Challenger, Challengers, or The Challengers may refer to:

Entertainment

Comics and manga

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

Film and TV

* ''The Challengers'' (TV series), a 1979–80 Canadian biographical television series * ''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'' (film), a 2015 American sports drama film * ''The Challengers'' (game show), a 1990 American game show hosted by Dick Clark * ''Challenger'' (game show), a 1997 Australian game show * ''Challenger'' (2013 game show), a Pakistani game show * 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 Scienc ...

'', a 2013 BBC made-for-TV film

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

Literature

* ''Challenger'' (novel), a ''Star Trek: New Earth'' novel by Diane Carey * Professor Challenger, a fictional scientist and adventurer created by Arthur Conan Doyle * ''Challenger'', a science fiction fanzine by

Guy H. Lillian III Guy H. Lillian III is a Louisiana lawyer, former letterhack and science fiction fanzine publisher notable for having been twice nominated for a Hugo Award as best fan writer and having had a row of 12 nominations (without winning) for the Hu ...

which was nominated twelve times for the Hugo Award for Best Fanzine

Music

* The Challengers (band), a 1960s surf rock group * ''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", a song by Misia from the 2004 album '' Mars & Roses'' * ''Challenger'', 2013 album by Recover * ''Challenger'' (EP), a 2021 EP by JO1

Companies

* 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

* Challenger (actor) (19592010), 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

* 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 Challenger Harbour is a marina in Fremantle, Western Australia adjacent to the Fremantle Fishing Boat Harbour. The harbour breakwater covers the historical site of the Fremantle Long Jetty. The harbour was named after HMS ''Challenger'', wh ...

, a marina in Fremantle, Western Australia * Challengers, Saint Kitts and Nevis, a settlement on the island of Saint Kitts

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 Oceanography, marine science. The central objectives of the Challenger Societ ...

, 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 tier of South Korean football league system, which was created from the rebranding of the Korea National League (2003–2019) and the former K3 League (2007–2019) into K3 League and K4 League in 2020. 16 teams ...

, an amateur football competition in South Korea * Challengers Cup, 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. The Challenger Tour events are the second-highest tier of tennis competition, behind the ATP ...

, a series of men's professional tennis tournaments * Challenger (America's Cup), the yacht representing the club that currently opposes the defender *

PCB Challengers PCB Challengers are a Pakistani women's cricket team that compete in the Pakistan Women's One Day Cup and the PCB Women's Twenty20 Tournament. The team has no geographical base, instead being made up of some of the best players from across Pakis ...

, a Pakistani women's cricket team

Transportation

Air and space craft

* Bombardier Challenger, 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 lunar module

Land vehicles

* Challenger trucks, a Canadian maker of heavy trucks *

Challenger tank 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 ...

, a series of tanks in British military service * Dodge Challenger, 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, a type of steam locomotive *

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

, 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'', 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

*Challenger Institute of Technology, former name of South Metropolitan TAFE, a Technical and Further Education institution in Fremantle, Western Australia * Challenger hop, a beer flavouring * Challenger mine, a gold mine in South Australia * 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 (cable system), an international submarine communications cable between US and Bermuda