Handler

Handler or The Handler may refer to:

People

Occupations

• Handler, offensive player in Ultimate (sport)
• Animal handler, person who conducts animal training or is a wrangler
• Handler, a sport coach, agent or promoter
• Agent handling, person who manages a spy or agent of organizations in conflict such as nations and even groups and gangs involved in crusades, jihad, mass organized conversion rackets, etc.
• Baggage handler, a person who loads and unloads baggage and other cargo for transport via aircraft
• Mail handler, a postal worker
• Aircraft handler, a branch of the Fleet Air Arm/Royal Navy
• Garter handler, an old term for a pimp
• Political handler, an advisor and supporter of a politician

Persons named Handler

• Carole Handler, American attorney
• Chelsea Handler, American comedian and talk show host
• Daniel Handler, American author and musician
• Evan Handler, American actor
• Evelyn Handler, 17th president of the University of New Hampshire
• Phil Handler, American football player and coach
• Rebecca Handler, American/Japanese actress
• Ruth Handler, American businesswoman
• Wolfgang Händler, German computer scientist

Computing

• Handler, an asynchronous callback (computer programming) subroutine in computing
• A particular class of service process in DNIX
• A20 handler, the IBM PC memory manager software controlling access to the High Memory Area
• Event handler, a routine for processing a programming event
• Interrupt handler, a routine for processing CPU interrupts
• Signal handler, a routine for handling signals sent to a process
• Exception handling, a routine for handling software exceptions

Machines

• Air handler, a device used as part of an HVAC (Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning) system
• Handler, a robotic device used to automatically place a device under test into an automatic test equipment system
• Seismic Handler, an interactive analysis program for preferably continuous waveform data
• Telescopic handler, a machine widely used in agriculture and industry

Arts and entertainment

• "The Handler", a short story by Ray Bradbury
• Handler (play), by Robert Schenkkan
• The Handler (Har Mar Superstar album), the third CD from American singer Har Mar Superstar
• Handler, a character class in Dragonlance
• The Handler (TV series)
• "The Handler", a song by British rock-band Muse on their 2015 album Drones (Muse album)

See also

• Hendler
• Wrangler (disambiguation)