Bear (disambiguation)

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Contents 1 Places 2 Music 3 Fiction 4 Literature 5 Companies 6 Sports teams 7 People 8 Acronyms 9 Other uses 10 See also

A bear is a mammal in the family Ursidae of the order Carnivora.

Bear may also refer to:

• Bear (ship), a famous exploration ship
• Bear market, one of several market trends referring to a cyclical downturn in a stock market
• Tupolev Tu-95, a Soviet bomber aircraft given the NATO reporting name Bear

[edit] Places

• Bear, Delaware, an unincorporated community in the United States
• Bears (Friesland), a village in the Netherlands
• Bear Brook (disambiguation)
• Bear Creek (disambiguation)
• Bear Island (disambiguation)

[edit] Music

• The Bears (band), a band featuring Adrian Belew
• Mostly Bears, an experimental rock group from Tucson, Arizona
• Minus the Bear, an alternative band from the Seattle area
• The Bear (album), an album from rock band Element Eighty
• Joseph Haydn's 82nd Symphony is nicknamed The Bear (French: l'Ours)

[edit] Fiction

• The Bear (1984 film), a 1984 movie directed by Richard C. Sarafian
• The Bear (1988 film), also known as L'Ours, a 1988 film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud
• The Bear (1999 film), animated film directed by Hilary Audus
• Brother Bear, a 2003 Academy-Award nominated Disney animated film
• Berenstain Bears, a family of anthropomorphic bears from children's books and films
• Little Bear (disambiguation), a character in a series of children's books and television series of the same name
• The Bear, a character created by Leigh Francis

[edit] Literature

• The Bear, a novella by William Faulkner
• Bear/D7101, a character from The Railway Series books by the Rev. W. Awdry
• Bear (comic book), an alternative comic book by Jamie Smart
• The Bear (opera), an opera by William Walton
• The Bear (fairy tale)
• The Three Bears (fairy tale)
• The Bear, a play by Anton Chekhov
• Bear (novel), a novel by Marian Engel

[edit] Companies

• Bear Inn, a popular name for British public houses
  • Bear Inn, Oxford a particularly historic British public house
• Bear Stearns, a global investment bank and securities trading and brokerage firm
• CKNL-FM, a radio station in Fort St. John, British Columbia with the brand name The Bear
• CKQB-FM, a radio station in Ottawa whose on-air brand name used to be The Bear, but is now Virgin Radio
• 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
• WBRW-FM, a radio station in Blacksburg, Virginia with the brand name 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
• La New Bears, Taiwanese baseball 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
• Michael Bear, also known as Micky or Mickey, English cricketer of the 1950s and 1960s
• 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, a British adventurer, writer, and television presenter
• 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
• Edward Ellice, British merchant and politician, known as the Bear
• 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

[edit] Acronyms

• BEAR (cipher), a block cipher designed by Ross Anderson and Eli Biham
• BEAR, a particle beam weapon developed as part of the Strategic Defense Initiative
• BEAR, Battlefield Extraction Assist Robot, from Vecna Technologies

[edit] Other uses

• Bear, a rank in Cub Scouting (Boy Scouts of America)
• Microsoft Bear, an unofficial mascot hidden in Windows 3.1 and Windows 95
• Bear, a fictional character from the multimedia franchise .hack.
• Bear (gay culture), term for a subculture of masculine-identified gay men who tend to sport facial and body hair

[edit] See also

• Bär
• Baer
• Big Bear (disambiguation)
• Celebrity bears
• List of fictional bears
• List of historical bears
• Bare

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