Chief

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Chief may refer to:

Contents 1 Title or rank 2 Sports 3 People nicknamed The Chief 4 People nicknamed Chief 5 Aircraft 6 Media 7 Places 8 Other meanings 9 See also

[edit] Title or rank

• Tribal chief, the head of a tribal form of self-government
• Scottish clan chief, the head of a Scottish clan
• Chiefs of the Name, the head of a family or clan
• Paramount chief
• Chief Petty Officer, a non-commissioned officer or equivalent in many navies
• Chief of the Boat, the senior enlisted sailor on a submarine in the US Navy
• Chief Engineer, the senior officer in the engineering department on a merchant vessel
• Warrant Officer, in the United States Army
• Chief Master Sergeant, in the United States Air Force
• Fire chief, top rank in a fire department
• Chief of police, the head of a police department

[edit] Sports

• Chiefs (Super rugby franchise), formerly Waikato Chiefs, a rugby team in New Zealand
• Laval Chiefs, a hockey team in Quebec
• Kaizer Chiefs FC, a football club in South Africa
• Kansas City Chiefs, an American football team in Missouri
• Syracuse Chiefs, a minor league baseball team in upstate New York
• Charlestown Chiefs, a fictional hockey team in the film Slap Shot
• Peoria Chiefs, a minor league baseball affiliate in Peoria, Illinois of the Chicago Cubs

[edit] People nicknamed The Chief

• Art Rooney, founding owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers
• Robert Parish, professional basketball player in the NBA
• Harold Roe Bartle, former mayor of Kansas City, Missouri and founder of the Tribe of Mic-O-Say
• Chad Cordero, professional baseball player in the MLB
• John Diefenbaker, former Prime Minister of Canada
• Paul Harragon, Australia Rugby League former player and commentator
• Charles Stewart Parnell
• Jamie Thomas, Pro skateboarder and owner of Black Box Distribution
• Noel Gallagher, for his dominating position in the British band Oasis, as opposed to the nickname used for his brother Liam, "Our Kid"
• Jason Dunstall, former AFL Footballer with Hawthorn
• Felipe Rose, the "Indian Chief" in the Village People.

[edit] People nicknamed Chief

• Wayne Allison, a football player

[edit] Aircraft

• Aeronca 50 Chief, an American light plane of the late 1930s
• Aeronca 11 Chief, a two-seat airplane entering production in 1945

[edit] Media

• The Chief-Leader, a newspaper aimed at civil service workers in New York City
• Chief (comics), a fictional character and the mastermind behind the Doom Patrol
• Chief (Carmen Sandiego), a fictional character in the Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? franchise of computer games and TV shows
• The Chief, a fictional character from the television situation comedy Get Smart
• The Chief, a fictional character in The Plastic Man Comedy/Adventure Show
• The Chief (TV series), a television series on CablePulse 24 in Toronto, Ontario
• Chiefs (TV miniseries), a 1983 TV miniseries starring Charlton Heston and Keith Carradine
• Chiefs (novel), a novel by Stuart Woods
• The Chief, an Anglia TV drama around a fictional Chief Constable in Eastlands Constabulary, played initially by Tim Piggott-Smith, and latterly, Martin Shaw
• Chief, a fictional character in the novel and film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

[edit] Places

• Stawamus Chief, a granite monolith near Squamish, British Columbia, Canada

[edit] Other meanings

• Chief (heraldry), a horizontal band on a coat of arms
• Chief (passenger train)
• "The Chief", the controversial mascot for the Illinois Fighting Illini until 2007
• "The Chief", the name of a Champagn-Urbana radio station named after said mascot
• "Chief", is a derogatory term meaning fool or similar, the beauty of which is that those labelled a "Chief" believe it to be complimentary, e.g a figure of authority. A common insult used in Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom. Also translated to "Jefe" in Spanish.
• CHIEF, HMRC's Customs Handling of Import and Export Freight, a computer system to automate customs entries in the UK.

[edit] See also

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

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