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Samson (disambiguation)

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

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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

    • 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

    • Music

  • Samson (Handel), an oratorio by George Frideric Handel
  • Samson, a lost opera by French 18th-century composer Jean-Philippe Rameau
  • Samson (band), a British hard rock band, formed in 1977 by guitarist and vocalist Paul Samson
  • "Samson" (song), by Emly Starr
  • "Samson", a song on Regina Spektor's 2006 album Begin to Hope
  • "Samson", a song by British singer V V Brown from her third studio album, Samson & Delilah

    • Companies

  • Samson AG
  • Samson Technologies, an audio production conglomerate
  • 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

  • Samson (locomotive), Canada's oldest locomotive
  • Sampson (1855–1884), one of the four South Devon Railway Tornado class steam locomotives
  • Samson (crane barge), wrecked on the Irish coast in 1987
  • La Mouette Samson, a French ultralight trike design

    • 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

    • 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

    • Fictional characters

  • the title character of Samson Agonistes, a 1671 closet drama by John Milton based on the Biblical story
  • 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 comedy film Half Baked
  • Samson, a character of Thomas & Friends introduced in season 18

    • 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

    • References

    Samson (disambiguation) Wikipedia
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