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Samson is a Biblical figure known for his exceptional strength.

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Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

Film and television

• Samson, a lion character in the 2006 Disney animated film The Wild
• Samson Clogmeyer, from the Cartoon Network series Camp Lazlo
• Brock Samson, from the animated series The Venture Bros
• Samson the bear, from Sesamstraße, the German-language version of children's show Sesame Street
• Edgar "Samson" Leonhardt, from the American TV series Carnivàle
• one of the title characters of the Hanna-Barbera cartoon Samson & Goliath
• a talking dog in the Belgian children's show Samson en Gert
• Samson, from the British children's series Thomas & Friends
• Samson, from the comedy film Half Baked

Comics

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

Other fictional characters

• the title character of Samson Agonistes, a 1671 closet drama by John Milton based on the biblical story
• Samson, from Need for Speed: Carbon
• Samson, from The Bronze Bow

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
• Samsons, an Indonesian pop-rock band
• "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, German corporation
• 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
• Samson Technologies, a US-American audio equipment company; see Wireless microphone

People

• Samson (name), a list of people with the given name or surname
• Samson (rapper) (1987–2020), English rapper and Cannabis activist
• Samson, English stage name of Santo (1917–1984), Mexican wrestler and film actor
• Samson, ring name of female Muay Thai boxing champion Siriporn Thaweesuk

Places

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

Military

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

Vehicles

Locomotives

• Samson, an 1831 locomotive of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway
• Samson (locomotive), built in 1838, Canada's oldest locomotive
• Sampson (1855–1884), a South Devon Railway Tornado class steam locomotive
• Samson, an 1874 steam locomotive at Cornish Hush Mine

Other vehicles

• 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

Other uses

• SAMSON (Software for Adaptive Modeling and Simulation Of Nanosystems), a software platform for computational nanoscience
• Samson (dinosaur), a dinosaur skeleton with the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skull ever found
• Samson (gorilla) (1949–1981), a male silverback western lowland gorilla
• Samson (magazine), a Japanese gay magazine featuring chubby and older men
• Samson fish, a jack of the genus Seriola
• 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, a name for the ND-5000 32-bit processor made by Norsk Data
• Samson, an alternative name for the wine grape Cinsaut
• "Samson", a 1988 art installation by Chris Burden

See also

• Samson and Delilah (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles containing Samson
• Sampson (disambiguation)
• Sansom, a surname
• Sanson (disambiguation)
• Samsun, Turkey
• Samsung, a South Korean multinational conglomerate

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