Bender

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
• Josh Bender, a freeride mountain biker.
• 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
• Manfred Bender, a German soccer player and coach
• 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.

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 Turkish name for Tighina, second-largest city of Transnistria, Moldova