Goliath (disambiguation)
# 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

* Matumona Lundala (born 1972), an Angolan football player nicknamed "Goliath"
* 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 (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 (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
* 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 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 U.S. 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
