• Dutch: bewaker , wachter
• Finnish: vartija, vahti, suojelija
• German: Wächter, Wache
• Greek: φύλακας
• Italian: guardiano, custode
• Kurdish:
• Russian: страж (stráž) , хранитель (χranít'el') , защитник (zaščítnik)
• Serbian: skrbnik , skrbkinja , hranitelj, zaštitnik, čuvar

• Dutch: voogd , voogdes
• Finnish: huoltaja, ((edunvalvoja]]
• German: Vormund , Erziehungsberechtigter , Erziehungsberechtigte
• Greek: κηδεμόνας
• Italian: tutore
• Russian: опекун (op'ekún) , куратор (kurátor) , попечитель (pop'ečít'el')
• Serbian: staratelj , staralac , hranitelj

Guardian may refer to:

• Legal guardian

Newspapers

In the United Kingdom

• 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

In Canada

• Brampton Guardian
• Charlottetown Guardian
• Etobicoke Guardian
• York Guardian

In the United States

• San Francisco Bay Guardian
• Guardian (US), a New York newspaper founded in 1948 as the National Guardian, renamed in 1967 and running until 1992

In other countries

• The Guardian (Belize)
• The Guardian (Nigeria)
• The newspaper of the Communist Party of Australia (revived)

Military

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

Film, television and theatre

• The Guardian (1990 film), a horror film directed by William Friedkin
• The Guardian (2006 film), a drama starring Kevin Costner and Ashton Kutcher
• The Guardian (TV series), a CBS series that first aired in 2001
• The Guardians (TV series), an ITV series that aired in 1971
• The Guardian (play), the Caroline era stage play by Philip Massinger
• Guardians (play), an Off-Broadway stage play by Peter Morris
• A group of characters in the TV series Challenge of the GoBots
• A character on the TV series The Tribe

Books and comics

• The Guardians (novel), a novel by John Christopher
• Guardian (DC comics)
• Guardian (Marvel Comics)
• Vindicator (comics), a Marvel comic book character who went by the codename Guardian
• A series of military science fiction novels by Richard Austin
• Guardian, a novel by Nicholas Sparks
• Guardians of the Universe, an fictional alien race in DC Comics

Card and computer games

• Guardians (card game)
• Guardian (Ultima), the final villain of the Ultima computer game series
• A unit in the computer game Battle Realms
• A Zerg unit in the computer game StarCraft
• Guardian (computer game), a 3D shoot 'em up for the Amiga CD32 games console

Other meanings

• Guardian (band)
• Shoghi Effendi, the appointed leader (Guardian) of the Bahá'í Faith from 1921 to 1957
• Philosopher king, a type of figure in Plato's Republic
• One of the four temperaments according to the Keirsey Temperament Sorter
• A custom operating system used by Tandem Computers

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