Challenger, Challengers, The Challenger, or, The Challengers, may refer to:

Entertainment

Comics and manga

Challenger (character) Tatiana Caban Bethany Cabe Caber Caber is a character in Marvel Comics. Caber is one of the Celtic gods of Otherworld (Marvel Comics)#The island of Avalon and the Celtic Gods, Avalon, a warrior god. Caber is a friend of Leir (Marvel Comi ...

, comic book character * ''Challengers'' (manga), manga by Hinako Takanaga

Film and telemovies

* ''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 ''The Challenger'' (US title: ''The Challenger Disaster'') is a 2013 TV movie starring William Hurt about Richard Feynman's investigation into the 1986 Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' disaster. The film was co-produced by the BBC, the Science ...

'', a 2013 BBC made-for-TV film * ''The Challenger'' (2015 film), an American sports drama film

TV shows

* ''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), an Australian game show * ''Challenger'' (2013 game show), a Pakistani game show

Games

* ''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 Centuri, formerly known as Allied Leisure, was an American arcade game manufacturer. They were based in Hialeah, Florida, and were one of the top six suppliers of coin-operated arcade video game machinery in the United States during the early 1 ...

Literature

* ''Challenger'' (novel), a ''Star Trek: New Earth'' novel by Diane Carey *

Professor Challenger George Edward Challenger is a fictional character in a series of fantasy and science fiction stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Unlike Doyle's self-controlled, analytical character, Sherlock Holmes, Professor Challenger is an ...

, 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

The Challengers (band) The Challengers were an instrumental surf music band started in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, in late 1962. They represented a growing love for surf music and helped make the genre popular. Their debut album, ''Surfbeat'', was the biggest ...

, a 1960s surf rock group

Albums

* ''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

* "Challenger", a song by Misia from the 2004 album ''

Mars & Roses ''Mars & Roses'' is the fifth studio album by Japanese R&B singer Misia, released on February 11, 2004. It debuted at #3 with 151,087 copies sold. The album was recorded in London, New York and Tokyo. The song ''Little Rose'', the title and the ...

'' * "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

Challenger (company) Challenger Limited (Challenger) is an Australian investment management company. It is publicly traded on the Australian Securities Exchange and is a constituent member of the S&P/ASX 200 and S&P/ASX 300 indices. It is largest provider of annuit ...

, an

ASX200 The S&P/ASX 200 (XJO) index is a market-capitalisation weighted and float-adjusted stock market index of stocks listed on the Australian Securities Exchange. The index is maintained by Standard & Poor's and is considered the benchmark for A ...

listed investment management company

People and animals

Challenger (actor) ASM Tofazzal Hossain (died on 12 October 2010; known by his stage name Challenger) was a Bangladeshi television and film actor. He was born in 1959, in Dacca, East Pakistan (now Dhaka, Bangladesh). Career Hossain was nicknamed "Challenger" by w ...

(1959–2010), Bangladeshi film and television actor *

Romeo Challenger Romeo Alexander Challenger (born 19 May 1950) is an Antiguan-born English musician. He has been the drummer for the rock band Showaddywaddy since 1973 and seminal progressive rock band Black Widow. Biography Challenger was born 19 May 1950 ...

(born 1950), rock drummer, father of Ben Challenger * Ben Challenger (born 1978), English high jumper *

Okeem Challenger Okeem Challenger (born 22 August 1989) is an Antiguan and Barbudan footballer who plays for SAP in the Antigua and Barbuda Premier Division. International career Nicknamed ''Soda'', Challenger made his debut for Antigua and Barbuda in a March ...

(born 1989), Antiguan and Barbudan footballer * Melanie Challenger, British poet and writer * Challenger (eagle) (born 1989), an American bald eagle known for free flights *

Challenger (horse) Challenger (1927–1948) was an Irish Thoroughbred racehorse who became a Leading sire in North America. Background Challenger was a bay horse bred by The National Stud at Tully in County Kildare, Ireland. As a yearling, Challenger was bought fo ...

(1927–1948), a British Thoroughbred racehorse

Places

Challenger Deep The Challenger Deep is the List of submarine topographical features#List of oceanic trenches, deepest known point of the seabed of Earth, located in the western Pacific Ocean at the southern end of the Mariana Trench, in the ocean territory o ...

, the deepest point in the world's oceans *

Challenger Plateau The Challenger Plateau is a large submarine plateau west of New Zealand and south of the Lord Howe Rise. It has an approximate diameter of and an area of about . The water depth over the plateau varies between to and is covered by up to of s ...

