__NOTOC__ In general, a ranger is a keeper, guardian, or soldier who ranges over a region to protect the area or enforce the law. The mystique of the ranger has been harnessed for military, sports and governmental uses as well as appearing in fiction:

Conservation

• Park ranger

Fiction

• Ranger (Transformers) is an Autobot character from the Transformers fictional series.
• Ranger (Middle-earth), from J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional universe, Middle-earth
• The Lone Ranger
• Walker, Texas Ranger
• Power Rangers
• Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers
• Ranger (character class), a character class for many role-playing games
• Ranger (Babylon 5), a military organisation in the television series Babylon 5
• Ranger magazine, a British magazine for children
• Airborne Ranger, a video game
• Ranger (board game), (board game)
• Pokemon Ranger, an upcoming video game for the Nintendo DS

Geography

• Ranger, Georgia; the zip code is 30734.
• Ranger, Texas; the zip code is 76470.
• Ranger, West Virginia; the zip code is 25557.

Information Technology

• Ranger (suite of software products), is a suite of software products designed for the education sector.

Law enforcement

• Texas Ranger Division
• Arizona Rangers
• Council ranger

Military

• British Army
  • Butler's Rangers
  • The Connaught Rangers
  • Rogers' Rangers
  • Royal Irish Rangers
• Canadian Forces
  • Canadian Rangers
  • The Queen's York Rangers (1st American Regiment) (RCAC)
  • The Rocky Mountain Rangers
• Irish Army Rangers
• Pakistan Rangers
• CTOE also known as Portuguese "Rangers" (Centro de Tropas de Operações Especiais)
• Singaporean Rangers
• U.S. Army Rangers
  • Ranger Creed
  • Ranger School
  • 1st Ranger Battalion
• USS Ranger

Other

• Ranger (character class) used in Fantasy role-playing games, largely derived from Tolkien's rangers.
• Black Rock Ranger, a volunteer mediator at Burning Man events
• Ranger program was a series of unmanned NASA moon probes in the 1960s - Ranger 1, Ranger 2, Ranger 3, Ranger 4, Ranger 5, Ranger 6, Ranger 7, Ranger 8, Ranger 9
• Ford Ranger light truck
• Ranger rough terrain forklift truck , developed in Germany from Rainer Becker and Alfred Reck, today made in Austria, Perg
• RUAG Ranger is a tactical UAV from RUAG Aerospace in Switzerland
• Professor Richard Cureton a well known indoor rowing specialist

Sports

• Rangers F.C. - Scottish Premier League football club from Glasgow
• Texas Rangers - Major League Baseball team
• New York Rangers - American National Hockey League team
• Queens Park Rangers F.C. (QPR) - Football League football club
• Berwick Rangers F.C. - English-based Scottish Football League football club
• FC Rànger's - Andorran football club
• Ranger (yacht), the famous J-class yacht which defended the America's Cup in 1937
• Sembawang Rangers Football Club A Singapore Football Club

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