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
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
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)
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