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Challenger, Challengers, The Challenger, or, The Challengers, may refer to:
Entertainment
[edit]Comics and manga
[edit]- Challenger (character), comic book character
- Challengers (manga), manga by Hinako Takanaga
Film and telemovies
[edit]- Challengers (film), a 2024 romantic sports film directed by Luca Guadagnino
- Challenger (1990 film), a television movie about the space shuttle Challenger disaster
- The Challengers (film), a 1990 family film produced for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- The Challenger, the original British title for the film The Challenger Disaster, a 2013 BBC made-for-TV film
- The Challenger (2015 film), an American sports drama film
TV shows
[edit]- The Challengers (TV series), a 1979–80 Canadian biographical television series
- The Challengers (game show), a 1990 American game show hosted by Dick Clark
- Challenger (1997 game show), a Australian game show
- Challenger (2013 game show), a Pakistani game show
Games
[edit]- Challenger (video game), a 1985 game developed by Hudson Soft
- Challengers (role-playing game), a 1985 role-playing game
- Challenger (arcade game), a 1981 game developed by Centuri
Literature
[edit]- Challenger (novel), a Star Trek: New Earth novel by Diane Carey
- Professor Challenger, a fictional scientist and adventurer created by Arthur Conan Doyle; and media franchise
- Challenger, a science fiction fanzine by Guy H. Lillian III which was nominated twelve times for the Hugo Award for Best Fanzine
Music
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- The Challengers (band), a 1960s surf rock group
Albums
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- Challengers (album), a 2007 album by The New Pornographers
- Challenger (Burning Star Core album), a 2008 album
- Challenger (Knut album), a 2002 album
- Challenger (Memphis May Fire album), a 2012 album
- Challenger, 2013 album by Recover
- Challenger (EP), a 2021 EP by JO1
Songs
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- "Challenger", a song by Misia from the 2004 album Mars & Roses
- "Challenger", a song by Burning Star Core from the 2008 album Challenger
- "Challengers", a song by The New Pornographers from the 2007 album Challengers
Companies
[edit]- Challenger Limited, an Egyptian-based provider of contract oil and gas land drilling and workover services
- Challenger Ltd, an ASX200 listed investment management company
People and animals
[edit]- Challenger (actor) (1959 – 2010), Bangladeshi film and television actor
- Romeo Challenger (born 1950), rock drummer, father of Ben Challenger
- Ben Challenger (born 1978), English high jumper
- Okeem Challenger (born 1989), Antiguan and Barbudan footballer
- Challenger (eagle) (born 1989), an American bald eagle known for free flights
- Challenger (horse) (1927–1948), a British Thoroughbred racehorse
Places
[edit]- Challenger Deep, the deepest point in the world's oceans
- Challenger Plateau, a submarine rise in the Tasman Sea close to the New Zealand coast
- Challenger Mountains, a subrange of the Arctic Cordillera in Nunavut, Canada
- Mount Challenger, a mountain on East Falkland, Falkland Islands
- Challenger Point, a mountain in Colorado, United States
- Challenger Harbour, a marina in Fremantle, Western Australia
- Challengers, Saint Kitts and Nevis, a settlement on the island of Saint Kitts
- Challenger Colles, a cluster of hills on Pluto
- Challenger mine, a gold mine in South Australia
Schools
[edit]- Challenger Secondary School, a public school in Spanaway, Washington, United States
- Challenger Early College High School, a public secondary school in Hickory, North Carolina, United States
- Challenger Institute of Technology, former name of South Metropolitan TAFE, a Technical and Further Education institution in Fremantle, Western Australia
Science
[edit]- Challenger Society for Marine Science, established in 1903 in the United Kingdom
- Challenger expedition, a British oceanographic survey in 1872–1876
- Challenger Center for Space Science Education, an American nonprofit educational organization
Sports
[edit]- Challengers League, former name of K3 League, an amateur football competition in South Korea
- Challengers Cup, a South Korean football competition
- ATP Challenger Tour, a series of men's professional tennis tournaments
- Challenger (America's Cup), the yacht representing the club that currently opposes the defender
- PCB Challengers, a Pakistani women's cricket team
Transportation
[edit]Air and space craft
[edit]- Bombardier Challenger, a series of business jets manufactured by Bombardier
- Space Shuttle Challenger, a NASA space shuttle
- Quad City Challenger, an ultralight airplane
- Challenger, the Apollo 17 lunar module
Land vehicles
[edit]- Challenger trucks, a Canadian maker of heavy trucks
- There have been four tanks named Challenger in British military service.
- Cruiser Mk VIII Challenger in service during World War II
- Challenger 1 in service from the mid-1980s to early 21st century
- Challenger 2 in service from 1998 onwards
- Challenger 3 in development; predicted to enter service from 2027 onwards
- Dodge Challenger, a car made by Dodge
- Mitsubishi Pajero Sport, an SUV once sold in Japan as the Mitsubishi Challenger
- Tokai Challenger, a solar car
- Challenger (train), a named passenger train fleet
- Union Pacific Challenger, a type of steam locomotive
- Challenger Tractor, a rubber-tracked agricultural tractor
Sea vessels
[edit]- Columbia 24 Challenger, an American sailboat design
- HMS Challenger, any of eight Royal Navy ships
- RSS Challenger, a Sjöormen-class submarine in the Republic of Singapore Navy
- USS Challenger (ID-3630), an early-20th century US Navy cargo ship
- Challenger (clipper), a clipper sailing ship built in London in 1852
- Challenger (1853 clipper), a clipper ship built in Boston
- Challenger (Long Beach fireboat), operated by the fire department of Long Beach, California, US
- Challenger (steamboat), a steamboat built in 1865 that operated in Puget Sound, Washington, US
- Stena Challenger, a ferry, formerly Isle of Inishfree and Pride of Cherbourg, now MV Kaitaki
- Glomar Challenger, a deep sea research and scientific drilling vessel for oceanography and marine geology studies
- Deepsea Challenger, used by James Cameron in the Mariana Trench
- SS St. Marys Challenger, a freight vessel operating on the North American Great Lakes built in 1906
Other uses
[edit]- Challenger hop, a beer flavouring
- Challenger (cable system), an international submarine communications cable between US and Bermuda
- Challenger, a line of microcomputer systems manufactured by Ohio Scientific
See also
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