Leader (disambiguation)

A leader is one who influences or leads others.

Leader may also refer to:

Municipalities

 * Leader, Colorado, United States
 * Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada

Rivers

 * Leader River, New Zealand

Buildings

 * Leader House, a building in Sheffield, England

People

 * Leader (surname)
 * Gary Glitter (born 1944), a musician nicknamed "The Leader"
 * Oswald Mosley (1896–1980), a British politician known to his followers as "The Leader"

Films

 * Leader (1964 film), a Hindi film starring Dilip Kumar
 * Leader (2009 film), a Sinhalese film starring Ranjan Ramanayaka
 * Leader (2010 film), a Telugu film starring Rana Daggubati
 * Leader: Amie Bangladesh, a 2023 Bangladeshi Bengali film featuring Shakib Khan

Literature

 * The Leader, novel by Guy Walters
 * "The Leader" (story), a satirical story by Radoje Domanović

Music

 * Leader (orchestra), a position within an orchestra
 * Leader Records (UK), a folk music record label
 * Leader Records (US), a subsidiary of Kapp Records
 * The Leaders, a musical group
 * "The Leader", a song by the Clash on the album Sandinista!

Current newspapers

 * Leader Community Newspapers, a series of 33 local papers in metropolitan Melbourne, Australia
 * Regina Leader-Post, formerly the Leader, in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
 * Liverpool Leader, formerly the Leader, a newspaper published in Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia
 * The Leader (Angaston), a weekly newspaper published in the Barossa Valley, South Australia
 * The Leader (Corning), a daily newspaper published in Corning, New York, United States
 * The Leader (Flower Mound), a community newspaper published in Flower Mound, Texas, United States
 * The Leader (Fredonia), a newspaper published by the State University of New York at Fredonia
 * The Leader (Houston), a newspaper published in Houston, Texas
 * The Leader (Utah), a newspaper published by Pioneer Newspapers in Tremonton, Utah, United States
 * The Leader (Welsh newspaper), a daily paper in Wales
 * The Leader, a nickname for the New Hampshire Union Leader newspaper in New Hampshire, United States
 * The Leader, common name for the St George and Sutherland Shire Leader, in Southern Sydney, Australia
 * Limerick Leader, in Limerick, Ireland
 * The Leinster Leader, a local newspaper in Co. Kildare, Ireland

Former newspapers

 * Labour Leader, a British newspaper (1888–1986)
 * Lincoln County Leader (1893–1987), a weekly newspaper in Oregon, U.S.
 * The Leader (Allahabad newspaper), published 1909–1967
 * The Leader (English newspaper), a weekly newspaper (1850–1860) founded by G. H. Lewes
 * The Leader (Welsh newspaper), a local daily newspaper in Chester, England, published 1973-2017 (also a still-ongoing website)
 * The Leader (Irish newspaper), a defunct Irish newspaper founded in 1900 by D. P. Moran
 * The Leader (Melbourne), a weekly newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, companion to The Age, published from 1862 to 1918
 * The Leader (Orange, NSW), a defunct Australian newspaper

Other arts, entertainment, and media

 * Leader (character), a fictional character from Marvel Comics
 * Film leader, a length of film that aids in threading a filmstrip
 * Leading article, a piece of writing intended to promote an opinion, also called an editorial
 * The Leader (web series), a Chinese web series about Karl Marx

Initiatives and organizations

 * Leader (political party), a minor political party in Israel
 * LEADER programme, a European Union initiative for rural development

Other uses

 * Front-runner, or leader
 * Leader (dance partner)
 * Leader (spark), part of an electrical spark
 * Leader (typography), a row of characters (usu. dots or dashes) to connect items across a page (as in a table of contents)
 * River Leader, river in Scotland
 * Leader, in angling, the section of fishing line between the main line and the hook
 * Leader, in architecture, a synonym for downspout
 * Leader, in distributed computing, the process selected after a leader election
 * Leader, an appliance sub-brand of Haier
 * SR Leader class, an experimental British steam locomotive
 * In engineering drawing, a leader or leader line is a thin line connecting a label or dimension with the part to which it applies