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

  • Great Goliath, ring name of Mexican professional wrestler Pablo Ordaz Crispín (1934–2004)
  • Matumona Lundala (born 1972), an Angolan football player nicknamed "Goliath"
  • Matt Parkinson (comedian), one of the Chasers on The Chase Australia nicknamed "Goliath"
  • Goliath Tabuni, leader of the West Papua National Liberation Army

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)
  • Goliath, a fictional lion from the animated children television series JoJo's Circus
  • Goliath (Devil May Cry), a demon in the video game Devil May Cry 5

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 (Onyebuchi novel), science fiction novel by Tochi Onyebuchi
  • 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 (film), a 2019 film directed by Luke Villemaire
  • Goliath II, a 1960 short animated comedy film by Disney, about a tiny elephant

Music

  • Goliath (Butcher Babies album), 2013
  • Goliath (Exodus album), 2026
  • 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 Melanie Doane from her 1998 album Adam's Rib
  • "Goliath", a song by The Silent League
  • Goliath Artists, a talent firm that manages musicians

Television

  • Goliath (TV series), a 2016 television series produced by Amazon Studios

Episodes

  • "Goliath", Daniel Boone (1964) season 3, episode 3 (1966)
  • "Goliath", Digimon Tamers episode 29 (2001)
  • "Goliath", Kings (American) episodes 1–2 (2005)
  • "Goliath", Knight Rider (1982) season 2, episodes 1–2 (1983)
  • "Goliath", Lassie (1954) season 13, episode 29 (1967)
  • "Goliath", Law & Order: Special Victims Unit season 6, episode 23 (2005)
  • "Goliath", Revelation episode 3 (2020)
  • "Goliath", The Bridge (2013) season 2, episode 8 (2014)

Other uses

  • 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
  • Goliath tiger fish

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 Magic Mountain), a hypercoaster located in California, United States
  • Goliath (Six Flags New England), a now-closed inverted boomerang roller coaster that was 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
  • Chupacabra, an inverted roller coaster at Six Flags Fiesta Texas formerly named Goliath.
  • Magic Flyer, 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 U.S. monitor also called

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
  • Goliath, a class of civilization proposed in Goliath's Curse by Luke Kemp

See also

  • David and Goliath (disambiguation)