Guardian

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Guardian may refer to:

• Legal guardian, a person with the authority and duty to care for the interests of another

Guardian(s) or The Guardian(s) may also refer to:

Geography

• Guardian, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in Webster County, West Virginia
• Guardian Nunatak, a rock exposure near Mount Robert Scott in Antarctica
• Guardian Rock, an ice-free rock in Bigourdan Fjord, off Antarctica

People

• Don Guardian (born 1953), mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA
• GuardiaN, nickname for Ladislav Kovács (born 1991), Slovakian pro video gamer

Businesses and organizations

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

Books and publications

Film and TV

Games

• 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
• The Last Guardian, a 2016 video game for PlayStation 4
• The Guardian, an alien being in the Ultima series
• The Guardian, the main and player character of The Guardian Legend, a 1988 video game
• Guardians, a playable class in the MMORPG The Lord of the Rings Online
• Guardians, player characters in Destiny, a 2014 first-person shooter video game

Music

• Guardian (band), an American Christian hard rock/metal band
• Guardians (album), a 2009 album by American extreme metal band The Crimson Armada
• "Guardian" (song), a 2012 song by Alanis Morissette from her album Havoc and Bright Lights

Sports

• Galle Guardians, a Sri Lankan domestic T20 cricket team
• GuardiaN (born 1991), in-game name of Ladislav Kovács, a professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player

Military

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

Religion

• Custos (Franciscans) or Guardian, the term used in place of Religious Superior among Franciscans
• 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
• Guardian (Bahá'í Faith), a now defunct hereditary office of the Bahá'í Faith
• Medusa, one of the Gorgons of Greek mythology. Her name means Guardian, or Protectress

Other uses

• Guardian (database), a reporting system used by the FBI to track threats and other intelligence information
• Guardian (fireboat), a fireboat operated in the San Francisco Bay since 1990 in reserve status
• Guardian (polymer), a substrate used in the production of polymer banknotes
• Guardian (sculpture), a statue in Abertillery, Wales
• Galaxy (spacecraft), previously Guardian, a cancelled prototype space habitat
• Guardian telephone exchange, an underground telephone exchange
• Guardian temperament, one of the four temperaments according to the Keirsey Temperament Sorter
• Guardians, artworks by American artist Kris Neely
• The Guardian (sculpture), a 1995 public artwork by artist Ante Buljan in Redwood City, California, USA
• Guardian stones, standing stones at the corners of enclosures around a dolmen
• Guardian of Scotland, the de facto head of state of Scotland during the interregnums of 1290–1292 and 1296–1306
• Wonder Mountain's Guardian, an interactive dark ride roller coaster at Canada's Wonderland, Vaughan, Ontario, Canada

See also

• All pages beginning with Guardian
• All pages with a title containing Guardian
• The Guardian (disambiguation)
• Defender (disambiguation)
• Guard (disambiguation)
• Guardia (disambiguation)
• La Guardia (disambiguation)
• Guarda (disambiguation)
• The Guard (disambiguation)