Cardinal

**Cardinal** or **The Cardinal** may refer to:

## Christianity

- Cardinal (Catholicism), a senior official of the Catholic Church
- Cardinal (Church of England), two members of the College of Minor Canons of St. Paul's Cathedral

## Navigation

- Cardinal direction, one of the four primary directions: north, south, east, and west
- Cardinal mark, a sea mark used in navigation

## Mathematics

- Cardinal number
    - Large cardinal

## Animals

- Cardinal (bird) or Cardinalidae, a family of North and South American birds
    - _Cardinalis_, genus of cardinal in the family Cardinalidae
    - _Cardinalis cardinalis_, or Northern Cardinal, the common cardinal of eastern North America
- _Argynnis pandora_, a species of butterfly
- Cardinal tetra, a freshwater fish
- _Paroaria_, a South American genus of birds

## Places

- Cardinal, Manitoba, Canada
- Cardinal, Ontario, Canada
- Cardinal High School (Middlefield, Ohio), a public high school in Middlefield, Ohio, Geauga County, United States
- Cardinal Power Plant, a power plant in Jefferson County, Ohio
- Cardinal, Virginia, United States
- C/2008 T2 (Cardinal), a comet

### Movies

- _Cardinal_ (movie), a 2001 American movie directed by Michael Harring
- _Cardinals_ (movie), a 2017 Canadian movie
- _The Cardinal_ (1936 movie), a British historical drama
- _The Cardinal_, a 1963 American movie

### Games

- Cardinal (chess), a fairy chess piece, also known as the archbishop
- Cardinal, a participant in the army drinking game Cardinal Puff

#### Groups

- The Cardinals (rock band), a group formed in 2003
- The Cardinals, a 1950s R&B group

#### Albums

- _Cardinal_ (Cardinal album), a 1994 album by indie pop duo Cardinal
- _Cardinal_ (Pinegrove album), 2016

### Television

- _Cardinal_ (TV series), a 2017 Canadian television series
- "Cardinal" (_The Americans_), the second episode of the second season of the television series _The Americans_

### Other arts, entertainment, and media

- Cardinal (comics), a supervillain appearing in Marvel Comics
- _The Cardinal_ (play), a 1641 Caroline era tragedy by James Shirley

## Plants

- Cardinal (grape), a table grape first produced in California in 1939
- _Lobelia cardinalis_, also known as "cardinal flower"

## Businesses

- Cardinal Brewery, a brewery founded in 1788 by François Piller, in Fribourg, Switzerland
- Cardinal Health, a health care services company

## Sports

- Arizona Cardinals, an American professional football team
- Assindia Cardinals, an American football club from Essen, Germany
- Ball State Cardinals, the athletic teams of Ball State University
- Cardenales de Lara, a Venezuelan baseball team
- Catholic University Cardinals, the athletic teams of the Catholic University of America
- Front Royal Cardinals, an American baseball team
- Lamar Cardinals, the athletic teams of Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, USA
- Louisville Cardinals, the athletic teams of University of Louisville
- Mapúa Cardinals, the athletic teams of Mapúa Institute of Technology
- North Central Cardinals, the athletic teams of North Central College
- St. John Fisher Cardinals, the athletic teams of St. John Fisher College in Rochester, NY
- St. Louis Cardinals, an American professional baseball team
- Stanford Cardinal, the athletic teams of Stanford University
- Wesleyan Cardinals, the athletic teams of Wesleyan University
- West Perth Football Club, an Australian rules football club in Western Australia
- Woking F.C., an English football team

### Aircraft

- Cessna 177 Cardinal, a single engine aircraft
- St. Louis Cardinal C-2-110, a light aircraft built in 1928

### Trains

- _Cardinal_ (train)
- _The Cardinal_ (railcar)

## Linguistics

- Cardinal number (linguistics), a part of speech for expressing numbers by name
- Cardinal vowel, a concept in phonetics

## Other uses

- Cardinal (color), a vivid red
- Cardinal (name), a surname
- Cardinal, a Ruby programming language implementation using for the Parrot virtual machine