# Defender

Defender(s) or The Defender(s) may refer to:
* Defense (military)
* Defense (sports)
** Defender (association football)

## Arts and entertainment
### Film, television, and theatre
#### Film

* The Defender (1989 film), a Canadian documentary
* The Defender (1994 film), or The Bodyguard from Beijing
* The Defender (2004 film), a British-German action film
* The Defenders (2023 film), an Australian documentary about Bahraini dissenter and footballer Hakeem al-Araibi

#### Television

* "The Defender" (Studio One), a 1957 episode of Studio One
* The Defender (2021 TV series), a Czech crime drama television series
* 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 TV series
* "The Defenders" (The Defenders episode)
** The Defenders Saga, a term used to describe the interconnected set of Marvel Netflix television series

#### Theatre

* The Defenders (ballet), a 2007 ballet by William Forsythe
* The Defender (musical), 1902 Broadway musical

### Gaming

* Defender (card player), a player who plays against the declarer
* Defender (1981 video game)
* Defender (2002 video game), a remake
* Defender, a 1982 pinball table based on the 1981 video game.

### Literature

* The Chicago Defender, a Chicago-based online newspaper
* Defender, a 2001 novel in C. J. Cherryh's Foreigner series
* The Defender (Kalashnikoff novel), a 1951 novel by Nicholas Kalashnikoff
* The Defender (Thwaites novel), a 1936 novel by F. J. Thwaites
* Defenders (comics), a fictional superhero group in Marvel comic books
* "The Defenders" (short story), a 1953 short story by Philip K. Dick

### Music
#### Songs

* "Defender" (Gabriella Cilmi song), 2010
* "Defender" (Peter Andre song), 2010
* "The Defender", a 1982 song by Buckner & Garcia from Pac-Man Fever
* "Defender", a 1987 song by Manowar from Fighting the World
* "Defender", a 2012 song by As I Lay Dying from Awakened
* "Defender", a 2020 song by August Burns Red from Guardians
* "Defenders", a 2014 song by DragonForce from Maximum Overload

#### Other music

* Defender (album), a 1987 album by Rory Gallagher

## Sports

* Defender (America's Cup), the America's Cup yacht representing the club that currently holds the Cup
* Connecticut Defenders, a former American baseball team
* Los Angeles D-Fenders, now the South Bay Lakers, an American basketball team
* Defenders Football Club, formerly Sri Lanka Army SC

## Transportation
### Aircraft

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

### Land

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

### Maritime

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

## Other uses

* Defendant or defender in Scots law for civil cases
* Defender Limited, a British Virgin Islands investment fund
* Defender Mountain, on the American-Canadian border
* Defenders (Ireland), a Roman Catholic agrarian secret society in 18th century Ireland
* Windows Defender, anti-malware software