Protector
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Protector may refer to:
- Protector (title), a title or part of various historical titles of heads of state and others in authority, especially:
- Lord Protector, two high positions in the history of the British political system
- a Regent for an English or British King
- during The Protectorate, the period 1653–1659, the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland was governed by a Lord Protector
- Lord Protector, two high positions in the history of the British political system
- Protector (trust), in trust law, a third party who monitors and controls the trustees
- Protector (role variant), in personality testing, a role variant in the Keirsey Temperament Sorter
Books and comics
- Protector (novel), a 1973 science fiction novel by American writer Larry Niven
- Pak Protector, a form of alien life in this and other novels by Niven
- Protector (C. J. Cherryh novel), a 2013 novel set in C. J. Cherryh's Foreigner universe
- Protector (DC Comics), a superhero briefly a member of the New Teen Titans
- Protector (Marvel Comics), a character in the Marvel Universe
- Protectors, a Malibu Comics group and title
- Protector, a Marvel Comics character who appeared in Tales to Astonish
- The Protector (novel), a 1979 novel by Malcolm Braly
- The Protector, a 2003 novel by David Morrell
Film and television
- The Protectors (1975 film), a Hong Kong film in the Celestial's Shaw Brothers Film Library
- The Protector (1985 film), an action film starring Jackie Chan
- The Protector (2005 film) (Tom-Yum-Goong), a Thai martial arts film starring Tony Jaa
- Protector (2009 film), a Czech film directed by Marek Najbrt
- The Protectors, a 1972-1973 British television series starring Robert Vaughn
- The Protectors (Danish TV series), a 2009 crime series
- The Protector (TV series), a 2011 police drama TV series starring Ally Walker
- "The Protector", an episode of the British sitcom Take a Letter, Mr. Jones
Gaming
- Protector (arcade game), a prototype-only arcade video game by Gottlieb
- Protector (video game), a 1981 game for the Atari 8-bit family released by Synapse Software
- Protector (Atari game), a 1999 video game for the Atari Jaguar
Military
- Protector USV, an Israeli unmanned surface vehicle
- Protector (RWS), a remotely controlled weapons station
- Protector (submarine), a 1901 submarine built by American naval engineer Simon Lake
- HMAS Protector, one of two ships operated by the Royal Australian Navy
- HMCS Protector, a Canadian naval base at Sydney, Nova Scotia, 1943-1965
- HMS Protector, one of six ships operated by the British Royal Navy
- Protector RPAS, a medium-altitude, long-endurance (MALE) UAV in development for the Royal Air Force.
Other uses
- Protector, Richard Lederer, a member of the black metal band Summoning
- Protector (fireboat), a fireboat commissioned in 2016 in Long Beach, California
See also
- El Protector (disambiguation)
- HMCS Protecteur (AOR 509), a Canadian replenishment oiler, 1969 to present
- Defender (disambiguation)
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