Cardinal or The Cardinal may refer to:

Animals

* Cardinal (bird) or Cardinalidae, a family of North and South American birds **''

Cardinalis ''Cardinalis'' is a genus of cardinal in the family Cardinalidae. There are three species ranging across the Great Lakes region to northern South America. Description They are birds between 19 and 22 cm in length. Its most distinctive char ...

'', genus of cardinal in the family Cardinalidae **''

Cardinalis cardinalis The northern cardinal (''Cardinalis cardinalis'') is a bird in the genus ''Cardinalis''; it is also known colloquially as the redbird, common cardinal, red cardinal, or just cardinal (which was its name prior to 1985). It can be found in southea ...

'', or northern cardinal, the common cardinal of eastern North America * ''

Argynnis pandora ''Argynnis pandora'', the cardinal, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is common throughout southern Europe and is also found in northern Africa and the Middle east and then east across the Palearctic to northwestern India. Descript ...

'', a species of butterfly *

Cardinal tetra The cardinal tetra (''Paracheirodon axelrodi'') is a freshwater fish of the family (biology), family Characidae of order (biology), order Characiformes. It is native to the upper Orinoco and Rio Negro (Amazon), Negro Rivers in South America. Gro ...

, a freshwater fish * ''

Paroaria ''Paroaria'', the red-headed cardinals or cardinal-tanagers (as they are not close to the Cardinalidae), are a genus of tanagers. They were until recently placed in the family (biology), family Emberizidae. Five or six species are placed here. ...

'', a South American genus of birds, called red-headed cardinals or cardinal-tanagers

Businesses

* Cardinal Brewery, a brewery founded in 1788 by François Piller, located in Fribourg, Switzerland *

Cardinal Health Cardinal Health, Inc. is an American multinational health care services company, and the 14th highest revenue generating company in the United States. Its headquarters are in Dublin, Ohio and Dublin, Ireland (EMEA). The company specializes in ...

, a health care services company

Christianity

* Cardinal (Catholic Church), a senior official of the Catholic Church **Member of the

College of Cardinals The College of Cardinals, or more formally the Sacred College of Cardinals, is the body of all cardinals of the Catholic Church. its current membership is , of whom are eligible to vote in a conclave to elect a new pope. Cardinals are app ...

Cardinal (Church of England) __NOTOC__ The Minor Canons of St Paul's Cathedral, London, whose origins predate the Norman conquest of England, unusually were independent of the senior canons and, as priests, of higher status than the lay vicars choral. Medieval Hereford furnis ...

, either of two members of the College of Minor Canons of St. Paul's Cathedral

Entertainment

Films

* ''Cardinals'' (film), a 2017 Canadian film * ''The Cardinal'' (1936 film), a British historical drama * ''

The Cardinal ''The Cardinal'' is a 1963 American drama film produced independently, directed by Otto Preminger and distributed by Columbia Pictures. The screenplay was written by Robert Dozier, based on the novel of the same name (1950) by Henry Morton Robi ...

'', a 1963 American film

Games

* Cardinal (chess), a fairy chess piece, also known as the archbishop * Cardinal, a participant in the army drinking game Cardinal Puff

Music

Groups

Cardinal (band) Cardinal is an American indie pop duo founded by musicians Richard Davies and Eric Matthews. The duo was formed in 1992 following Davies' relocation from Australia to the United States, where he met Matthews while both were living in Boston, Mas ...

, indie pop duo formed in 1992 *

The Cardinals (rock band) The Cardinals were an American R&B group of the 1950s. Sharing a legacy with the Orioles, The Cardinals are remembered as one of the best R&B ballad acts to come out of Baltimore. Origins The Cardinals’ career began in 1946 (one year before ...

, a group formed in 2003 *

The Cardinals The Cardinals were an American R&B group of the 1950s. Sharing a legacy with the Orioles, The Cardinals are remembered as one of the best R&B ballad acts to come out of Baltimore. Origins The Cardinals’ career began in 1946 (one year before ...

