Gentle Giant (disambiguation)

Gentle Giant were a British progressive rock band from 1970 to 1980.

Gentle Giant may also refer to:

In music

• Gentle Giant (album), the band's 1970 debut album
• The Gentle Giant , a 1972 album by Yusef Lateef
• Gentle Giant, a 2009 EP and song on the EP by The Nobility
• "Gentle Giant (for Hank)", a track on the 2010 album Let's Touch the Sky by the jazz group Fourplay

Mountains

• Mount Elbert, highest summit of the Rocky Mountains, called the "gentle giant"
• Mount Moosilauke, New Hampshire, sometimes referred to as the "Gentle Giant"

People

• André the Giant (1946–1993) French wrestler and actor with gigantism.
• Claude Coats (1913–1992), American artist, animator and set designer associated with Disney
• Mal Evans (1935–1976), road manager, assistant and friend of the Beatles
• Manuel Martínez Gutiérrez (born 1974), Spanish retired shot putter
• Geoff Leek (1932–2008), Australian rules footballer
• Stuart S. Murray (1898–1980), US Navy vice admiral
• Günter Schlierkamp (born 1970), German retired professional bodybuilder
• Lee Roy Selmon (1954–2011), American National Football League player
• Lacina Traoré (born 1990), footballer from Ivory Coast
• Robert Wadlow (1918–1940), tallest person in history for whom there is irrefutable evidence
• Don Williams (1939–2017), American singer and songwriter nicknamed the "Gentle Giant" of country music
• Arthur Wint (1920–1992), Jamaican middle-distance runner and first Jamaican Olympic champion

Other uses

• Gentle Giant (film), a 1967 film about a boy and his pet bear
• Gentle Giant Moving Company, a national American moving company
• nickname of the Flemish Giant rabbit, a breed of domestic rabbit

See also

• John Charles (1931–2004), Welsh footballer nicknamed "Il Gigante Buono" ("The Gentle Giant") while playing in Italy
• Contrabass flute and Subcontrabass flute, both sometimes called the "gentle giant" of the flute family