Censor

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Censor may refer to:

People with the name

• Cato the Elder, also known as Cato the Censor (Marcus Porcius Cato, 234–149 BC), a Roman statesman
• Yair Censor (born 1943), Israeli mathematician

Organizations

• Censor, the police of the Royal College of Physicians
• Imperial censorate, a high-level supervisory agency in ancient China, whose duties involved criticizing other officials

Titles

• Censor (Christ Church, Oxford)
  , a student of Christ Church, Oxford undertaking disciplinary duties assigned to deans of other colleges
• Censor, the title of the head of the former Fitzwilliam House; see
  List of Masters of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
• Censor of
  St Cuthbert's Society
  , employed by University of Durham to oversee Society members
• Censor Librorum
  , an expert called on to advise the bishop of a diocese whether or not to grant an imprimatur
• Chief Censor of New Zealand
  , the head of the government's Office of Film and Literature Classification
• Roman censor, a magistrate for maintaining the census, supervising public morality, etc.

Arts, entertainment, and media

• Censor (2001 film), a drama film written and directed by Dev Anand
• Censor (2021 film), a horror film directed by Prano Bailey-Bond
• "Censor" (song), a single released in 1988 by the band Skinny Puppy, renamed from its original title, "Dogshit"

See also

• Censer, a small metal or stone dish used for burning incense
• Censoring (statistics), the situation when the value of an observation is only partially known
• Censorship, the control of speech and other forms of human expression
• Censure, a formal reprimand
• Census
• Sensor, a device or organ that detects or senses a signal or its environment

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