Guardian

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Guardian usually refers to:

• Legal guardian, a person with the authority and duty to care for the interests of another
• The Guardian, a British daily newspaper

(The) Guardian(s) may also refer to:

Places

• Guardian, West Virginia, United States, an unincorporated community in Webster County
• Guardian Nunatak, a landform on Antarctica's Dufek Coast
• Guardian Rock, an islet off the Antarctic Peninsula in Bigourdan Fjord
• Guardian telephone exchange, Manchester, England
• Wonder Mountain's Guardian, a roller coaster at Canada's Wonderland, Vaughan, Ontario

People

• GuardiaN (Ladislav Kovács; born 1991), Slovak professional video-game player
• Angel Guardian (born 1998), Filipina actress and singer
• Don Guardian (born 1953), mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

See also: Religion

• Guardian (comics), characters from various comics
• Guardian (DC Comics), a DC Comics superhero
• Guardian (Highlander), a character in the film Highlander: The Source (2007)
• Guardian, a supercomputer in American science fiction thriller film Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)
• Guardians, player characters in Destiny, a 2014 first-person shooter video game
• Guardians, a playable class in the game The Lord of the Rings Online
• Philosopher kings, also called Guardians, a rôle hypothesised in Plato's Republic
• The Guardian, the main and player character of The Guardian Legend, a 1988 video game
• The Guardian, an alien being in the Ultima series of role-playing video games
• The Guardians, a group of characters in the 1984 TV series Challenge of the GoBots
• Guardians, police officers in The Handmaid's Tale (TV series)

Films

• Guardian, a 2001 film directed by John Terlesky
• The Guardian (1917 film), a silent film starring Montagu Love and June Elvidge
• The Guardian (1990 film), a horror film directed by William Friedkin
• The Guardian, a 1997 television film starring Stephanie Niznik
• The Guardian (2006 film), a drama starring Kevin Costner and Ashton Kutcher
• Guardians (2012 film), a German action film
• Guardians (2017 film), a Russian superhero film
• The Guardians (2017 film), a French film directed by Xavier Beauvois
• Guardian (2021 film), a Malayalam film directed by Satheesh Paul

Games

• Guardian (1986 video game), a 1986 beat 'em up for arcades
• Guardians (card game), a collectible card game published in 1995/96
• Guardian (video game), a 1994 3D shoot 'em up for the Amiga CD32 games console
• Guardians (video game), a 1995 coin-operated arcade game

Literature

• Guardians (play), a 2005 off-Broadway stage play by Peter Morris
• The Guardian (novel), a 2003 novel by Nicholas Sparks
• The Guardian (play), a 1633 Caroline era stage play by Philip Massinger, reworked 1642 by A. Cowley
• The Guardians (Christopher novel), a 1970 novel by John Christopher
• The Guardians (Abbey novel), a 1982 novel by Lynn Abbe
• The Guardians (Grisham novel), a 2019 legal thriller novel by John Grisham
• The Guardians, a series of military science fiction novels by Richard Austin
• The Guardians, a novel by Ana Castillo

Music

• Guardian (band), an American Christian hard rock/metal band
• Guardians (The Crimson Armada album), 2009
• Guardians (August Burns Red album), 2020
• "Guardian" (song), a 2012 song by Alanis Morissette from her album Havoc and Bright Lights
• "Guardian", a song by Fates Warning from their 1986 album Awaken the Guardian
• Guardians Drum and Bugle Corps, a drum and bugle corp from Dallas, Texas

News and periodicals

Australia

• Daily Guardian (Sydney), a former newspaper in Sydney, Australia
• The Guardian, a bulletin of the Communist Party of Australia (1971)

Canada

• Brampton Guardian, a free, weekly community newspaper in Ontario
• Etobicoke Guardian, a weekly suburban newspaper in Toronto
• The Guardian (Charlottetown), a daily newspaper on Prince Edward Island

United Kingdom

• Guardian Media Group, owners of The Guardian , The Observer and The Guardian Weekly
  • The Guardian, formerly Manchester Guardian
  • theGuardian.com, online resource of The Guardian
• Cornish Guardian, a local weekly newspaper in Cornwall, England
• Farmers Guardian, a weekly newspaper aimed at the British farming industry
• Glasgow University Guardian, the student newspaper of the University of Glasgow
• Neath Guardian (published 1925–2009), a local weekly newspaper in Neath, Wales
• South Wales Guardian, a local newspaper in Ammanford, Wales
• The Guardian (1713), a London newspaper founded in 1713 and running only briefly
• The Guardian (Anglican newspaper), an Anglican newspaper founded in 1846 and running until 1951
• Local and regional newspapers published by Newsquest

