Governor (disambiguation)

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A governor is an official, usually acting as the executive of a non-sovereign level of government. Governor or The Governor may also refer to:

In leadership

• Governor (United States), the head of state and head of government of a U.S. state
• School governor, a voluntary role in state schools of England, Wales and Northern Ireland
• BBC Governor, a member of the former Board of Governors of the BBC
• Governor of the Bank of England, the most senior position in the Bank of England
• jiedushi, military governors in 8th- to 11th-centuries imperial China

In arts, entertainment, and media

In film and literature

• Governor (Chuck), a device used in the TV series Chuck (TV series)
• The Governor (film) or Vali, a 2009 Turkish film
• The Governor (The Walking Dead), a fictional antagonist named Phillip Blake in The Walking Dead comic book series and television show
• The Governor (TV series), a New Zealand television miniseries about Sir George Grey

In music

• Governor (singer), American recording artist
• "Governor", a song from 4am Friday, Avail's 1996 album
• "The Governor", a song from Welcome to Britain, Youth of Britain's 2004 EP

In geography

• Governor Lake, Nova Scotia, a community of in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia

In technology

• Governor (device), a device that regulates the speed of a machine
  • Centrifugal governor, a type of governor that regulates fuel intake to an engine
• The Governor, an application monitoring Blizzard game's Warden client

In other uses

• Governor (linguistics), a type of syntactic object that has the potential to govern another
• "The Governor", a ring name of wrestler Daffney (Shannon Spruill)

See also

• Governor Island (disambiguation)
• Governors State University