Tinker (disambiguation)

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

Tinker may also refer to:

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

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

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