Defender

Defender commonly refers to:

• Defense (military)
• Defense (sports)
  • Defender (association football)

Defender(s) or The Defender(s) may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment and media

Film and television

• The Defender (1989 film), a Canadian documentary
• The Defender (1994 film), or The Bodyguard from Beijing
• The Defender (2004 film), a Btitish-German action film

• The Defenders (1961 TV series), an American courtroom drama
• The Defenders (2010 TV series), an American legal comedy-drama
• The Defenders (miniseries), an American Marvel web TV series
• "The Defender", a 1957 episode of Studio One (American TV series)

Literature

• Defender, a 2001 novel in C. J. Cherryh's Foreigner universe
• Defenders (comics), a set of fictional superhero groups in Marvel comic books, and the name of a comic book series
• The Defender (Thwaites novel), by F. J. Thwaites, 1936
• The Defender (Kalashnikoff novel), by Nicholas Kalashnikoff, 1951
• "The Defenders" (short story), by Philip K. Dick, 1953
• The Chicago Defender, a Chicago-based online newspaper

Music

• Defender (album), by Rory Gallagher, 1987
• "Defender" (Gabriella Cilmi song), 2010
• "Defender" (Peter Andre song), 2010
• "Defender", a song by Manowar from the 1987 album Fighting the World
• "The Defender", a song by Buckner & Garcia from the 1982 album Pac-Man Fever
• The Defender (musical), a 1902 musical

Other uses in arts and entertainment

• Defender (card player), a player who plays against the declarer
• The Defenders (ballet), by William Forsythe, 2007
• Defender (1981 video game)
  • Defender (2002 video game), a remake

Transportation

Maritime

• Defender (1895 yacht), the 1895 America's Cup winner
• Defender (1982 yacht), 12-metre class yacht
• HMS Defender, several ships of the Royal Navy
• USS Defender (MCM-2), a mine countermeasures ship of the U.S. Navy
• Defender-class boat, of the U.S. Coast Guard
• Defender-class torpedo boat, built in 1883

Vehicles

• Land Rover Defender, a British 4×4 off-road vehicle
  • Land Rover Defender (L663), from 2019

Aircraft

• Britten-Norman Defender, a multi-role utility transport aircraft
• McDonnell Douglas MD 500 Defender, a light military helicopter
• Fletcher FD-25 Defender, a 1950s American light ground-attack aircraft

Other uses

• Defender, California, U.S., a former settlement
• Defenders (Ireland), a Roman Catholic agrarian secret society in 18th century Ireland
• Defender Limited, a British Virgin Islands investment fund
• Defender Mountain, on the American-Canadian border
• Defender, a defendant in Scots law for civil cases
• Defender, in the America's Cup, a yacht representing the club that currently holds the Cup
• Connecticut Defenders, a former American baseball team
• Los Angeles D-Fenders, now South Bay Lakers, an American basketball team
• Windows Defender, anti-malware software

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with defender
• All pages with titles containing defender
• All pages with titles beginning with The Defender
• Defense (disambiguation)
• Defensor (disambiguation)
• Defender of the Faith (disambiguation)
• Guardian (disambiguation)
• Protector (disambiguation)
• Defendor, a 2009 Canadian-American film

• Public defender, a lawyer appointed to represent people who cannot afford to hire a lawyer