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

## Arts, entertainment, and media
### 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
### Music
#### 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

## Transport
### 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