Warden

A warden is a person who has been entrusted with the oversight of something important to the community, such as a college, church, prison, wild game or firefighting. It may also refer to:

Occupations, ranks and roles

• Prison warden, the chief administrative official of a prison
• Warden (college), head of some university colleges and academic institutions in the United Kingdom and Australia
• Warden of the Mint, historical highest-ranking officer of the Royal Mint of the United Kingdom
• Warden, rank of seniority within a City of London livery company
• Churchwarden, a lay officer in an Anglican or Episcopal church
• Firefighting, a fire warden is a person designated to aid firefighters at a building or community level
• Game warden, an officer empowered to enforce the hunting and trapping laws of a jurisdiction
• Air Raid Precautions in the United Kingdom, precautions that helped protect British citizens during World War II air raids, enforced by ARP wardens
• Royal forest, the chief royal official of the royal forest was the warden
• Street warden, an officer aiding police at a community level
• Warden, an officer in a Knights of Columbus council
• Masonic lodge officers, ruling members in a Masonic Lodge, one position is that of warden
• County warden, the head of county governments in Ontario and Nova Scotia, similar to mayors in cities
• Resident assistant, may be referred to as a warden at some educational institutions
• Park ranger, also called a park warden or forest ranger, a person entrusted with protecting and preserving parklands
• Parking enforcement officer, also called a traffic warden or parking inspector, an officer who issues tickets for parking violations
• Sheltered housing officers, referred to formerly (and still by some) as "wardens"
• Lord Warden of the Marches, a historical office in Scotland and England
• Lord Warden of the Stannaries, a historical office in Cornwall

Places

• Warden (TTC), a subway station located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Warden Avenue, a major north-south road in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
• Warden, Free State, South Africa, a town in central South Africa in the Free State province
• Warden, Kent, England, a small holiday village in South East England, on the northeast coast of the Isle of Sheppey
• Old Warden, Bedfordshire, England, an East of England village and civil parish, just west of Biggleswade
• Warden, Northumberland, England, a North East England village on the River Tyne
• Warden, Washington, United States, a small city in Grant County in central Washington
• Warden, West Virginia, United States, an unincorporated community in Raleigh County in southern West Virginia
• Warden, Quebec, Canada, a village that is part of La Haute-Yamaska Regional County Municipality, in Montérégie administrative area
• Wardon Abbey, a Cistercian Abbey in Bedfordshire, England, near Old Warden, founded around 1135

People

• Allen F. Warden (1852–1927), American politician and newspaper editor
• Florence Warden (1857–1929), English actress and novelist
• Henry Douglas Warden, British resident of South Africa, founder of Bloemfontein
• Jack Warden (1920–2006), American character actor
• John A. Warden III (born 1943), colonel in the United States Air Force
• May Warden, actress best known for her role as Miss Sophie in Dinner for One

Other

• Churchwarden pipe, a tobacco pipe with a long stem, history dates to the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century
• Warden message, an important message from the United States State Department about safety or travel information for U.S. citizens abroad
• Warden pear, any one of a number of pear varieties that do not truly ripen and must be cooked to be edible
• Warden (software), a video game cheating prevention system used by Blizzard Entertainment

See also

• Block warden (disambiguation)
• Lake Warden (disambiguation)
• Lord Warden (disambiguation)
• Warden Hill (disambiguation)
• Worden (disambiguation)