Leviathan, a Biblical sea monster, has had its name reused numerous times:
- Leviathan is a 1651 book by Thomas Hobbes.
- In modern Hebrew, leviathan is the word for whale.
- The term is used in Moby-Dick as a reference to the whale.
- The 1920s-30s United States Lines ocean liner "SS Leviathan" was the world's largest ship for nearly 20 years. Launched as the "Vaterland" by the Hamburg-America Line in 1913, it was seized from the Germans by the Americans in New York in 1917, renamed "Leviathan" by President Woodrow Wilson. It was scrapped in 1936 in Scotland.
- The number (10666)! has been termed the Leviathan number.
- In the Farscape science fiction series, leviathans are living spaceships such as Moya and Talyn.
- Leviathan appears in the Illuminatus trilogy.
- Leviathan was the name of a 1989 film.
- The collectible card game Magic: The Gathering has a creature card called Leviathan.
- In the popular Final Fantasy video game series, Leviathan is a powerful creature who can be summoned. Leviathan's attacks usually deal elemental water damage and its form is usually that of a serpent.
- In Disney's Atlantis Leviathan was the name of a guardian construct of the Atlanteans.
- Leviathan is the name of a 1992 novel by Paul Auster.
- Leviathan is also the name of a comic strip by Peter Blegvad .
- The online computer game Continuum has a ship named Leviathan.
- Leviathan was the title of a 1999 'biography' of the city of Sydney, Australia by author John Birmingham
- In the computer game Age of Mythology, Leviathan is used to trasport armies and destroy enemy ships.
- Leviathan is the name of a vehicle in the game Unreal Tournament 2004.
- A black metal band from San Francisco, USA, which has released material on Moribund Cult Records is called Leviathan.
- In the 2003 LucasArts RPG Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Leviathan is Admiral Saul Karath 's flagship.
- The band Mastadon released an album named Leviathan in (2004).
