A leader is one who influences or leads others.

Leader may also refer to:

Places

Municipalities

  • Leader, Colorado, United States
  • Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada

Rivers

  • Leader River, New Zealand

Buildings

  • Leader House, a building in Sheffield, England

People

  • Leader (surname)
  • Gary Glitter (born 1944), a musician nicknamed "The Leader"
  • Oswald Mosley (1896–1980), a British politician known to his followers as "The Leader"

Art, entertainment, and media

Films

  • Leader (1964 film), a Hindi film starring Dilip Kumar
  • Leader (2009 film), a Sinhalese film starring Ranjan Ramanayaka
  • Leader (2010 film), a Telugu film starring Rana Daggubati
  • Leader: Amie Bangladesh, a 2023 Bangladeshi Bengali film featuring Shakib Khan

Literature

  • The Leader, novel by Guy Walters
  • "The Leader" (story), a satirical story by Radoje Domanović

Music

  • Leader (orchestra), a position within an orchestra
  • Leader Records (UK), a folk music record label
  • Leader Records (US), a subsidiary of Kapp Records
  • The Leaders, a musical group
  • "The Leader", a song by the Clash on the album Sandinista!
  • "The Leader", a track by Johan Shevanesh from the 2014 Indian film Aal

Newspapers

Current newspapers

  • Leader Community Newspapers, a series of 33 local papers in metropolitan Melbourne, Australia
  • Regina Leader-Post, formerly the Leader, in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
  • Liverpool Leader, formerly the Leader, a newspaper published in Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia
  • The Leader (Angaston), a weekly newspaper published in the Barossa Valley, South Australia
  • The Leader (Corning), a daily newspaper published in Corning, New York, United States
  • The Leader (Flower Mound), a community newspaper published in Flower Mound, Texas, United States
  • The Leader (Fredonia), a newspaper published by the State University of New York at Fredonia
  • The Leader (Houston), a newspaper published in Houston, Texas
  • The Leader (Utah), a newspaper published by Pioneer Newspapers in Tremonton, Utah, United States
  • The Leader (Welsh newspaper), a daily paper in Wales
  • The Leader, a nickname for the New Hampshire Union Leader newspaper in New Hampshire, United States
  • The Leader, common name for the St George and Sutherland Shire Leader, in Southern Sydney, Australia
  • Limerick Leader, in Limerick, Ireland
  • The Leinster Leader, a local newspaper in Co. Kildare, Ireland

Former newspapers

  • Labour Leader, a British newspaper (1888–1986)
  • Lincoln County Leader (1893–1987), a weekly newspaper in Oregon, U.S.
  • The Leader (Allahabad newspaper), published 1909–1967
  • The Leader (English newspaper), a weekly newspaper (1850–1860) founded by G. H. Lewes
  • The Leader (Welsh newspaper), a local daily newspaper in Chester, England, published 1973-2017 (also a still-ongoing website)
  • The Leader (Irish newspaper), a defunct Irish newspaper founded in 1900 by D. P. Moran
  • The Leader (Melbourne), a weekly newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, companion to The Age, published from the 1850s to 1935 or later
  • The Leader (Orange, NSW), a defunct Australian newspaper

Other arts, entertainment, and media

  • Leader (character), a fictional character from Marvel Comics
  • Film leader, a length of film that aids in threading a filmstrip
  • Leading article, a piece of writing intended to promote an opinion, also called an editorial
  • The Leader (web series), a Chinese web series about Karl Marx

Initiatives and organizations

  • Leader (political party), a minor political party in Israel
  • LEADER programme, a European Union initiative for rural development

Other uses

  • Front-runner, or leader
  • Leader (dance partner)
  • Leader (spark), part of an electrical spark
  • Leader (typography), a row of characters (usu. dots or dashes) to connect items across a page (as in a table of contents)
  • River Leader, river in Scotland
  • Leader, in angling, the section of fishing line between the main line and the hook
  • Leader, in architecture, a synonym for downspout
  • Leader, in distributed computing, the process selected after a leader election
  • Leader, an appliance sub-brand of Haier
  • SR Leader class, an experimental British steam locomotive
  • In engineering drawing, a leader or leader line is a thin line connecting a label or dimension with the part to which it applies

See also

  • Bandleader
  • Orchestra leader
  • Leadership (disambiguation)
  • Leading (disambiguation)
  • Lider (disambiguation)
  • Loss leader
  • Scout leader
  • SR Leader class, a class of locomotive
  • Team leader
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