, a submarine rise in the Tasman Sea close to the New Zealand coast *

Challenger Mountains The Challenger Mountains are a mountain range on Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, Canada. The range is the most northern range in the world and of the Arctic Cordillera. The highest mountain in the range is Commonwealth Mountain . The United States ...

, a subrange of the Arctic Cordillera in Nunavut, Canada *

Mount Challenger Mount Challenger is a hill on East Falkland, Falkland Islands.Strange, Ian (1983) ''The Falkland Islands'' It is south of Mount Kent. The area saw some action during the Falklands War The Falklands War () was a ten-week undeclared war bet ...

, a mountain on East Falkland, Falkland Islands *

Challenger Point Challenger Point is a Elevation, high mountain summit of the Crestones in the Sangre de Cristo Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The fourteener is located east by south (Absolute bearing, bearing 102°) of the Crestone, Colorado, ...

, a mountain in Colorado, United States * Challenger Harbour, a marina in Fremantle, Western Australia *

Challengers, Saint Kitts and Nevis Challengers is a settlement on the south coast of the island of Saint Kitts in Saint Kitts and Nevis. It is located to the west of the capital Basseterre Basseterre (; Saint Kitts Creole: ''Basterre'') is the Capital (political), capital and ...

, a settlement on the island of Saint Kitts * Challenger Colles, a cluster of hills on Pluto *

Challenger mine The Challenger mine is a gold mine in the Far North of South Australia, 165 km west of the Stuart Highway and 740 km north-west of Adelaide. It was operated by Dominion, Kingsgate and then WPG Resources. The mine is now in care and ...

, a gold mine in South Australia

Schools

* 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 The South Metropolitan TAFE (formerly known as the Challenger Institute of Technology or Challenger TAFE) is a Technical and Further Education (TAFE) institution with campuses in Armadale, Bentley, Carlisle, Fremantle, Jandakot, Kwinana, Man ...

, a Technical and Further Education institution in Fremantle, Western Australia

Science

Challenger Society for Marine Science The Challenger Society for Marine Science (or Challenger Society) is a learned society established in 1903 in the United Kingdom around the interdisciplinary subject of marine science. The central objectives of the Challenger Society are: * To ad ...

, established in 1903 in the United Kingdom * ''Challenger'' expedition, a British oceanographic survey in 1872–1876 *

Challenger Center for Space Science Education Challenger Center for Space Science Education is a United States 501(c)(3) non-profit organization headquartered in Washington, DC. It was founded in 1986 by the families of the astronauts who died in the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' disaster on ...

, an American nonprofit educational organization

Sports

* Challengers League, former name of

K3 League The K3 League is the third-highest division in the South Korean football league system. It was run as an amateur league until 2019, but was relaunched as a semi-professional league after absorbing the Korea National League in 2020. It is cur ...

, an amateur football competition in South Korea *

Challengers Cup The Challengers Cup is a South Korean football competition and the league cup of Challengers League (amateur K3 League). It was held twice in 2011 and 2012 as a single-elimination tournament by Korea Football Association, and was contested betw ...

, a South Korean football competition *

ATP Challenger Tour The ATP Challenger Tour (known until the end of 2008 as the ATP Challenger Series) is a series of international men's professional tennis tournaments. It was founded in 1976 as a replacement for the ILTF Satellite Circuit (founded in 1971) as ...

, a series of men's professional tennis tournaments *

Challenger (America's Cup) The Challenger in the America's Cup sailing competition is the team that challenges the defender to win the trophy. Challengers Only seven times in America's Cup history has a challenger syndicate won the trophy. See also *America's Cup * ...

, the yacht representing the club that currently opposes the defender * PCB Challengers, a Pakistani women's cricket team *

Challenger (ski course) Challenger is a World Cup downhill ski course in the western United States, on the north slope of Bald Mountain in Sun Valley, Idaho. The course is part of Sun Valley Ski Resort, the most prestigious in Idaho. Tom Johnston, a very controversial ...

, a World Cup alpine ski racing slope in the western United States, at Sun Valley, Idaho

Transportation

Air and space craft

Bombardier Challenger The Challenger is a family of mid-sized business jets produced by Canadair, and later by Bombardier Aerospace. Aircraft include: * Bombardier Challenger 600 series, the original family of business jets, with the CL-600, CL-601, CL-604, and CL-605 ...

, a series of business jets manufactured by Bombardier * Space Shuttle ''Challenger'', a NASA space shuttle ** Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' disaster *

Quad City Challenger The Quad City Challenger is a family of one and two seats-in-tandem, pusher configuration, tricycle landing gear ultralight aircraft that is designed and produced by Quad City Aircraft Corporation of Moline, Illinois. The Challenger was ...

