Tinker (disambiguation) explained

Tinker is an archaic term for an itinerant tinsmith who mends household utensils.

Tinker may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

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), a novel by American author Paul Harding
• "The Tinker", a short story from Orson Scott Card

Other uses in arts and entertainment

• Microsoft Tinker, a puzzle game
• Tinker, a 1949 British film directed and co-written by Herbert Marshall
• Tinker (band), a Canadian alternative rock band
• Tinker!, an American science-fiction film (2018) starring Clayne Crawford

Places

United States

• Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma
• Tinker Cobblestone Farmstead, on the National Register of Historic Places in Henrietta, New York
• Tinker Creek, a river in South Carolina
• Tinker Creek (Virginia), see List of rivers of Virginia

Elsewhere

• Tinker, New Brunswick, Canada
• Tinker Dam, New Brunswick, Canada
• Tinker Glacier, Antarctica

People

Surname

• Tinker (surname), includes a list of people with this surname

Given name

• Tinker Hatfield (born 1952), Nike shoe designer
• Tinker Keck (born 1976), American fitness trainer and former professional gridiron football player

Nickname

• Tinker Beets (Derrick John Beets, born 1941), Rhodesian former field hockey player and cricketer
• Tinker Fox (John Fox, 1610–1650), Parliamentarian colonel during the English Civil War
• Tinker Juarez (David Juarez, born 1961), American former bicycle racer
• Tinker Owens (Charles Wayne Owens, born 1954), American former professional gridiron football player

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, an alternate (and often pejorative) name for the itinerant groups in Europe, including Irish Travellers, Scottish Travellers, and Romani people

See also

• Gypsy Vanner horse, also known as the Tinker horse
• Tink (disambiguation)
• Tinkers (disambiguation)
• Tinker Bell, fairy companion of Peter Pan