Ranger
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In general, a ranger is a keeper, guardian, or soldier that ranges over a region to protect the area or enforce law. The mystique of the ranger has been harnessed for military, sports and governmental uses as well as appearing in fiction:
Government
Military
- US Army Rangers
- British Rangers
- Canadian Rangers
- The Connaught Rangers
- Royal Irish Rangers
- Irish Army Rangers
- Pakistan Rangers
- The Queen's York Rangers (1st American Regiment) (RCAC)
- The Rocky Mountain Rangers
Sport(s)
- Rangers F.C. - Scottish football (soccer) club
- Texas Rangers - Major League Baseball team
- New York Rangers - American National Hockey League team
- Queens Park Rangers (QPR) - Football League football (soccer) club
- Berwick Rangers - English-based Scottish Football League football (soccer) club
Fiction
- Aragorn - a Ranger of the North from J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
- Lone Ranger - TV series
- Walker, Texas Ranger
- Power Rangers
- Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers
- Ranger, a character class for many role-playing games
Science
- The Ranger program of NASA unmanned space missions to the Moon.