Samson (disambiguation)

Samson is a Biblical figure known for his superhuman strength, derived from his hair.

Samson may also refer to:

Places

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

People

Samson (name), a list of people with the given name or surname
Samson, English stage name of Santo (1917–1984), Mexican wrestler and film actor
Savanna Samson, stage name of American pornographic actress Natalie Oliveros (born 1967)
Samson, ring name of female Muay Thai boxing champion Siriporn Thaweesuk
Samson (rapper) (1987-2020), English rapper and Cannabis activist

Books

Samson, novella by Marcel Aymé 1945

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

Songs

"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
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

Vehicles

Locomotives

Samson, built in 1831, locomotive No. 13 of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway, see List of Liverpool and Manchester Railway locomotives
Samson (locomotive), built in 1838, Canada's oldest locomotive
Sampson (1855–1884, named after the biblical Samson), one of the four South Devon Railway Tornado class steam locomotives
Samson, built in 1874, a very small steam locomotive at Cornish Hush Mine

Others

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

In the military

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

Fictional characters

the title character of Samson Agonistes, a 1671 closet drama by John Milton based on the Biblical story

Television and film

one of the title characters of Samson & Goliath, a Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon
a talking dog in Samson en Gert (TV series), a Belgian children's show
Samson the bear, from Sesamstraße, the German-language version of children's show Sesame Street
Samson Clogmeyer, from the Cartoon Network series Camp Lazlo
Edgar "Samson" Leonhardt, from the American TV series Carnivàle
Brock Samson, from the animated series The Venture Bros
Samson, from the British children's series Thomas & Friends, introduced in season 18
Samson, from the comedy film Half Baked

Comics

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

Other uses

Samson (magazine), a Japanese gay magazine featuring chubby and older men
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 (dinosaur), a dinosaur skeleton with the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skull ever found
Samson, a name for the ND-5000 32-bit processor made by Norsk Data
Samson, an alternative name for the wine grape Cinsaut
Samson fish, a jack of the genus Seriola
SAMSON (Software for Adaptive Modeling and Simulation Of Nanosystems), a software platform for computational nanoscience
"Samson", a 1988 art installation by Chris Burden

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