, a 1950s R&B group

Albums

* ''Cardinal'' (Cardinal album), 1994 * ''Cardinal'' (Pinegrove album), 2016

Television

* ''Cardinal'' (TV series), a 2017 Canadian television series * "Cardinal" (''The Americans''), the second episode of the second season of the television series ''The Americans''

Other arts, entertainment, and media

Cardinal (comics) Cardinal (also known as Harrier) is a fictional character, a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is African American. Publication history Cardinal first appeared in ''New Warriors'' #28 and was created ...

, a supervillain appearing in Marvel Comics * ''The Cardinal'' (play), a 1641 Caroline era tragedy by James Shirley * The Cardinal System, a system appearing in the ''

Sword Art Online is a Japanese light novel series written by Reki Kawahara and illustrated by abec. The series takes place in the then-near future and focuses on protagonists Kazuto "Kirito" Kirigaya and Asuna Yuuki as they play through various vir ...

'' series * Cardinal, a stormtrooper officer featured in '' Star Wars: Phasma'', a novel by Delilah S. Dawson

Linguistics

Cardinal numeral In linguistics, and more precisely in traditional grammar, a cardinal numeral (or cardinal number word) is a part of speech used to count. Examples in English are the words ''one'', ''two'', ''three'', and the compounds ''three hundred ndfort ...

, a part of speech for expressing numbers by name *

Cardinal vowel Cardinal vowels are a set of reference vowels used by phoneticians in describing the sounds of languages. They are classified depending on the position of the tongue relative to the roof of the mouth, how far forward or back is the highest po ...

, a concept in phonetics

Mathematics

Cardinal number In mathematics, cardinal numbers, or cardinals for short, are a generalization of the natural numbers used to measure the cardinality (size) of sets. The cardinality of a finite set is a natural number: the number of elements in the set. T ...

** Large cardinal

Navigation

* Cardinal direction, one of the four primary directions: north, south, east, and west *

Cardinal mark Cardinal or The Cardinal may refer to: Animals * Cardinal (bird) or Cardinalidae, a family of North and South American birds **''Cardinalis'', genus of cardinal in the family Cardinalidae **'' Cardinalis cardinalis'', or northern cardinal, th ...

, a sea mark used in navigation

Places

* Cardinal, Manitoba, Canada * Cardinal, Ontario, Canada *

Cardinal High School (Middlefield, Ohio) Cardinal High School is a public high school in Middlefield, Ohio, United States. Students come from Middlefield village, Middlefield township, and the townships of Parkman and Huntsburg. Athletics Ohio High School Athletic Association State ...

, a public high school in Middlefield, Ohio, Geauga County, United States * Cardinal Mountain, a summit in California *

Cardinal Power Plant Cardinal Power Plant is a 1.8-gigawatt (1,800 MW) coal power plant located south of Brilliant, Ohio in Jefferson County, Ohio. The power plant has three units. Cardinal is co-owned with Unit 1 owned by American Electric Power's (AEP) subsidiary, A ...

, a power plant in Jefferson County, Ohio * Cardinal, Virginia, United States * C/2008 T2 (Cardinal), a comet

Plants

Cardinal (grape) Cardinal is a table grape variety first produced in California in 1939. The grape is a cross of the :de:Königin der Weingärten, Königin der Weingärten and Ribier table grapes, according to latest research. In the United States, Bulgaria, No ...

, a table grape first produced in California in 1939 * ''

Lobelia cardinalis ''Lobelia cardinalis'', the cardinal flower ( syn. ''L. fulgens''), is a species of flowering plant in the bellflower family Campanulaceae native to the Americas, from southeastern Canada south through the eastern and southwestern United States ...

'', also known as "cardinal flower"

Sports

* Arizona Cardinals, an American professional football team *

Assindia Cardinals The Assindia Cardinals are an American football team from Essen, Germany. Assindia is the Latin name for Essen. As its greatest success, the club has finished in third place in the northern division of the '' American Football Bundesliga'' in 1 ...

, an American football club from Essen, Germany *

Ball State Cardinals The Ball State Cardinals are the athletic teams that represent Ball State University, located in Muncie, Indiana. The Cardinals are part of the NCAA Division I Mid-American Conference. Charlie Cardinal is the team mascot. The Ball State Uni ...