United States

• Boston Guardian (published 1901–1950), an African-American newspaper in Boston, Massachusetts
• National Guardian, a New York weekly newspaper founded in 1948, renamed The Guardian in 1967 and running until 1992
• San Francisco Bay Guardian, a free alternative newspaper published weekly in San Francisco, California
• UCSD Guardian, the student newspaper at the University of California, San Diego

Elsewhere

• Ashburton Guardian, a daily, later tri-weekly, newspaper in Ashburton, New Zealand
• The Guardian (Belize), the official print organ of the United Democratic Party
• Daily Guardian (Iloilo), an English-language newspaper in Iloilo City, Philippines
• The Guardian (Nigeria), an independent daily newspaper published in Lagos, Nigeria
• The Sunday Guardian, a weekly newspaper based in New Delhi, India
• Trinidad and Tobago Guardian, a daily newspaper in Trinidad and Tobago

Television and web series

Series

• Guardian (web series), a Chinese web drama released in 2018
• Guardians Evolution, a 2014 claymation series on APTN Kids
• The Guardian (TV series), a CBS series that first aired in 2001 starring Simon Baker
• The Guardians (South Korean TV series), South Korea
• Guardian: The Lonely and Great God, South Korea
• The Guardians (British TV series), a 1971 UK television drama series

Episodes

• "Guardians" (The Walking Dead), an episode of the television series The Walking Dead
• "The Guardian" (Sliders), an episode of the television series Sliders

Visual arts

• Guardian (sculpture), a statue in Abertillery, Wales, UK
• The Guardian (sculpture), a public artwork in Redwood City, California, USA
• Guardians, artworks by American artist Kris Neely
• Guardians of Traffic, a set of statues on the Hope Memorial Bridge in Cleveland, Ohio, USA
• Wächter (Anatol) (Guardian), several monumental outdoor sculpture by Anatol Herzfeld

Businesses and organizations

Financial institutions

• Guardian Bank, Kenya
• Guardian Building Society, United Kingdom
• Guardian Capital Group, a publicly traded asset management company
• The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, a mutual life insurance company domiciled in New York

Other businesses and organizations

• Guardian Angels, an international volunteer organization for unarmed crime prevention
• Guardian Industries, a manufacturer of glass, automotive and building products headquartered in Auburn Hills, Michigan
• Mannings, known as Guardian in Malaysia and Singapore, a health care retailer

Military

Military vehicles

• Boeing AH-64E Apache Guardian, a variant of the AH-64 Apache
• Dassault HU-25 Guardian, a modified Falcon 20 business jet formerly used by the U.S. Coast Guard
• Grumman AF Guardian, a warplane of the U.S. Navy
• HMS Guardian, three ships of the Royal Navy
• USS Guardian, three ships of the U.S. Navy

Other military uses

• Northrop Grumman Guardian, an anti-missile system for commercial airliners
• Space professionals of the United States Space Force
• Weishi Rockets (Chinese: 卫士; lit. 'Guardian'), a family of Chinese multiple rocket launcher systems

Religion

• Custos (Franciscans) or Guardian, the term used in place of Religious Superior among Franciscans
• Guardian (Baháʼí Faith), a now defunct hereditary office of the Bahá'í Faith
• Guardian angel, assigned to protect and guide a particular person or group
• Guardian deity, a spirit who protects a particular place, person, culture or occupation
• Medusa (meaning "Guardian" or "Protectress"), one of the Gorgons of Greek mythology

Sports

Asia

• Fubon Guardians, a team in the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) in Taiwan
• Galle Guardians, a provincial T20 cricket team in Sri Lanka

United States

• Cleveland Guardians, a team in Major League Baseball (MLB) known as the Cleveland Indians from 1915 through 2021
• Dallas Beer Guardians, an independent supporters group of FC Dallas of Major League Soccer (MLS)
• Golden Guardians, an esports organization
• Orlando Guardians, an American-football team in the XFL, formerly the New York Guardians
• San Diego Guardians, a team in The Basketball League (TBL)

Technology

See also: Military

• Guardian (database), an intel reporting system the FBI use to track threats
• Guardian (polymer), a substrate used in the production of polymer banknotes
• Galaxy (spacecraft), previously Guardian, a cancelled prototype space habitat

Other uses

• Guardian (fireboat), a fireboat operated in the San Francisco Bay since 1990 in reserve status
• Guardian of Scotland, the de facto head of state of Scotland during the interregnums of 1290–1292 and 1296–1306
• Guardian stones, standing stones at the corners of enclosures around a dolmen
• Guardian temperament, one of the four temperaments according to the Keirsey Temperament Sorter

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Guardian
• All pages with titles containing Guardian
• Defender (disambiguation)
• Guard (disambiguation)
• Guarda (disambiguation)
• Guardia (disambiguation)
• La Guardia (disambiguation)
• The Guard (disambiguation)
• The Guardian (disambiguation)