Gog may refer to:
Religion
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Gog and Magog
Gog and Magog (; he, גּוֹג וּמָגוֹג, ''Gōg ū-Māgōg'') appear in the Hebrew Bible and the Quran as individuals, tribes, or lands. In Ezekiel 38, Gog is an individual and Magog is his land; in Genesis 10, Magog is a man and epo ...
, entities from various religious texts
People
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Anikó Góg
Anikó Góg (born 10 February 1980 in Orosháza, Békés) is an athlete from Hungary. She competes in triathlon
A triathlon is an endurance multisport race consisting of swimming, cycling, and running over various distances. Triathletes c ...
, Hungarian triathlete
* GOG or Genival Oliveira Gonçalves (born 1965),
Brazilian rapper
* Gog, a slang term for a person from
North Wales
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Places
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Gog (woreda), a district in Gambela, Ethiopia
* Gog, an archaic spelling of the town of
Goch
Goch (; archaic spelling: Gog, Dutch: Gogh) is a town in the district of Kleve, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated close to the border with the Siebengewald in Netherlands, approx. south of Kleve, and southeast of Nijmegen.
His ...
, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Gog Magog Hills
The Gog Magog Hills are a range of low chalk hills, extending for several miles to the southeast of Cambridge in England. The highest points are situated either side of the A1307 Babraham Road, and are marked on Ordnance Survey 1:25000 maps as ...
, a hill range south of Cambridge, England, colloquially known as 'The Gogs'
* Gog and Magog, twin rock formations in
Stewart Island / Rakiura
Stewart Island ( mi, Rakiura, ' glowing skies', officially Stewart Island / Rakiura) is New Zealand's third-largest island, located south of the South Island, across the Foveaux Strait. It is a roughly triangular island with a total land ar ...
, New Zealand
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Goodview Garden stop, a light rail stop in Hong Kong (MTR station code GOG)
Fiction
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Gog (DC Comics)
Gog is the name of several fictional characters in the comics published by DC Comics. The first version first appeared in ''New Year's Evil: Gog'' #1 (February 1998), and was created by Mark Waid and Jerry Ordway.
Fictional character biography T ...
, a DC Comics super-villain
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''Gog'' (film), a 1954 3-D science fiction film by Herbert L. Strock
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Gog (Marvel Comics)
Gog is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character has appeared in ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' and ''X-Men (film series), X-Men.''
Publication history
Created by writer Roy Thomas and Gi ...
, a Marvel Comics super-villain and monster
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''Gog'' (novel), a 1931 satire by Giovanni Papini
* ''Gog'', a 1967 novel by
Andrew Sinclair
Andrew Annandale Sinclair FRSL FRSA (21 January 1935 – 30 May 2019) was a British novelist, historian, biographer, critic, filmmaker, and a publisher of classic and modern film scripts. He has been described as a "writer of extraordinary flu ...
* Gog and Magog ("Gos et Magos"), characters in the 16th century novels ''
Gargantua and Pantagruel
''The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel'' (french: La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel) is a pentalogy of novels written in the 16th century by François Rabelais, telling the adventures of two giants, Gargantua ( , ) and his son Pantagruel ...
''
* ''
Gogs
''Gogs!'', or simply ''Gogs'', is a Welsh claymation-style animated television series which took the form of a sitcom, originally aired on S4C in 1993, and aired in the rest of the UK on the BBC in 1996. ''Gogs'' has since been aired internatio ...
'', an animated UK television series
* ''
Guardians of Ga'Hoole
''Guardians of Ga'Hoole'' is a fantasy book series written by Kathryn Lasky and published by Scholastic. The series contains a total of 16 books and although originally intended to conclude with the 2008 publication of ''The War of the Ember' ...
'', a New York Times best-selling book series
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Guardians of the Galaxy (1969 team)
Guardians of the Galaxy are a superhero team appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The Guardians first appear in '' Marvel Super-Heroes'' #18 (January 1969). The initial roster consisted of Vance Astro, Martinex T'Naga, ...
, a Marvel Comics superhero team
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Guardians of the Galaxy (2008 team)
The Guardians of the Galaxy are a fictional superhero team appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning formed the team from existing and previously unrelated characters created by a variety of writer ...
, a Marvel Comics superhero team
Other uses
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''Gog'' (trilobite), a genus of trilobite
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Gog and Magog (statues)
Gogmagog (also ''Goemagot, Goemagog, Goëmagot'' and ''Gogmagoc'') was a legendary giant in Welsh and later English mythology. According to Geoffrey of Monmouth's ''Historia Regum Britanniae'' ("The History of The Kings of Britain", 12th century), ...
, of Guildhall, London
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GOG.com
GOG.com (formerly Good Old Games) is a digital distribution platform for video games and films. It is operated by GOG sp. z o.o., a wholly owned subsidiary of CD Projekt based in Warsaw, Poland. GOG.com delivers DRM-free video games through its ...
(formerly Good Old Games), a videogame website
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GOG Håndbold
GOG is a handball club based in the small town of Gudme on Funen, Denmark. The club is one of the most successful in the history of Danish handball having won the Danish Handball League, Danish Handball Championship 8 times and the Danish Handbal ...
, a Danish handball club
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Gynecologic Oncology Group
The Gynecologic Oncology Group (GOG) is a non-profit organization funded by the National Cancer Institute with the purpose of supporting research for the prevention and treatment of all gynecologic cancers, such as ovarian cancer, cervical cancer, ...
, a non-profit organization researching gynecological cancers
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Giovine Orchestra Genovese
Giovine Orchestra Genovese (also known as GOG) is an Italian music organization, concert society and cultural association, founded in 1912 in Genoa by Giovanni Semeria. A nonprofit organization, it organizes and produces classical and chamber mus ...
, music organization, concert society and cultural association, based in Genoa, Italy
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Oaks of Albion, a pair of oak trees in Glastonbury, Somerset, England, known individually as Gog and Magog
See also
* Gogg, a character in the 1993 television series ''
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