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

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  • 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

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
  • Royal Challengers Bengaluru, an Indian Premier League crickter team based in Bengaluru
  • Royal Challengers Bengaluru (WPL), a Women's Premier League crickter team based in Bengaluru
  • Challenger (ski course), a World Cup alpine ski racing slope in the western United States, at Sun Valley, Idaho

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
  • , 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 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, a line of microcomputer systems manufactured by Ohio Scientific
  • Challenger (cable system), an international submarine communications cable between US and Bermuda
  • Challenger (company), an Australian investment management company
  • Challenger hop, a beer flavouring

See also

  • Challenge (disambiguation)
  • The Challenge (disambiguation)
  • Challenge Cup (disambiguation)