Chief
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Chief may refer to the following:
Title or rank
- Tribal chief, the head of a tribal form of self-government
- Scottish clan chief, the head of a Scottish clan
- Chiefs of the Name, the head of a family or clan
- Paramount chief
- Chief Petty Officer, a non-commissioned officer or equivalent in many navies
- Chief of the Boat, the senior enlisted sailor on a submarine in the US Navy
- Chief Engineer, the senior officer in the engineering department on a merchant vessel
- Warrant Officer, in the United States Army
- Chief Master Sergeant, in the United States Air Force
- Fire chief, top rank in a fire department
- Chief of police, the head of a police department
- Chief teacher, the headmaster's assistant.
Sports
- Chiefs (Super rugby franchise), formerly Waikato Chiefs, a rugby team in New Zealand
- Exeter Chiefs, a Rugby Union team in England
- Laval Chiefs, an ice hockey team in Quebec
- Kaizer Chiefs FC, a football club in South Africa
- Kansas City Chiefs, an American football team in Missouri
- Syracuse Chiefs, a minor league baseball team in upstate New York
- Charlestown Chiefs, a fictional ice hockey team in the film Slap Shot
- Johnstown Chiefs, a real ice hockey team in Pennsylvania which took its name from the Charlestown Chiefs
- Peoria Chiefs, a minor league baseball affiliate in Peoria, Illinois of the Chicago Cubs
People nicknamed The Chief
- Art Rooney, founding owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers
- Robert Parish, professional basketball player in the NBA
- Harold Roe Bartle, former mayor of Kansas City, Missouri and founder of the Tribe of Mic-O-Say
- Chad Cordero, professional baseball player in the MLB
- John Diefenbaker, former Prime Minister of Canada
- Paul Harragon, Australia Rugby League former player and commentator
- Charles Stewart Parnell
- Jamie Thomas, Pro skateboarder and owner of Black Box Distribution
- Noel Gallagher, for his dominating position in the British band Oasis, as opposed to the nickname used for his brother Liam, "Our Kid"
- Jason Dunstall, former AFL Footballer with Hawthorn
- Felipe Rose, the "Indian Chief" in the Village People
- Johnny Bucyk, retired Hall of Fame NHL Player. Spent his career with the Boston Bruins
People nicknamed Chief
- Wayne Allison, a football player
Aircraft
- Aeronca 50 Chief, an American light plane of the late 1930s
- Aeronca 11 Chief, a two-seat airplane entering production in 1945
Media
- The Chief-Leader, a newspaper aimed at civil service workers in New York City
- Chief (comics), a fictional character and the mastermind behind the Doom Patrol
- Chief (Carmen Sandiego), a fictional character in the Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? franchise of computer games and TV shows
- The Chief, a fictional character (played by Edward Platt) from the television situation comedy Get Smart
- The Chief, a fictional character in The Plastic Man Comedy/Adventure Show
- The Chief (TV series), a television series on CablePulse 24 in Toronto, Ontario
- Chiefs (TV miniseries), a 1983 TV miniseries starring Charlton Heston and Keith Carradine
- Chiefs (novel), a novel by Stuart Woods
- The Chief (UK television series), an Anglia TV drama around a fictional Chief Constable in Eastlands Constabulary, played initially by Tim Piggott-Smith, and latterly, Martin Shaw
- Chief Bromden, a fictional character in the novel and film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Chief, a fictional character in the novel and film The Fox and the Hound.
- "Chief", a nickname for fictional character Galen Tyrol in the 2004 TV series Battlestar Galactica
- "Chief", a nickname for the fictional character Master Chief Petty Officer John-117 of the popular gaming franchise Halo
Places
- Stawamus Chief, a granite monolith near Squamish, British Columbia, Canada
Other meanings
- Chief, a band signed to Domino Records
- Chief (heraldry), a horizontal band on a coat of arms
- Chief (passenger train)
- Chief Illiniwek, the symbol for the Illinois Fighting Illini athletics until 2007
- CHIEF, an acronym for Customs Handling of Import & Export Freight, the UK customs computer system
- Chief Records