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

Arts, entertainment, and media

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 role 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)

Guardians, enemies in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

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-language film directed by Satheesh Paul

Guardian (2024 film), a Tamil-language horror film directed by Sabari and Guru Saravanan

The Guardian (2024 film), a South Korean-Philippine action drama film directed by Jeong Jang-hwan

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