Tinker (disambiguation)
A tinker is an itinerant tinsmith. It may also refer to:
Arts entertainment, and media
Fictional characters
- Tinker, the fictional assistant to detective Sexton Blake in British comic strips and novels
- Colonel Tinker, a minor fictional character in the Southern Victory Series novel How Few Remain by Harry Turtledove
- Tinker Dill, a fictional character in the British TV series Lovejoy
- Tinkers, the main protagonists of Vernor Vinge's book The Peace War
- Tuatha'an (or Tinkers) of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time
- Tinker Knight, a boss in Shovel Knight
Literature
- Tinker, a novel by Wen Spencer
- Tinkers (novel), the debut novel by Paul Harding
- "The Tinker", a short story from Orson Scott Card
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
- Tinker (band), a Canadian alternative rock band
- Tinker!, an American Sci-fi film (2018) starring Clayne Crawford
- Microsoft Tinker, a puzzle game
Places
- Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma
- Tinker Cobblestone Farmstead, Henrietta, New York, on the National Register of Historic Places
- Tinker Creek, a river in South Carolina
- Tinker Creek (Virginia), see List of rivers of Virginia
- Tinker (New Brunswick)
- Tinker Dam, New Brunswick
- Tinker Glacier, Antarctica
People with the name
- Tinker (surname)
- Tinker Fox (1610-1650), Parliamentarian colonel during the English Civil War, nicknamed "Tinker"
- Tinker Hatfield (born 1952), Nike shoe designer
- 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"
Sports arenas
- 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
Other uses
- Tinker (software), software for molecular dynamics simulation
- Tinker, the UK's first medical diabetes alert dog
- Tinker Building, Orlando, Florida, on the National Register of Historic Places
- Tinker Federal Credit Union, a credit union headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
- Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, a 1969 Supreme Court case
- Tinkers or The Tinkers, an alternate (and often pejorative) name for the itinerant people in Europe, including Irish Travellers, Romani (Gypsies), and Scottish Travellers
See also
- Gypsy Vanner horse, also known as the Tinker horse
- Tink (disambiguation)
- "Tinker, Tailor," a traditional nursery rhyme
- Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
- Tinker Bell, fairy companion of Peter Pan
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