Tinker (disambiguation)
A tinker is an itinerant tinsmith. It may also refer to:
In print
- Tinker, a novel by Wen Spencer
- Tinkers (novel), the debut novel by Paul Harding
- "The Tinker", a short story from Orson Scott Card
- Tinker, the fictional assistant to detective Sexton Blake in British comic strips and novels
- Tinker, a minor fictional character in the Southern Victory Series novel How Few Remain by Harry Turtledove
- Tinkers, the main protagonists of Vernor Vinge's book The Peace War
- Tuatha'an (or Tinkers) of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time
Places
- Tinker Glacier, Antarctica
- Tinker Creek, a river in South Carolina
- Tinker Creek (Virginia) - see List of rivers of Virginia
People
- Tinker (surname)
- Tinker Hatfield (born 1952), Nike shoe designer
- Tinker Fox (1610-1650), Parliamentarian colonel during the English Civil War, nicknamed "Tinker"
- Tinker Juarez (born 1961), former Bicycle Motocross (BMX) racer and current mountain bike racer, nicknamed "Tinker"
- Tinker Owens (born 1954), American former National Football League player nicknamed "Tinker"
- The Tinkers, an alternate (and often pejorative) name for the Irish Travellers.
Other uses
- Tinker Dam, New Brunswick
- Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma
- Tinker Cobblestone Farmstead, Henrietta, New York, on the National Register of Historic Places
- Tinker Building, Orlando, Florida, on the National Register of Historic Places
- Tinker Field, a baseball stadium in Orlando, Florida, named for Hall-of-Fame baseball player Joe Tinker
- Tinker Park, a former baseball ground in Indianapolis, Indiana, named for Tinker Street
- Tinker (software), software for molecular dynamics simulation
- Microsoft Tinker, a puzzle game
- Tinker Federal Credit Union, a credit union headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
- Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, a 1969 Supreme Court decision
- Tinker, the UK's first medical hypo alert dog
- Tinker, a fictional character in the British TV series Lovejoy
See also
- "Tinker, Tailor," a traditional nursery rhyme
- Tinker Bell, fairy companion of Peter Pan
- Gypsy Vanner horse, also known as the Tinker horse
- Tink (disambiguation)
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