Bender
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Bender may refer to:
Real People:
- Arik Bender, an Israeli journalist. Parliamentry reporter with the daily "Maariv"
- Albert "Chief" Bender, Hall of Fame U.S. baseball pitcher of the early 20th century
- Albert K. Bender, UFO researcher
- Barbara Bender, an archaeologist
- John R. Bender, a college football and basketball coach
- Jonathan Bender, a former NBA player
- Hans Bender, a parapsychologist, the founder of the Instituts für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene
- Hy Bender, the author of several ... for Dummies books and the Sandman Companion
- Lauretta Bender, a child neuropsychiatrist, developer of the Bender Gestalt Visual Motor Test
- Lawrence Bender, a Hollywood movie producer
- Peter Bender, Canadian psychologist, teacher and professional hockey coach
- Russ Bender (1910-1969), Hollywood film and television actor in the 1950's and '60's.
- Steve Bender, a German musician and record producer, formerly of the group Dschinghis Khan
- Sir Bernard Docker (millionaire) nickname was "Bender"
- Bender Hamlet was a Baron Maurice de Hirsch sponsored Jewish farm colony in the interlake region of Manitoba, Canada, and was named after Jacob Bender, the land prospector who recruited settlers from Europe, but who never actually lived in the settlement himself
Fictional characters:
- John Bender (movie character), a character from The Breakfast Club played by Judd Nelson
- Ostap Bender, a fictional hero of Ilf and Petrov
- Bender Bending Rodríguez, a fictional sentient robot in the Futurama animated television series
- Sally Bender Hyde, movie character played by Jane Fonda in Coming Home (1978) for which she won the Academy Award (Oscar) for Best Actress in a Leading Role.
Objects:
- Bending brake, a sheet metal bender machine
- Bender tent, a type of makeshift shelter made using bended tree branches
- An Airbender, Waterbender, Firebender, or Earthbender off of the fictional Nickelodeon series Avatar: The Last Airbender
Slang:
- An expression for a Binge drinking spree, refering to the act of bending over to vomit
- Former British slang for a sixpence
- A chiefly British slang word for a homosexual
Places:
- The Romanian name for Tighina, second-largest city of Transnistria, Moldova