Guardian
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Guardian may refer to:
Guardian or The Guardian may also refer to:
In businesses and organizations
- Guardian Building Society, a former UK building society, now merged into the Cheltenham & Gloucester
- Guardian Capital Group, a publicly traded asset management
- Guardian Industries, a manufacturer of glass, automotive and building products headquartered in Auburn Hills, Michigan
- Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, a mutual life insurance company domiciled in New York
- Guardian, the name in Malaysia and Singapore for Mannings, a health care retailer
In media and entertainment
In books and comics
- Guardian (comics), various comics
- The Guardian (novel), a novel by Nicholas Sparks
- The Guardians (novel), a 1970 novel by John Christopher
- The Guardians, a novel by Ana Castillo
- Guardians of the Galaxy, two fictional superhero teams in Marvel Comics
- Guardians of the Universe, a fictional alien race in DC Comics
- Philosopher kings, also called Guardians, a type of figure in Plato's Republic
- The Guardians, a series of military science fiction novels by Richard Austin
- Guardian, a supercomputer in the book Colossus
Card, computer, and video games
- Guardian (video game), a 3D shoot 'em up for the Amiga CD32 games console
- Guardians (card game)
- The Last Guardian, a video game for PlayStation 4
- The Guardian, an alien being in the Ultima series
- The main and player character of The Guardian Legend
- A playable class in the MMORPG The Lord of the Rings Online
- Guardians and Elder Guardians, mobs found in the Ocean Monument structure in Minecraft
- Guardians, player characters in Destiny (video game)
In film
- The Guardian (1917 film), a film starring Montagu Love
- The Guardian (1984 film), a thriller film starring Martin Sheen, Louis Gossett Jr., and Arthur Hill
- The Guardian (1990 film), a horror film directed by William Friedkin
- The Guardian (2000 film), a drama directed by Gerry Lively and starring Frank Zagarino
- Guardian (film), a 2001 action film directed by John Terlesky and starring Mario Van Peebles and James Remar
- The Guardian (2006 film), a drama starring Kevin Costner and Ashton Kutcher
- The Guardians (2010 film), a comedy film starring Ron Palillo
- The Guardian (2012 film), a feature film by Zaza Urushadze
- Guardians (film), a Russian superhero film
- Guardian, a supercomputer in the film Colossus: The Forbin Project
In music
- Guardian (band)
- "Guardian" (song), a 2012 song by Alanis Morissette from her album Havoc and Bright Lights
Newspapers
In Canada
In the United Kingdom
- The Guardian, founded in 1821 as the Manchester Guardian and renamed in 1959
- theguardian.com, online resource of The Guardian
- The Guardian (1713), founded in 1713 and running only briefly
- The Guardian (Anglican newspaper), an Anglican newspaper founded in 1846 and running until 1951
- Cornish Guardian, a Cornish local weekly newspaper
- Lancaster Guardian, a broadsheet of Lancaster, Lancashire
- Richmond Guardian and other Guardian newspaper titles published in south west London and in Surrey by Newsquest (London) Ltd
- South Wales Guardian, a South Wales local newspaper
In the United States
- Boston Guardian (published 1901–1950)
- National Guardian, a New York weekly newspaper founded in 1948 renamed The Guardian in 1967 and running until 1992
- San Francisco Bay Guardian
- UCSD Guardian, the official newspaper for the University of California, San Diego
In other countries
- The Guardian (Belize)
- The Guardian (Nigeria)
- The Guardian, The Worker's Weekly, a newspaper published by the Communist Party of Australia
- The Sunday Guardian (India), a weekly newspaper
- Trinidad and Tobago Guardian
In television
- The Guardians (TV series), a 1971 UK television drama series on ITV
- A group of characters in the 1984 TV series Challenge of the GoBots
- "The Guardian" (Sliders), an episode of the television series Sliders
- The Guardian (TV film), a 1997 television film starring Stephanie Niznik
- The Guardian, a character in the 1999 television series The Tribe
- The Guardian (TV series), a CBS series that first aired in 2001 starring Simon Baker
- Guardians Evolution a 2014 claymation series on APTN Kids
Plays
- Guardians (play), an off-Broadway stage play by Peter Morris
- The Guardian (play), the Caroline era stage play by Philip Massinger
Sports
- Galle Guardians, a Sri Lankan domestic T20 cricket team
- GuardiaN, the in-game name of Ladislav Kovács, a professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player
In the military
- HMS Guardian, three ships of the Royal Navy
- USS Guardian, three ships of the U.S. Navy
- Grumman AF Guardian, a warplane of the US Navy
- Northrop Grumman Guardian, an anti-missile system for commercial airliners
- The Guardian (JCS), a publication from the office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
In religion
- Custos (Franciscans), the term used in place of Religious Superior among Franciscans
- Guardian angel, assigned to protect and guide a particular person or group
- Guardian (Bahá'í Faith), a now defunct hereditary office of the Bahá'í Faith
- Medusa, one of the Gorgons of Greek mythology. Her name means Guardian, or Protectress
Other uses
- Guardian (polymer), a substrate used in the production of polymer banknotes
- Galaxy (spacecraft), previously Guardian, a cancelled prototype space habitat
- The Guardian telephone exchange, an underground telephone exchange
- Guardian temperament, one of the four temperaments according to the Keirsey Temperament Sorter
- Guardians, artworks by American artist Kris Neely
See also
- All pages beginning with "Guardian"
- All pages with titles containing Guardian
- Guard (disambiguation)
- Guardia (disambiguation)
- La Guardia (disambiguation)
- Guarda (disambiguation)
- The Guard (disambiguation)
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