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A bear is a large mammal in the family Ursidae of the order Carnivora.
Bear may also refer to:
- Bear (ship), a famous exploration ship
- Bear community, a subculture of the gay community consisting of large, hairy, and usually bearded, men
- Bear market, one of several market trends referring to a cyclical downturn in a stock market
- BEAR (cipher), a block cipher designed by Ross Anderson and Eli Biham
- The Bear (film), also known as L'Ours, a 1988 film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud
- The Bear (feature film), a 1984 movie directed by Richard C. Sarafian
- Tupolev Tu-95, a Soviet bomber aircraft given the NATO reporting name Bear
- Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears, a Walt Disney cartoon from the 1980s
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[edit] Companies
- Bear Inn, a popular name for British public houses
- Bear Stearns, a global investment bank and securities trading and brokerage firm
- CKQB-FM, a radio station in Ottawa whose on-air brand name is The Bear
- CFBR-FM, a radio station in Edmonton, Alberta with the brand name The Bear
- WBYR-FM, a radio station in Fort Wayne, Indiana with the brand name The Bear
- KQBR-FM, a radio station in Lubbock, Texas whose brand name is The Bear
- Bear Archery
[edit] Sports teams
- Alberta Golden Bears, the men's teams at the University of Alberta
- Baylor Bears, sports teams of Baylor University
- Brisbane Bears, former Australian Rules Football team
- California Golden Bears, sports teams of the University of California, Berkeley
- Central Arkansas Bears, the men's teams of the University of Central Arkansas
- Chicago Bears, an American football team
- Missouri State Bears, sports teams of the Missouri State University
- North Sydney Bears, Australian rugby league team
- NYIT Bears, the sports teams of the New York Institute of Technology
- University of Northern Colorado athletics
- Sheffield Bears IHC, the ice hockey club of the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University, UK
[edit] People
- Albert I, Margrave of Brandenburg, also known as Albert the Bear
- Elizabeth Bear, an American Speculative Fiction author
- Glecia Bear, (b. 1912), Cree author
- Greg Bear, an American science fiction author
- Bear Cut Ear, a chief of the Crow tribe
- Bear Hunter (d.1863), a Shoshone chief
- Bear's Rib, a Hunkpapa Sioux chief
- Bear Bryant, an American college football coach
- Bear Grylls, youngest Briton to climb Mount Everest
- Big Bear (1825-1888), Cree leader
- Blackbear Bosin (1921-1980), a Comanche-Kiowa artist and painter
- Conquering Bear (d.1854), a Brulé Sioux leader
- Crazy Bear (Assiniboine chief), an Assiniboine chief
- Encouraging Bear, Oglala Lakota medicine man and spiritual adviser to Crazy Horse
- George Halas, founder of the Chicago Bears, known as Papa Bear
- Hollow Horn Bear (c.1850–1913), a Brulé Sioux leader
- Kicking Bear (1846–1904), a Lakota chief
- Medicine Grizzlybear Lake, a Native American writer
- Lean Bear (1813–1864), a Cheyenne chief
- Danny Little Bear (1926-1991), American professional wrestler
- Mato-tope (c.1795–1837), chief of the Mandan tribe, also known as Four Bears
- Bear McCreary, a classically trained musician and composer known for his work on the reimagined Battlestar Galactica
- Satanta (White Bear) (d.1878), a Kiowa war leader who was also known as White Bear
- Sitting Bear (c.1830–1871), a Kiowa warrior and medicine man
- Standing Bear (c.1834–1908), a chief of the Ponca tribe
- Owsley Stanley, nicknamed Bear, the largest LSD manufacturer of the 1960s and soundman for the Grateful Dead
- Ten Bears (1792-1873), a Comanche leader
- Cameron White, Australian cricketer nicknamed Bear
- Bernie Whitebear (1937-2000), a Native American activist
- Andrew John Yellowbear Jr. (b.1974), American murderer
- Yonaguska (d.1839), a Cherokee leader also known as Drowning Bear
- Ray Young Bear, a Meskwaki poet
- Bear, Delaware, an unincorporated community in the United States
- Bear, a rank in Cub Scouting (Boy Scouts of America)
- Bear (novel), a novel by Marian Engel
- Microsoft Bear, an unofficial mascot hidden in Windows 3.1 and Windows 95
- BEAR, a particle beam weapon developed as part of the Strategic Defense Initiative
- BEAR, Battlefield Extraction Assist Robot, from Vecna Technologies
- Bear (.hack), a fictional character from the multimedia franchise .hack.
- Cameron White, Australian cricketer nicknamed "Bear".
- Bears (Friesland), a village in the Netherlands.
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