Protector

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
• 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

See also

• El Protector (disambiguation)
• HMCS Protecteur (AOR 509), a Canadian replenishment oiler, 1969 to present
• Defender (disambiguation)