Bender
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Bender may refer to:
- An older name for Tighina, Moldova
- A bending brake, a sheet metal bender machine
- A bender tent, a type of makeshift shelter made using bended tree branches
- 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
- A chiefly British slang word for a homosexual
- An expression for a Binge drinking spree, used in between-the-wars Britain and late-20th-century America
- An Airbender, Waterbender, Firebender, or Earthbender off of the fictional Nickelodeon series Avatar: The Last Airbender
Real people:
- 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
- Steve Bender, a German musician and record producer, formerly of the group Dschinghis Khan
- Sir Bernard Docker (millionaire) nickname was "Bender"
Fictional characters:
- John Bender, 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
