Caliban

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Caliban may refer to:

  • Caliban (moon), a moon of Uranus
  • Caliban (character), a character in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest
  • Caliban (band), a metalcore band from Germany
  • Caliban (comics), a mutant character in the Marvel Comics Universe
  • Isaac Asimov's Caliban, the first of a trilogy of science-fiction novels by Roger MacBride Allen
  • Caliban Web, a web content management system
  • Caliban (Arduin dungeon), a dungeon module from the Arduin series
  • Caliban, the homeworld of the Dark Angels in the fictional Warhammer 40,000 universe.
  • Caliban, a playable race from the Ravenloft Dungeons & Dragons role playing game. Originally simply Ravenloftian Half-Orcs, In the eight issue of the Quoth the Raven fanzine, the Caliban rules were updated to produce a unique species, with a variety of deformities and five sub-breeds (Brute, Bestial, Cannibal, Banshee and Witchspawn)
  • Caliban, or Caliburn was also the name of the sword of Julius Caesar, reputed to have survived into the fifth and sixth centuries, and a considered basis for the mythical sword Excalibur
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