Guardian Explained
Guardian usually refers to:
(The) Guardian(s) may also refer to:
Places
- Guardian, West Virginia, United States, an unincorporated community in Webster County
- Guardian Nunatak, a landform on Antarctica's Dufek Coast
- Guardian Rock, an islet off the Antarctic Peninsula in Bigourdan Fjord
- Guardian telephone exchange, Manchester, England
- Wonder Mountain's Guardian, a roller coaster at Canada's Wonderland, Vaughan, Ontario
People
- GuardiaN (Ladislav Kovács; born 1991), Slovak professional video-game player
- Angel Guardian (born 1998), Filipina actress and singer
- Don Guardian (born 1953), mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States
Arts, entertainment, and media
Fictional entities
- Guardian (comics), characters from various comics
- Guardian (DC Comics), a DC Comics superhero
- Guardian (Highlander), a character in the film Highlander: The Source (2007)
- Guardian, a supercomputer in American science fiction thriller film (1970)
- Guardians, player characters in Destiny, a 2014 first-person shooter video game
- Guardians, a playable class in the game The Lord of the Rings Online
- Philosopher kings, also called Guardians, a rôle hypothesised in Plato's Republic
- The Guardian, the main and player character of The Guardian Legend, a 1988 video game
- The Guardian, an alien being in the Ultima series of role-playing video games
- The Guardians, a group of characters in the 1984 TV series Challenge of the GoBots
- Guardians, police officers in The Handmaid's Tale (TV series)
Films
Games
Literature
Music
News and periodicals
Australia
Canada
United Kingdom
- Guardian Media Group, owners of The Guardian, The Observer and The Guardian Weekly
- Cornish Guardian, a local weekly newspaper in Cornwall, England
- Farmers Guardian, a weekly newspaper aimed at the British farming industry
- Glasgow University Guardian, the student newspaper of the University of Glasgow
- Neath Guardian (published 1925–2009), a local weekly newspaper in Neath, Wales
- South Wales Guardian, a local newspaper in Ammanford, Wales
- The Guardian (1713), a London newspaper founded in 1713 and running only briefly
- The Guardian (Anglican newspaper), an Anglican newspaper founded in 1846 and running until 1951
- Local and regional newspapers published by Newsquest
United States
- Boston Guardian (published 1901–1950), an African-American newspaper in Boston, Massachusetts
- National Guardian, a New York weekly newspaper founded in 1948, renamed The Guardian in 1967 and running until 1992
- San Francisco Bay Guardian, a free alternative newspaper published weekly in San Francisco, California
- UCSD Guardian, the student newspaper at the University of California, San Diego
Elsewhere
- Ashburton Guardian, a daily, later tri-weekly, newspaper in Ashburton, New Zealand
- The Guardian (Belize), the official print organ of the United Democratic Party
- Daily Guardian (Iloilo), an English-language newspaper in Iloilo City, Philippines
- The Guardian (Nigeria), an independent daily newspaper published in Lagos, Nigeria
- The Sunday Guardian, a weekly newspaper based in New Delhi, India
- Trinidad and Tobago Guardian, a daily newspaper in Trinidad and Tobago
Television and web series
Series
Episodes
- "Guardians" (The Walking Dead), an episode of the television series The Walking Dead
- "The Guardian" (Sliders), an episode of the television series Sliders
Visual arts
- Guardian (sculpture), a statue in Abertillery, Wales, UK
- The Guardian (sculpture), a public artwork in Redwood City, California, USA
- Guardians, artworks by American artist Kris Neely
- Guardians of Traffic, a set of statues on the Hope Memorial Bridge in Cleveland, Ohio, USA
- Wächter (Anatol) (Guardian), several monumental outdoor sculpture by Anatol Herzfeld
Businesses and organizations
Financial institutions
Other businesses and organizations
- Guardian Angels, an international volunteer organization for unarmed crime prevention
- Guardian Industries, a manufacturer of glass, automotive and building products headquartered in Auburn Hills, Michigan
- Mannings, known as Guardian in Malaysia and Singapore, a health care retailer
Military
Military vehicles
Other military uses
Religion
- Custos (Franciscans) or Guardian, the term used in place of Religious Superior among Franciscans
- Guardian (Baháʼí Faith), a now defunct hereditary office of the Bahá'í Faith
- Guardian angel, assigned to protect and guide a particular person or group
- Guardian deity, a spirit who protects a particular place, person, culture or occupation
- Medusa (meaning "Guardian" or "Protectress"), one of the Gorgons of Greek mythology
Sports
Asia
United States
Technology
Other uses
- Guardian (fireboat), a fireboat operated in the San Francisco Bay since 1990 in reserve status
- Guardian of Scotland, the de facto head of state of Scotland during the interregnums of 1290–1292 and 1296–1306
- Guardian stones, standing stones at the corners of enclosures around a dolmen
- Guardian temperament, one of the four temperaments according to the Keirsey Temperament Sorter
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