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Gatekeeper (disambiguation)

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ345600
Source-derived summary

A gatekeeper is a person who controls access to something.

Gatekeeper or gatekeeping may also refer to:

Computing

H.323 Gatekeeper, a virtual network switch that manages a H.323 zone

GNU Gatekeeper, an H.323 gatekeeper implementation

GateKeeper, an MSN Chat authentication type

Gatekeeper (macOS), a security feature of Apple's macOS operating system

Science

Gatekeeper butterfly (Pyronia tithonus), a European brown butterfly

Gatekeeper neuron, a type of neuron in synaptic gating

Gatekeeper gene, a gene type that regulates apoptosis and is relevant in the genetics of cancer

Popular culture

Gate Keepers, a 1999 video game and manga, as well as a 2000 anime series

Gate Keepers 21, a 2002 OVA sequel to the Gate Keepers anime series

GateKeeper (roller coaster), a roller coaster at Cedar Point amusement park in Ohio

Gatekeeper (Fire Emblem), a character in the 2019 video game Fire Emblem: Three Houses

Gatekeepers (game show), a 2010 Singaporean Chinese language game show

The Gatekeeper, a 2002 film by John Carlos Frey

The Gatekeepers (book), a 2002 book by Jacques Steinberg on admissions to college

The Gatekeepers (film), a 2012 Israeli documentary film directed by Dror Moreh

The Power of Five (released as The Gatekeepers in the United States), a series of five fantasy novels by Anthony Horowitz in 2005–2012

Atmosfear: The Gatekeeper, a 2004 video board game, the first DVD version of the Atmosfear series

"The Gatekeeper" (Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur), an unaired episode of the series

Clare Langtree the Gatekeeper, a character in the 2006 television series Power Rangers: Mystic Force

Zuul, an evil demigod in the 1984 film Ghostbusters, who calls himself "the Gatekeeper" when possessing Dana

Sports

Gatekeeper (boxing), a professional boxer who is considered a test for aspiring boxers

St. Louis GateKeepers, a men's roller derby team based in St. Louis, Missouri

Music

The Gatekeeper, also known as Frukwan, a member of the hip-hop group Gravediggaz

Gatekeeper (band), an American experimental electronic duo from Chicago

"Gatekeeper", a song by As I Lay Dying from the 2019 album Shaped by Fire

"Gatekeeper", a song by Bleed from Within from the 2018 album Era

"Gatekeeper", a song by Celldweller from the 2016 album Soundtrack for the Voices in My Head Vol.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Gatekeeper (disambiguation)” is wikimedia disambiguation page. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Gatekeeper, disambiguation and Wikimedia, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1999, 2000, 2002, 2019—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Gatekeeper, disambiguation and Wikimedia is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from Gatekeeper (disambiguation)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.