Communist groups

• Red Guards (Finland)
  Red Guards (Finland)
  The Red Guards formed the army of Red Finland during the Finnish Civil War in 1918. The combined strength of the Red Guard was about 30,000 at the beginning of the Civil War, and peaked at 90,000-120,000 during the course of the conflict....
  
  , during the Finnish Civil War
• Red Guards (Russia)
  Red Guards (Russia)
  In the context of the history of Russia and Soviet Union, Red Guards were paramilitary formations consisting of workers and partially of soldiers and sailors formed in the time frame of the Russian Revolution of 1917...
  
  , during the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Russian Civil War
• Red Guards (Bavaria), in the Bavarian Soviet Republic
  Bavarian Soviet Republic
  The Bavarian Soviet Republic, also known as the Munich Soviet Republic was, as part of the German Revolution of 1918–1919, the short-lived attempt to establish a socialist state in form of a council republic in the Free State of Bavaria. It sought independence from the also recently proclaimed...
  
  
• Red Guards (Hungary), in the Hungarian Soviet Republic
  Hungarian Soviet Republic
  The Hungarian Soviet Republic or Soviet Republic of Hungary was a short-lived Communist state established in Hungary in the aftermath of World War I....
  
   (1918-1919)
• Red Guards (China)
  Red Guards (China)
  Red Guards were a mass movement of civilians, mostly students and other young people in the People's Republic of China , who were mobilized by Mao Zedong in 1966 and 1967, during the Cultural Revolution.-Origins:...
  
  , composed largely of students during the Cultural Revolution
• Red Guard Party (United States)
  Red Guard Party (United States)
  The Red Guards were a Chinese American civil rights group active from 1967 to 1971. The movement drew inspiration from a variety of sources including the Boxer Rebellion, the Red Guards in China, and the Black Panthers. The I Wor Kuen were a similar group originally based in New York City named...
  
  , a militant Chinese-American civil rights grouped closely modeled after the Black Panthers

Other Groups

• The Red Guard of Senegal
  Red Guard of Senegal
  The Red Guard of Senegal is a unit of the Senegalese Gendarmerie which is responsible for presidential security. It also has ceremonial duties and assists in general policing. It is very similar in concept to the French Republican Guard, with which it is officially twinned...
  
  
• The Krathin Daeng or Red Gaurs
  Red Gaurs
  The Red Gaurs was a paramilitary anti-leftist organization active in Thailand during the 1970s, when a communist insurgency existed in both the northeast and far south. Many members were veterans of the Vietnam War or former mercenaries in Laos and thus fanatically anti-communist. They were...
  
  , death squads active in Thailand in the 1970s, which have been mistakenly referred to as "Red Guards"

Fictional uses

• Emperor's Royal Guard
  Emperor's Royal Guard
  Royal Guards are soldiers who protect Emperor Palpatine in the fictional Star Wars universe. They appear in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi and in the third prequel film, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith...
  
  , fictional elite Imperial corps of the Star Wars universe, also sometimes referred as "Red Guards"
• Redguard
  Races of The Elder Scrolls
  The Elder Scrolls series of role-playing video games are populated with a number of fantasy races, ten of which are playable. Generally, these races fall into one of three distinct archetypes, namely, humans, elvenkind, and beastfolk....
  
  , fictional race in the popular Elder Scrolls game series