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

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)
One of various newspapers in New South Wales

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

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