Guardian

Guardian may refer to:

• Legal guardian

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
• 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 Galaxy (1969 team)
  • Guardians of the Galaxy (2008 team)
• 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 3
• The Guardian, an alien being in the Ultima series
• The main and player character of The Guardian Legend
• A playable class in the MMORPG 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
• 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

• The Guardian (Charlottetown)
• The Brampton Guardian
• Etobicoke Guardian
• York Guardian

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 (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

In the military

• HMS Guardian, three ships of the Royal Navy
• USS Guardian, three ships of the U.S. Navy
• 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
• Medusa, one of the Gorgons of Greek mythology. Her name means Guardian, or Protectress
• Shoghi Effendi, the appointed leader (Guardian) of the Bahá'í Faith from 1921 to his death in 1957

Other uses

• Guardian (polymer), a substrate used in the production of polymer banknotes
• Galaxy (spacecraft), previously Guardian, a cancelled prototype space habitat
• The Guardian 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)