indonesia
Goliath frog, an African frog of genus Conraua
Goliath heron, a very large wading bird found in sub-Saharan Africa, with smaller numbers in Southwest and South Asia
Goliath imperial pigeon, a bird endemic to New Caledonia
Goliath shrew, a mammal
Goliathus or Goliath beetle, a genus of large insects
Pacific goliath grouper, a species of fish found in the Pacific Ocean

Roller coasters

Goliath (La Ronde), a hypercoaster in Montreal, Québec, Canada
Goliath (Six Flags Great America), a wooden roller coaster in Gurnee, Illinois
Goliath (Six Flags Fiesta Texas), an inverted roller coaster in San Antonio, Texas
Goliath (Six Flags Magic Mountain), a hypercoaster located in California, United States
Goliath (Six Flags New England), an inverted boomerang roller coaster located near Springfield, Massachusetts, United States
Goliath (Six Flags Over Georgia), a hypercoaster located in Georgia, United States
Goliath (Walibi Holland), a roller coaster in Biddinghuizen, Netherlands
Magic Flyer (roller coaster), a roller coaster at Six Flags Magic Mountain formerly named Goliath Jr.

Technology and transport

Goliath (company), a German car brand of the Borgward group
Goliath (locomotive), one of the four South Devon Railway Tornado class steam locomotives
Goliath (Mangalia), a crane in Mangalia, Romania
Goliath (Rosyth), a crane in Rosyth Dockyard, Scotland
Goliath, one of Erickson Air-Crane's Sikorsky S-64 Skycrane heavy-lift helicopters
Farman F.60 Goliath, the first long-distance passenger airliner
Goliath tracked mine, a remote-controlled tracked explosive device used by the German Army during World War II
Goliath transmitter, a VLF-transmitter of the German Navy in World War II
HMS Goliath, the name of several British Royal Navy ships
LVT(U)X2 Goliath, late 1950s US Navy amphibious tracked utility landing craft, manufactured by Pacific Car and Foundry
Samson and Goliath (cranes), twin shipbuilding gantry cranes in Queen's Island, Belfast, Northern Ireland
USS Goliath, a US monitor also called USS Catskill (1862)

Other uses

Goliath (betting), a type of bet covering eight selections
Goliath, a traditionally craft-brewed ale produced by the UK Wychwood Brewery
Goliath Books, a publisher of art and photography books
Goliath language, a Papuan language of West Papua

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