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Guardian may refer to:

• Legal guardian

Guardian or The Guardian may also refer to:

In businesses and organizations [edit]

• Guardian Building Society, a former UK building society, now merged into the Cheltenham & Gloucester
• Guardian Capital Group, a publicly traded asset management
• Guardian Industries, a manufacturer of glass, automotive and building products
• Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, a mutual life insurance company domiciled in New York
• Guardian, the name in Malaysia and Singapore for Mannings, a health care retailer

In media and entertainment [edit]

In books and comics [edit]

• Guardian (comics), various comics
• The Guardian (novel), a novel by Nicholas Sparks
• The Guardians (novel), a 1970 novel by John Christopher
• The Guardians, a novel by Ana Castillo
• Guardians of the Universe, a fictional alien race in DC Comics
• Philosopher kings, also called Guardians, a type of figure in Plato's Republic
• The Guardians, a series of military science fiction novels by Richard Austin
• Guardian, a supercomputer in the book Colossus

Card, computer, and video games [edit]

• Guardian (video game), a 3D shoot 'em up for the Amiga CD32 games console
• Guardians (card game)
• The Last Guardian, a video game for PlayStation 3
• The Guardian, an alien being in the Ultima series
• The main and player character of The Guardian Legend

In film [edit]

• The Guardian (1984 film), a thriller film starring Martin Sheen, Louis Gossett Jr., and Arthur Hill
• The Guardian (1990 film), a horror film directed by William Friedkin
• The Guardian (2006 film), a drama starring Kevin Costner and Ashton Kutcher
• The Guardians (2010 film), a comedy film starring Ron Palillo
• Guardian, a supercomputer in the film Colossus: The Forbin Project

In music [edit]

• Guardian (band)
• "Guardian" (song), a 2012 song by Alanis Morissette from her upcoming album Havoc and Bright Lights

Newspapers [edit]

In Canada [edit]

• The Guardian (Charlottetown)
• The Brampton Guardian
• Etobicoke Guardian
• York Guardian

In the United Kingdom [edit]

• The Guardian, founded in 1821 as the Manchester Guardian and renamed in 1959
• The Guardian (1713), founded in 1713 and running only briefly
• The Guardian (Anglican newspaper), an Anglican newspaper founded in 1846 and running until 1951
• Cornish Guardian, a Cornish local weekly newspaper
• Lancaster Guardian, a broadsheet of Lancaster, Lancashire
• Richmond Guardian and other Guardian newspaper titles published in south west London and in Surrey by Newsquest (London) Ltd

In the United States [edit]

• Guardian (US), a New York newspaper founded in 1948 as the National Guardian, renamed in 1967 and running until 1992
• San Francisco Bay Guardian
• Boston Guardian (published 1901-1950)
• UCSD Guardian, the official newspaper for the University of California, San Diego

In other countries [edit]

• The Guardian (Belize)
• The Guardian (Nigeria)
• The Guardian, The Worker's Weekly, a newspaper published by the Communist Party of Australia
• The Sunday Guardian (India), a weekly newspaper
• Trinidad and Tobago Guardian

In television [edit]

• The Guardian (TV series), a CBS series that first aired in 2001 starring Simon Baker
• The Guardians (TV series), a 1971 UK television drama series on ITV
• A group of characters in the TV series Challenge of the GoBots
• The Guardian, a character in the television series The Tribe

Plays [edit]

• Guardians (play), an off-Broadway stage play by Peter Morris
• The Guardian (play), the Caroline era stage play by Philip Massinger

In the military [edit]

• HMS Guardian, three ships of the Royal Navy
• USS Guardian, three ships of the U.S. Navy
• AF Guardian, a warplane of the US Navy
• Northrop Grumman Guardian, an anti-missile system for commercial airliners

In religion [edit]

• Custos (Franciscans), the term used in place of Religious Superior among Franciscans
• Shoghi Effendi, the appointed leader (Guardian) of the Bahá'í Faith from 1921 to 1957

Other uses [edit]

• Galaxy (spacecraft), previously Guardian, a cancelled prototype space habitat
• The Guardian Exchange, an underground telephone exchange
• Guardian temperament, one of the four temperaments according to the Keirsey Temperament Sorter

See also [edit]

• All pages beginning with "Guardian"
• All pages with titles containing "Guardian"
• Guard (disambiguation)
• Guardia (disambiguation)
• La Guardia (disambiguation)
• Guarda (disambiguation)
• The Guard (disambiguation)

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