Messiah (disambiguation) explained

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

Messiah also may refer to:

• Messiah (Handel), a 1741 oratorio by George Frideric Handel
• Christ (title), Greek translation of Messiah

Film

• The Messiah (1975 film), an Italian film
• Messiah (1999 film), a French film performance of Handel's oratorio
• The Messiah (2007 film) or Mesih, a 2007 film by Nader Talebzadeh
• Messiah (2011 film), a 2011 film
• Messiah, a 2016 short film by Australian actor and filmmaker Damian Walshe-Howling

Television

• Messiah (British TV series), a BBC television drama series
• Messiah (American TV series), a Netflix TV drama
• Messiah (Derren Brown special), a Channel 4 television show

Literature

• The Messiah (novel), a novel by Marjorie Holmes
• Der Messias (Klopstock), an epic poem (ed. 1748 to 1773) by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
• Messiah (English poem), a 1709 poem by Alexander Pope
• Messiah (Latin poem), a poem by Alexander Pope
• Messiah (Starling novel), a 1999 thriller by Boris Starling
• Messiah (Vidal novel), a 1954 satirical novel by Gore Vidal
  • The Messiah, a novel by Marek Halter The Messiah, a play by the National Theatre of Brent

Music

• Messiah Stradivarius, a 1716 Stradivari violin

Artists

• Messiah (Swiss band), a death/thrash metal band from Switzerland
• Messiah (UK band), a techno group from London
• Mr. Messiah or Yuri Kostrov, Russian electronic musician and DJ
• Mesiah or Eirik Norheim (born 1967), Norwegian musician, former member of Mayhem
• Messiah (rapper)

Albums

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

Songs

• "Messiah", a 1994 song by The Farm
• "Messiah", a 2013 song by I See Monstas
• "Messiah", a 2015 song by Madonna from Rebel Heart
• "Messiah", a 2019 song by Nebula from Holy Shit

Religious figures

• Jesus, the Messiah in Christianity
• Moshiach, the Messiah in Judaism
• Messiah ben Joseph, or Mashiach ben Yoseph, also known as Mashiach bar/ben Ephraim, a Jewish messiah from the tribe of Ephraim and a descendant of Joseph

Sports

• The Messiah (wrestler) (born 1977), American professional wrestler
• Lionel Messi or Messiah, Argentinian football player

Other uses

• Messiah (software), a computer animation and rendering package
• Messiah (video game), a 2000 third person shooter video game by Interplay
• Messiah Cathedral, an Indonesian megachurch of the predominantly Indonesian-Chinese Indonesian Reformed Evangelical Church
• Messiah College, a Christian liberal arts college in Grantham, Pennsylvania
• Messiah complex, a state of mind in which an individual holds a belief that they are destined to become a savior

People

• Aaron Messiah (1858-1940), French architect
• Albert Messiah (1921–2013), French physicist and author of a classic graduate text on quantum mechanics
• Messiah Marcolin (born 1967), real name Bror Jan Alfredo Marcolin, also known as Eddie Marcolin, a vocalist in the doom metal band Candlemass

See also

• Mashiach (disambiguation)
• The Anointed One (disambiguation)
• The Chosen One (disambiguation)
• Christ (disambiguation)
• Church of the Messiah (disambiguation)
• Dark Messiah (disambiguation)
• False messiah
• Kevin Keegan (born 1951), former England football player known as the Geordie messiah
• New Messiah (disambiguation)
• Savage Messiah (disambiguation)