Giant (disambiguation)
Riese stands for:
- Giant , oversized mythological creature or mythical creature in human form
- oversized person, see giant stature
- Giant star or giant , very large stars in astronomy
- Giant (ancient Egyptian constellation) in the Ramesside star clocks
- Riese (wood) , wooden channel for transporting tree trunks from the mountain to the valley
- Giant: Kingdom Falling , Canadian fantasy television series (from 2009)
Places:
- Riese (Nordhastedt) , settlement on Riesewohld
- Riese Pio X , Giant for short , municipality in Veneto, Italy
- Project Riese , incomplete Führer headquarters in the Silesian Owl Mountains
Riese is the family name of the following people:
- Adam Riese (around 1493–1559), German arithmetic master, see Adam Ries
- Adolf Riese (1886–1942), German architect (murdered in Auschwitz )
- Alexander Riese (1840–1922), German classical philologist
- Arnold Riese (1871–1912), Austrian politician
- Berthold Riese (* 1944), German ethnologist and archaeologist
- Cornelius Riese (* 1975), German manager
- Eberhard Riese (* 1951), German Director of Studies and Vice President of the Magic Circle of Germany
- Friedrich Riese (1895–1966), German detective director and SS leader
- Friedrich Christian von Riese (1790–1868), German mathematician and astronomer
- Friedrich Wilhelm Riese (around 1805–1879), German librettist and playwright
- Gerhard Riese (* 1954), German badminton player
- Günter Riese (* 1938), German soccer player
- Hajo Riese (* 1933), Austrian professor of economics
- Hans Riese (1868 – after 1930), German manager
- Hans-Peter Riese (* 1941), German journalist, art critic and collector
- Heinrich Riese (1864–1928), German surgery professor in Berlin
- Johann August Otto Riese (1850–1939), German builder
- Johann Karl Friedrich Riese (1759–1834), German sculptor and porcelain artist
- Hildegard Riese-Kling (* 1926), German actress
- Katharina Riese (born Katharina Brenner , * 1946), Austrian writer
- Lorenzo Riese (also Lorenz Riese , 1836–1907), German singer (tenor)
- Martin Riese (* 1976), German restaurateur, author and American TV personality
- Max Riese (1868–1943), German chemist, entrepreneur and inventor of the Penaten cream
- Otto Riese (entrepreneur) (1825–1901), German entrepreneur
- Otto Riese (1894–1977), German lawyer and judge at the European Court of Justice
- Peter Riese (puppeteer) (1955–2005), German puppeteer
- Peter Riese (composer) (* 1968), German musician, composer and producer
- Philipp Riese (* 1989), German soccer player
- Roland Riese (Badminton) (* 1949), German badminton player
- Roland Riese (politician) (* 1960), German politician (FDP)
- Steffen Oliver Riese (* 1974), German photographer
- Walther Riese (1890–1976), German-American psychiatrist and medical historian
See also:
- List of all Wikipedia articles whose title begins with giant
- List of all Wikipedia articles whose title contains Riese
- Rieser (German-speaking surname)
- Rieseberg , Riesen , Riesel , Reese , Riise , Rise , Risse , Ries (definition of terms)
Wiktionary: Giant - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
