Guardian

Guardian may refer to:

• Legal guardian, a person with the authority and duty to care for the interests of another

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

Places

• Guardian, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in Webster County, West Virginia
• Guardian Nunatak, a rock exposure near Mount Robert Scott in Antarctica
• Guardian Rock, an ice-free rock in Bigourdan Fjord, off Antarctica

People

• GuardiaN (born 1991), in-game name of Ladislav Kovács, Slovak professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive video game player
• Don Guardian (born 1953), mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictitious or symbolic 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 type of figure 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
• The Guardians, a group of characters in the 1984 TV series Challenge of the GoBots

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

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 (novel), a 1970 novel by John Christopher
• 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
• "Guardian" (song), a 2012 song by Alanis Morissette from her album Havoc and Bright Lights
• Guardians (The Crimson Armada album), 2009
• Guardians (August Burns Red album), 2020

Periodicals

Canada

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

United Kingdom

• Guardian Media Group, owners of The Guardian and The Observer
  • The Guardian, a center-left newspaper in the United Kingdom, founded in 1821 as the Manchester Guardian and renamed in 1959
    • 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 newspaper published in Ashburton, New Zealand
• The Guardian (Belize), the official print organ of the United Democratic Party
• The Guardian (Nigeria), an independent daily newspaper published in Lagos, Nigeria
• The Sunday Guardian, an Indian weekly newspaper based in New Delhi
• 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
• Guardians, artworks by American artist Kris Neely
• The Guardian (sculpture), a 1995 public artwork by artist Ante Buljan in Redwood City, California, USA
• Wächter (Anatol) (Guardian), several monumental outdoor sculpture by Anatol Herzfeld

Businesses and organizations

• Guardian Building Society, a former UK building society, which merged into the Cheltenham & Gloucester Building Society
• Guardian Capital Group, a publicly traded asset management company
• 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
• The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, a mutual life insurance company domiciled in New York

Military

• Grumman AF Guardian, a warplane of the U.S. Navy
• HMS Guardian, three ships of the Royal Navy
• Northrop Grumman Guardian, an anti-missile system for commercial airliners
• USS Guardian, three ships of the U.S. Navy

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

Other uses

• Guardian (database), a reporting system used by the FBI to track threats and other intelligence information
• Guardian (fireboat), a fireboat operated in the San Francisco Bay since 1990 in reserve status
• Guardian (polymer), a substrate used in the production of polymer banknotes
• Galaxy (spacecraft), previously Guardian, a cancelled prototype space habitat
• Galle Guardians, a Sri Lankan domestic T20 cricket team
• 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 telephone exchange, an underground telephone exchange
• Guardian temperament, one of the four temperaments according to the Keirsey Temperament Sorter
• Wonder Mountain's Guardian, an interactive dark ride roller coaster at Canada's Wonderland, Vaughan, Ontario, Canada

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)