Messiah (disambiguation)

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The Messiah is a title given to a saviour or liberator of a group of people in Abrahamic religions.

Messiah also may refer to:

• Christ (title), Greek translation of Messiah

Religious figures

• Jesus, the Messiah in Christianity
• Moshiach, the Messiah in Judaism

Music

• Messiah Stradivarius, a 1716 Stradivari violin
• Messiah (Handel), a 1741 oratorio by George Frideric Handel
• The Young Messiah (musical), originally titled Messiah XXI – The Young Messiah, a modern adaptation of Handel's Messiah

Bands

• Messiah (Swiss band), a death/thrash metal band from Switzerland
• Messiah (UK band), a techno group from London

Albums

• Messiah (Fear Factory album), a Fear Factory album
• Messiah (Mormon Tabernacle Choir album), a Mormon Tabernacle Choir album
• Messiah (EP), a 2003 album by Godflesh

Songs

• "Messiah", song by The Farm, 1994
• "Messiah", song by Madonna, 2015
• "Messiah", song by MONSTA, 2013

Books and Literature

• Messiah (English poem), a 1709 poem by Alexander Pope
• Messiah (Latin poem), a poem by Alexander Pope
• Der Messias (Klopstock), an epic poem (ed. 1748 to 1773) by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
• The Messiah, a novel on 16th century advocate of a return to Palestine David Reubeni by Marek Halter
• The Messiah (Marjorie Holmes novel), a novel by Marjorie Holmes based on the life of Jesus
• Messiah (Vidal novel), a 1954 satirical novel by Gore Vidal
• Messiah (Boris Starling novel), a 1999 thriller by Boris Starling
• The Messiah, a play by the National Theatre of Brent

Film and TV

• Messiah (TV series), a BBC television drama series based upon the thriller by Boris Starling
• Messiah (Derren Brown special), a Channel 4 television show
• Messiah (1999 film), French film performance of Handel's oratorio
• The Messiah (2007 film), also known as Mesih, a 2007 film directed by Nader Talebzadeh on the life of Jesus from an Islamic perspective
• Messiah (2011 film), a 2011 film
• The Young Messiah, a 2016 film

Other uses

• Messiah College, a Christian liberal arts college in Grantham, Pennsylvania
• Kevin Keegan (born 1951), former England football player known as the Geordie messiah
• The Messiah (wrestler)
• Lionel Messi or Messiah, Argentinian football player
• Messiah (software), a computer animation and rendering package
• Messiah (video game), a 2000 third person shooter video game by Interplay

People with the surname

• Albert Messiah (born 1921), physicist and author of a classic graduate text on quantum mechanics

See also

• False messiah
• Christ (disambiguation)
• The Anointed One (disambiguation)
• Savage Messiah (disambiguation)
• Dark Messiah (disambiguation)
• The Chosen One (disambiguation)