Guardian
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Guardian may refer to:
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
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)
- 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
- 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 Guardians (novel), a novel by John Christopher
- 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 NonStop series
Other uses
- Guardian Building Society, a former UK building society, now merged into the Cheltenham & Gloucester
- Guardian Capital Group, a publicly traded asset management
- Guardian Life Insurance Company of America
- 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