Guardian

Guardian may refer to:

• Legal guardian

Newspapers

In the United Kingdom

• The Guardian, founded in 1821 as the Manchester Guardian and renamed in 1959
• The Guardian (1713), founded in 1713 and running only briefly
• The Guardian (Anglican newspaper), an Anglican newspaper founded in 1846 and running until 1951
• Lancaster Guardian, a broadsheet of Lancaster, Lancashire
• Cornish Guardian, a Cornish local weekly newspaper

In Canada

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

In the United States

• San Francisco Bay Guardian
• Guardian (US), a New York newspaper founded in 1948 as the National Guardian, renamed in 1967 and running until 1992
• UCSD Guardian, the official newspaper for the University of California, San Diego

In other countries

• The Guardian (Belize)
• The Guardian (Nigeria)
• Trinidad Guardian
• The newspaper of the Communist Party of Australia (current)

Military

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

Film, television and theatre

• The Guardian (1990 film), a horror film directed by William Friedkin
• The Guardian (2006 film), a drama starring Kevin Costner and Ashton Kutcher
• The Guardian (TV series), a CBS series that first aired in 2001 starring Simon Baker
• The Guardians (TV series), an ITV series that aired in 1971
• The Guardian (play), the Caroline era stage play by Philip Massinger
• Guardians (play), an Off-Broadway stage play by Peter Morris
• The Black Guardian and White Guardian, supreme beings in the Whoniverse
• A group of characters in the TV series Challenge of the GoBots
• A supercomputer in both the book Colossus and the film Colossus: The Forbin Project
• The Guardian, a character in the television series The Tribe

Books and comics

• The Guardian (novel), a novel by Micheal Hay
• The Guardians (novel), a novel by John Christopher
• The Guardian's Bane, a novel by Simone Clark
• Guardian (comics), various comics
• The Guardians series, a series of military science fiction novels by Richard Austin
• The Guardian (novel), a novel by Nicholas Sparks
• Guardians of the Universe, a fictional alien race in DC Comics

Card, computer, and video games

• The name given to Immortals (GMs) in the first online 3D MMORPG, Meridian 59.
• Guardians (card game)
• A fictional unit in the computer game Battle Realms
• Zerg, a fictional race in the computer game StarCraft
• Guardian (video game), a 3D shoot 'em up for the Amiga CD32 games console
• An indestructible enemy in the Final Fantasy VI console game
• The enemy of the Avatar in the Ultima series
• The main and player character of The Guardian Legend
• The operating system of the Tandem Computers/HP NonStop series
• They are basic unit in Dwarven faction, in game The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II that can be upgraded with Siege Hammers, Mithril Male, Forged Blades and a Banner Carrier.

Other uses

• Guardian Building Society, a former UK building society, now merged into the Cheltenham & Gloucester
• Guardian Capital Group, a publicly traded asset managemet
• Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, a mutual life insurance company domiciled in New York
• Guardian Industries, a manufacturer of glass, automotive and building products
• Guardian (band)
• Guardian, the name in Malaysia and Singapore for Mannings, a health care retailer
• Shoghi Effendi, the appointed leader (Guardian) of the Bahá'í Faith from 1921 to 1957
• Philosopher king, a type of figure in Plato's Republic
• Guardian temperament, one of the four temperaments according to the Keirsey Temperament Sorter
• The Guardian Exchange, an underground telephone exchange
• Galaxy, previously Guardian, is a canceled prototype space habitat

See also

• The Guard (disambiguation)