, the athletic teams of Ball State University *

Cardenales de Lara The Cardenales de Lara ( en, Lara Cardinals) is a baseball team in the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League. Founded in 1942 and based in Barquisimeto, the ''Cardenales'' have won six domestic titles, including back-to-back in 1998 and 1999, a ...

, a Venezuelan baseball team *

Catholic University Cardinals The Catholic University of America's intercollegiate sports teams are called the ''Cardinals'' (after the bird northern cardinal), and they compete in the NCAA's Division III. They are members of the Landmark Conference, the New England Women's a ...

, the athletic teams of the Catholic University of America *

Front Royal Cardinals The Front Royal Cardinals are a collegiate summer baseball team in Front Royal, Virginia, USA, playing in the northern division of the Valley Baseball League. They play their home games at Bing Crosby Stadium, which is located within the Warren ...

, an American baseball team *

Incarnate Word Cardinals The Incarnate Word Cardinals, also known as UIW Cardinals, are composed of 23 teams representing the University of the Incarnate Word in intercollegiate athletics, including men and women's basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, swimming & div ...

, the athletic teams of the University of the Incarnate Word *

Lamar Cardinals The Lamar Cardinals and Lady Cardinals (variously Cardinals or Cards) refers to the college athletics teams of Lamar University, in Beaumont, Texas. The Cardinals and Lady Cardinals teams compete in seventeen NCAA Division I sports as a member o ...

, the athletic teams of Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, USA *

Louisville Cardinals The Louisville Cardinals (also known as the Cards) are the NCAA athletic teams representing the University of Louisville. The Cardinals teams play in the Atlantic Coast Conference, beginning in the 2014 season. While playing in the Big East Co ...

, the athletic teams of University of Louisville *

Mapúa Cardinals The Mapúa Cardinals are the varsity sports teams of Mapúa University that play in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (Philippines). The Mapúa Cardinals holds the NCAA record for the most General Championships in the seniors' divi ...

, the athletic teams of Mapúa Institute of Technology *

North Central Cardinals North Central College is a private college in Naperville, Illinois. It is affiliated with the United Methodist Church and has nearly 70 areas of study in undergraduate majors, minors, and programs through 19 academic departments organized in thre ...

, the athletic teams of North Central College * St. John Fisher Cardinals, the athletic teams of St. John Fisher College in Rochester, NY *

St. Louis Cardinals The St. Louis Cardinals are an American professional baseball team based in St. Louis. The Cardinals compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) Central division. Since the 2006 season, the Cardinals ha ...

, an American professional baseball team * Stanford Cardinal, the athletic teams of Stanford University; named for the color but not the bird *

Wesleyan Cardinals Wesleyan University ( ) is a private liberal arts university in Middletown, Connecticut. Founded in 1831 as a men's college under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church and with the support of prominent residents of Middletown, the ...

, the athletic teams of Wesleyan University *

West Perth Football Club The West Perth Football Club, nicknamed the Falcons, is an Australian rules football club located in Joondalup, Western Australia. West Perth competes in the West Australian Football League (WAFL) and WAFL Women's (WAFLW) and is the oldest exi ...

, an Australian rules football club in Western Australia *

Woking F.C. Woking Football Club is a professional association football club, based in Woking, Surrey, England. Founded in 1887, the club plays its home matches at The Laithwaite Community Stadium and is nicknamed the Cardinals, often shortened to the Card ...

, an English football team

Transport

Aircraft

* Cessna 177 Cardinal, a single engine aircraft * St. Louis Cardinal C-2-110, a light aircraft built in 1928 * NCSIST Cardinal, a family of small UAVs

Trains

* ''Cardinal'' (train) * ''The Cardinal'' (railcar)

Other uses

* Cardinal (color), a vivid red *

Cardinal (name) Cardinal is one of the most common surnames among aboriginal people in Canada (primarily Cree and Métis). It originated as a French name and came to New France and was part of the North American fur trade by the 1680s. In the 1780s, a small grou ...

, a surname * Cardinal, a Ruby programming language implementation using for the Parrot virtual machine