, an ultralight airplane * ''Challenger'', the

Apollo 17 Apollo 17 (December 7–19, 1972) was the eleventh and final mission of NASA's Apollo program, the sixth and most recent time humans have set foot on the Moon. Commander Gene Cernan and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt walked on the Moon, ...

lunar module

Land vehicles

* Challenger trucks, a Canadian maker of heavy trucks * There have been four tanks named Challenger in

British British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. * British national identity, the characteristics of British people and culture ...

military service. **

Cruiser Mk VIII Challenger The Tank, Cruiser, Challenger (A30) was a British tank of World War II. It mounted the QF 17-pounder anti-tank gun on a chassis derived from the Cromwell tank to add anti-tank firepower to the cruiser tank units. The design compromises made ...

in service during World War II **

Challenger 1 The FV4030/4 Challenger 1 is a British main battle tank (MBT) used by the British Army from 1983 to 2001, when it was superseded by the Challenger 2. The majority of the Challenger 1 fleet was subsequently sold to Jordan where it remain ...

in service from the mid-1980s to early 21st century **

Challenger 2 The FV4034 Challenger 2 (MoD designation "CR2") is a third generation British main battle tank (MBT) in service with the armies of the United Kingdom, Oman, and Ukraine. It was designed by Vickers Defence Systems (now Rheinmetall BAE Systems ...

in service from 1998 onwards **

Challenger 3 Challenger 3 (CR3) is a British fourth-generation main battle tank in development for the British Army. It will be produced by the conversion of existing Challenger 2 tanks by the British/German Rheinmetall BAE Systems Land joint venture. Devel ...

in development; predicted to enter service from 2027 onwards *

Dodge Challenger The Dodge Challenger is the name of three generations of automobiles produced by the American automobile manufacturer Dodge. However, the first use of the Challenger name by Dodge dates back to 1959 for marketing a "value version" of the full- ...

, a car made by Dodge * Mitsubishi Pajero Sport, an SUV once sold in Japan as the Mitsubishi Challenger *

Tokai Challenger Tokai Challenger is a solar car from the Japanese Tokai University. The Tokai Challenger became the winner of the 2009 and 2011 World Solar Challenge, a race for solar cars across Australia. The car is designed and tested in collaboration with s ...

, a solar car * ''Challenger'' (train), a named passenger train fleet *

Union Pacific Challenger The Union Pacific Challengers are a type of simple articulated 4-6-6-4 steam locomotive built by American Locomotive Company (ALCO) from 1936 to 1944 and operated by the Union Pacific Railroad until the late 1950s. A total of 105 Challengers w ...

, a type of steam locomotive *

Challenger Tractor Challenger is an American brand of agricultural tractors. Created in 1986 by Caterpillar Inc., the brand was sold to AGCO in 2002. Since then, Challenger tractors have been manufactured at the company's Jackson, Minnesota facility. Productio ...

, a rubber-tracked agricultural tractor

Sea vessels

* 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 * , 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 The ''Glomar Challenger'' was a deep-sea research and scientific drilling vessel designed for oceanography and marine geology studies. It was used in the Deep Sea Drilling Project for obtaining sediment cores from the ocean floor. The drills ...

'', a deep sea research and scientific drilling vessel for oceanography and marine geology studies * ''

Deepsea Challenger ''Deepsea Challenger'' (DCV 1) was a deep-diving submersible designed to reach the bottom of the Challenger Deep, the deepest-known point on Earth. On 26 March 2012, Canadian film director James Cameron piloted the craft to accomplish this go ...

'', 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

Challenger hop This is a list of varieties of hop (''Humulus lupulus''). As there are male and female plants, the flowers (cones) of the female plant are fertilized by the pollen of the male flowers with the result that the female flowers form seeds. These se ...

, a beer flavouring *

Challenger (cable system) Challenger, Challengers, The Challenger, or, The Challengers, may refer to: Entertainment Comics and manga * Challenger (character), comic book character * ''Challengers'' (manga), manga by Hinako Takanaga Film and telemovies * ''Challengers ...

, an international submarine communications cable between US and Bermuda * Challenger, a line of microcomputer systems manufactured by

Ohio Scientific Ohio Scientific, Inc. (OSI, originally Ohio Scientific Instruments, Inc.), was a privately owned American computer company based in Ohio that built and marketed computer systems, expansions, and software from 1975 to 1986. Their best-known produ ...