Chief
Appearance
Chief may refer to:
People
- Chief (nickname) people with the nickname
Title or rank
Military and law enforcement
- Commander-in-chief, the person that exercises supreme operational command and control of a nation's military forces
- Chief of the Boat, the senior enlisted sailor on a U.S. Navy submarine
- Chief of police, the head of a police department
- Chief Master Sergeant, in the United States Air Force
- Chief petty officer, a non-commissioned officer or equivalent in many navies
- Chief warrant officer, a military rank
Other titles
- Chief officer, the highest senior officer in the deck department on a merchant vessel
- Chief of the Name, head of a family or clan
- Fire chief, top rank in a fire department
- Scottish clan chief, the head of a Scottish clan
- Tribal chief, the head of a tribal form of self-government
Aircraft
- Aeronca 50 Chief, an American light plane of the late 1930s
- Aeronca 11 Chief, an American two-seat airplane entering production in 1945
- Pawnee Chief, an American two seat helicopter design, first flown in 2005
Media
Literature
- Chiefs (novel), a 1981 novel by Stuart Woods
- The Chief (play), a 2003 one-man play about Art Rooney
- The Chief (newspaper) (briefly The Chief-Leader), a newspaper aimed at civil service workers in New York City
Music
- Chief Records, a record label 1957-1964
- Chief (band), a band signed to Domino Records
- Chief (album), a 2011 album by Eric Church
Film and television
- The Chief (film), a 1933 American comedy film
- The Chief (UK TV series), a 1990s crime drama
- Chiefs (miniseries), a 1983 miniseries starring Charlton Heston and Keith Carradine
Fictional characters
- Chief (comics), the leader of the Doom Patrol
- The Chief (Carmen Sandiego), in the Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? franchise
- Galen Tyrol or "The Chief", in the 2004 TV series Battlestar Galactica
- Master Chief (Halo) or just "Chief", in the gaming franchise Halo
- Chief, in the film The Fox and the Hound and in the novel on which it is based
- The Chief, in the TV situation comedy Get Smart
- The Chief, in the animated TV series The Plastic Man Comedy/Adventure Show
- The Chief, in the animated TV series T.U.F.F. Puppy
- Chief Bromden, in the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and in the film adaptation
- Charlestown Chiefs, a fictional ice hockey team in the film Slap Shot
Sports
- Chiefs (rugby union), a rugby union team in New Zealand
- Allentown Chiefs, a former minor league baseball team
- Arellano Chiefs, the athletic team of Arellano University
- Atlanta Chiefs, a soccer team based in Atlanta, Georgia
- Exeter Chiefs, a rugby union team in England
- Hartford Chiefs, a former minor league baseball franchise representing Hartford, Connecticut
- Johnstown Chiefs, an ice hockey team in Pennsylvania that took its name from the fictional Charlestown Chiefs (see above)
- Lakefield Chiefs, a Canadian Junior ice hockey team based in Lakefield, Ontario, Canada
- Laval Chiefs, an ice hockey team in Quebec
- Kaizer Chiefs F.C., a football club in South Africa
- Kansas City Chiefs, an American football team in Missouri
- Mississauga Chiefs, a former professional women's ice hockey team from Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
- Mississauga Jr. Chiefs, a Canadian Junior women's ice hockey team based in Mississauga, Ontario
- Motor City Chiefs, a forme ice hockey organization from Dearborn Heights, Michigan
- Peoria Chiefs, a minor league baseball affiliate in Peoria, Illinois of the Chicago Cubs
- South City Chiefs, an American football club competing in the South Australian Gridiron Association league
- Spokane Chiefs, a Western Hockey League ice hockey team from Spokane, Washington
- Syracuse Chiefs, a AAA minor league baseball team in upstate New York
- Wenatchee Chiefs, a former minor league baseball team based in Wenatchee, Washington.
Sports competitors nicknamed "Chief"
- Chief Bender
- Sheldon "Chief" Bender
- Big Chief Bonner
- Chief Chouneau
- Chief Hogsett
- Chief Johnson
- Chief Jones
- Chief Meyers
- Chief Roseman
- Alfred Michael "Chief" Venne
- Chief Wilson
- Chief Youngblood
- Chief Zimmer
Chief mascots
Other uses
- Chief (heraldry), a horizontal band on a coat of arms
- Chief (train), a named passenger train of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
- Customs Handling of Import & Export Freight (CHIEF), a UK customs computer system
- Stawamus Chief, aka "The Chief", a granite dome in British Columbia
- Amauris echeria, a butterfly of southern Africa