# Guardian

Guardian usually refers to:
* Legal guardian, a person with the authority and duty to care for the interests of another
* The Guardian, a British daily newspaper
(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 Colossus: The Forbin Project (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)
* Guardians, enemies in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

### Films

* Guardian, a 2001 film directed by John Terlesky
* The Guardian (1917 film), a silent film starring Montagu Love and June Elvidge
* The Guardian (1990 film), a horror film directed by William Friedkin
* The Guardian, a 1997 television film starring Stephanie Niznik
* The Guardian (2006 film), a drama starring Kevin Costner and Ashton Kutcher
* Guardians (2012 film), a German action film
* Guardians (2017 film), a Russian superhero film
* The Guardians (2017 film), a French film directed by Xavier Beauvois
* Guardian (2021 film), a Malayalam-language film directed by Satheesh Paul
* Guardian (2024 film), a Tamil-language horror film directed by Sabari and Guru Saravanan
* The Guardian (2024 film), a South Korean-Philippine action drama film directed by Jeong Jang-hwan

### Games

* Guardian (1986 video game), a 1986 beat 'em up for arcades
* Guardians (card game), a collectible card game published in 1995/96
* Guardian (video game), a 1994 3D shoot 'em up for the Amiga CD32 games console
* Guardians (video game), a 1995 coin-operated arcade game

### Literature

* Guardians (play), a 2005 off-Broadway stage play by Peter Morris
* The Guardian (novel), a 2003 novel by Nicholas Sparks
* The Guardian (play), a 1633 Caroline era stage play by Philip Massinger, reworked 1642 by A. Cowley
* The Guardians (Christopher novel), a 1970 novel by John Christopher
* The Guardians (Abbey novel), a 1982 novel by Lynn Abbe
* The Guardians (Grisham novel), a 2019 legal thriller novel by John Grisham
* The Guardians, a series of military science fiction novels by Richard Austin
* The Guardians, a novel by Ana Castillo

### Music

* Guardian (band), an American Christian hard rock/metal band
* Guardians (The Crimson Armada album), 2009
* Guardians (August Burns Red album), 2020
* "Guardian" (song), a 2012 song by Alanis Morissette from her album Havoc and Bright Lights
* "Guardian", a song by Fates Warning from their 1986 album Awaken the Guardian
* Guardians Drum and Bugle Corps, a drum and bugle corp from Dallas, Texas

### News and periodicals
#### Australia

* Daily Guardian (Sydney), a former newspaper in Sydney, Australia
* The Guardian, a bulletin of the Communist Party of Australia (1971)
* One of various newspapers in New South Wales

#### Canada

* Brampton Guardian, a free, weekly community newspaper in Ontario
* Etobicoke Guardian, a weekly suburban newspaper in Toronto
* The Guardian (Charlottetown), a daily newspaper on Prince Edward Island

#### United Kingdom

* Guardian Media Group, owners of The Guardian , The Observer and The Guardian Weekly
** The Guardian, formerly Manchester Guardian
** theGuardian.com, online resource of The Guardian
* 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

* Guardian (web series), a Chinese web drama released in 2018
* Guardians Evolution, a 2014 claymation series on APTN Kids
* The Guardian (TV series), a CBS series that first aired in 2001 starring Simon Baker
* The Guardians (South Korean TV series), South Korea
* Guardian: The Lonely and Great God, South Korea
* The Guardians (British TV series), a 1971 UK television drama 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

* Guardian Bank, Kenya
* Guardian Building Society, United Kingdom
* Guardian Capital Group, a publicly traded asset management company
* The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, a mutual life insurance company domiciled in New York

### 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

* Boeing AH-64E Apache Guardian, a variant of the AH-64 Apache
* Dassault HU-25 Guardian, a modified Falcon 20 business jet formerly used by the U.S. Coast Guard
* Grumman AF Guardian, a warplane of the U.S. Navy
* HMS Guardian, three ships of the Royal Navy
* USS Guardian, three ships of the U.S. Navy

### Other military uses

* Northrop Grumman Guardian, an anti-missile system for commercial airliners
* Space professionals of the United States Space Force
* Weishi Rockets (Chinese: 卫士; lit. 'Guardian'), a family of Chinese multiple rocket launcher systems

## 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

* Fubon Guardians, a team in the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) in Taiwan
* Galle Guardians, a provincial T20 cricket team in Sri Lanka

### United States

* Cleveland Guardians, a team in Major League Baseball (MLB) known as the Cleveland Indians from 1915 through 2021
* Dallas Beer Guardians, an independent supporters group of FC Dallas of Major League Soccer (MLS)
* Golden Guardians, an esports organization
* Orlando Guardians, an American-football team in the XFL, formerly the New York Guardians
* San Diego Guardians, a team in The Basketball League (TBL)

## Technology

* Guardian (database), an intel reporting system the FBI use to track threats
* Guardian (polymer), a substrate used in the production of polymer banknotes
* Galaxy (spacecraft), previously Guardian, a cancelled prototype space habitat

## 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