Chief

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Chief may refer to:

Title or rank

Military and law enforcement

• Commander-in-chief, the person that exercises supreme operational command and control of a nation's military forces
• Chief of the Boat, the senior enlisted sailor on a U.S. Navy submarine
• Chief of police, the head of a police department
• Chief Master Sergeant, in the United States Air Force
• Chief petty officer, a non-commissioned officer or equivalent in many navies
• Chief warrant officer, a military rank

Other titles

• Chief officer, the highest senior officer in the deck department on a merchant vessel
• Chief of the Name, head of a family or clan
• Fire chief, top rank in a fire department
• Scottish clan chief, the head of a Scottish clan
• Tribal chief, the head of a tribal form of self-government

Aircraft

• Aeronca 50 Chief, an American light plane of the late 1930s
• Aeronca 11 Chief, an American two-seat airplane entering production in 1945
• Pawnee Chief, an American two seat helicopter design, first flown in 2005

Media

Literature

• Chiefs (novel), a 1981 novel by Stuart Woods
• The Chief (play), a 2003 one-man play about Art Rooney
• The Chief (newspaper) (briefly The Chief-Leader), a newspaper aimed at civil service workers in New York City

Music

• Chief Records, a record label 1957-1964
• Chief (band), a band signed to Domino Records
• Chief (album), a 2011 album by Eric Church

Film and television

• The Chief (film), a 1933 American comedy film
• The Chief (UK TV series), a 1990s crime drama
• Chiefs (miniseries), a 1983 miniseries starring Charlton Heston and Keith Carradine

Fictional characters

• Chief (comics), the leader of the Doom Patrol
• The Chief (Carmen Sandiego), in the Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? franchise
• Galen Tyrol or "The Chief", in the 2004 TV series Battlestar Galactica
• Master Chief (Halo) or just "Chief", in the gaming franchise Halo
• Chief, in the film The Fox and the Hound and in the novel on which it is based
• The Chief, in the TV situation comedy Get Smart
• The Chief, in the animated TV series The Plastic Man Comedy/Adventure Show
• The Chief, in the animated TV series T.U.F.F. Puppy
• Chief Bromden, in the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and in the film adaptation
• Charlestown Chiefs, a fictional ice hockey team in the film Slap Shot

Sports

• Chiefs (rugby union), a rugby union team in New Zealand
• Exeter Chiefs, a rugby union team in England
• Johnstown Chiefs, an ice hockey team in Pennsylvania that took its name from the fictional Charlestown Chiefs (see above)
• Laval Chiefs, an ice hockey team in Quebec
• Kaizer Chiefs F.C., a football club in South Africa
• Kansas City Chiefs, an American football team in Missouri
• Peoria Chiefs, a minor league baseball affiliate in Peoria, Illinois of the Chicago Cubs
• Syracuse Chiefs, a AAA minor league baseball team in upstate New York

Other uses

• Chief (heraldry), a horizontal band on a coat of arms
• Chief (train), a named passenger train of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
• Customs Handling of Import & Export Freight (CHIEF), a UK customs computer system
• Stawamus Chief, aka "The Chief", a granite dome in British Columbia

See also

• Chief of staff
• Chieftain (disambiguation)
• Super Chief (disambiguation)