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Samson is a Biblical figure known for his superhuman strength, derived from his hair.
Samson may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Fictional characters
- the title character of Samson Agonistes, a 1671 closet drama by John Milton based on the biblical story
 - Samson, a character from Need for Speed: Carbon
 - Samson, a character from The Bronze Bow
 
Films 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
 - a character from the British children's series Thomas & Friends
 - a character 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
 
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
 
Songs
- "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
 - 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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