# Leader (disambiguation)

A leader is one who influences or leads others.
Leader may also refer to:

## Places
### Municipalities

* Leader, Colorado, United States
* Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada

### Rivers

* Leader River, New Zealand

### Buildings

* Leader House, a building in Sheffield, England

## People

* Leader (surname)
* Gary Glitter (born 1944), a musician nicknamed "The Leader"
* Oswald Mosley (1896–1980), a British politician known to his followers as "The Leader"

## Art, entertainment, and media
### Films

* Leader (1964 film), a Hindi film starring Dilip Kumar
* Leader (2009 film), a Sinhalese film starring Ranjan Ramanayaka
* Leader (2010 film), a Telugu film starring Rana Daggubati
* Leader: Amie Bangladesh, a 2023 Bangladeshi Bengali film featuring Shakib Khan

### Literature

* The Leader, novel by Guy Walters
* "The Leader" (story), a satirical story by Radoje Domanović

### Music

* Leader (orchestra), a position within an orchestra
* Leader Records (UK), a folk music record label
* Leader Records (US), a subsidiary of Kapp Records
* The Leaders, a musical group
* "The Leader", a song by the Clash on the album Sandinista!
* "The Leader", a track by Johan Shevanesh from the 2014 Indian film Aal

### Newspapers
#### Current newspapers

* Leader Community Newspapers, a series of 33 local papers in metropolitan Melbourne, Australia
* Regina Leader-Post, formerly the Leader, in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
* Liverpool Leader, formerly the Leader, a newspaper published in Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia
* The Leader (Angaston), a weekly newspaper published in the Barossa Valley, South Australia
* The Leader (Corning), a daily newspaper published in Corning, New York, United States
* The Leader (Flower Mound), a community newspaper published in Flower Mound, Texas, United States
* The Leader (Fredonia), a newspaper published by the State University of New York at Fredonia
* The Leader (Houston), a newspaper published in Houston, Texas
* The Leader (Utah), a newspaper published by Pioneer Newspapers in Tremonton, Utah, United States
* The Leader (Welsh newspaper), a daily paper in Wales
* The Leader, a nickname for the New Hampshire Union Leader newspaper in New Hampshire, United States
* The Leader, common name for the St George and Sutherland Shire Leader, in Southern Sydney, Australia
* Limerick Leader, in Limerick, Ireland
* The Leinster Leader, a local newspaper in Co. Kildare, Ireland

#### Former newspapers

* Labour Leader, a British newspaper (1888–1986)
* Lincoln County Leader (1893–1987), a weekly newspaper in Oregon, U.S.
* The Leader (Allahabad newspaper), published 1909–1967
* The Leader (English newspaper), a weekly newspaper (1850–1860) founded by G. H. Lewes
* The Leader (Welsh newspaper), a local daily newspaper in Chester, England, published 1973-2017 (also a still-ongoing website)
* The Leader (Irish newspaper), a defunct Irish newspaper founded in 1900 by D. P. Moran
* The Leader (Melbourne), a weekly newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, companion to The Age, published from 1862 to 1918
* The Leader (Orange, NSW), a defunct Australian newspaper

### Other arts, entertainment, and media

* Leader (character), a fictional character from Marvel Comics
* Film leader, a length of film that aids in threading a filmstrip
* Leading article, a piece of writing intended to promote an opinion, also called an editorial
* The Leader (web series), a Chinese web series about Karl Marx

## Initiatives and organizations

* Leader (political party), a minor political party in Israel
* LEADER programme, a European Union initiative for rural development

## Other uses

* Front-runner, or leader
* Leader (dance partner)
* Leader (spark), part of an electrical spark
* Leader (typography), a row of characters (usu. dots or dashes) to connect items across a page (as in a table of contents)
* River Leader, river in Scotland
* Leader, in angling, the section of fishing line between the main line and the hook
* Leader, in architecture, a synonym for downspout
* Leader, in distributed computing, the process selected after a leader election
* Leader, an appliance sub-brand of Haier
* SR Leader class, an experimental British steam locomotive
* In engineering drawing, a leader or leader line is a thin line connecting a label or dimension with the part to which it applies