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

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)

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 film directed by Satheesh Paul

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

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

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

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 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, 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

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