Keeper or Keepers may refer to:

People and characters

Persons

  • Keeper (surname)
  • William Keepers Maxwell Jr. (1908–2000), American novelist and editor

Roles

  • Archivist
  • Beekeeper
  • Gamekeeper
  • Gatekeeper
  • Greenkeeper
  • Keeper of the Privy Purse
  • Keeper of the Royal Archives
  • Legal guardian
  • Lighthouse keeper
  • Museum curator
  • Prison warden
  • Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
  • Zookeeper

Sportspeople

  • Goalkeeper, a player who protects a goal
  • Quarterback keeper, a slang term for a play in American football
  • Wicket-keeper, a position in cricket

Fictional characters

  • In the game of Quidditch from Harry Potter, a position that defends the goal hoops
  • Keeper (Transformers), a comics character
  • Keeper, a space wizard from the TV show Dino Charge
  • Keeper, see Drakh, a parasitic creature in the universe of Babylon 5

Videogame characters

  • Keepers are deadly destroyers built by the ancient Progenitors, in the Homeworld 2 videogame,
  • Keepers are members of a secret society who are charged with "keeping the balance" of power even within The City, in the Thief (series) videogames
  • Keepers (Mass Effect) are a fictional artificial species from the BioWare videogame Mass Effect
  • Keepers, an artificial life-forms that protect the Earth in the Nintendo videogame Sin & Punishment: Star Successor
  • The Keeper, a playable character in the videogame The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth introduced in the Afterbirth DLC
  • Dungeon Keepers (or just Keepers), characters in the Dungeon Keeper series, some of whom are the player characters

Literature

  • Keeper: Living with Nancy, a 2009 biographical book by Andrea Gillies
  • Keeper (Peet novel), a 2003 sports novel by Mal Peet
  • Keeper (Appelt novel), a 2010 novel by Kathi Appelt
  • Keepers (novel), a 2005 novel written by Gary A. Braunbeck

Music

  • "Keeper", a 2022 song by Tobi and Manny Brown
  • Keepers: Greatest Hits, a Tracy Byrd album
  • Keepers (Guy Clark album), 1997
  • Keepers, a 1997 album by Merl Saunders

Film

  • Keeper (2015 film), a French-language drama film directed by Guillaume Senez
  • Keeper (2025 film), an American horror film starring Tatiana Maslany
  • Keepers (film), also known as The Vanishing, a 2018 British psychological thriller film starring Gerard Butler
  • The Keepers, English title of Head Against the Wall, a 1959 French drama film directed by Georges Franju

Other

  • Keeper Hill, an Irish mountain
  • "Keepers" (Journeyman), the sixth episode of the first season of the TV show Journeyman
  • Keeper (chemistry) a small quantity of solvent added in an evaporative procedure to prevent analyte loss
  • Keeper (matchmaking website)
  • Keeper (password manager)
  • Magnet keeper
  • Menstrual cup
  • Strike plate of a door latch
  • Keepers: The Key of Life, a 2006 Russian video game
  • Keeper (video game), 2025

See also

  • Keeping, a surname
  • Kept, a reality television series
  • Goalkeeper (disambiguation)
  • The Keeper (disambiguation), including "The Keepers"