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A bear is a large mammal in the family Ursidae of the order Carnivora.

Bear may also refer to:

• Bear (ship), a famous exploration ship
• The Bears (band), a band featuring Adrian Belew
• Bear community, a subculture of the gay community consisting of large, hairy, and usually bearded, men
• Bear market, one of several market trends referring to a cyclical downturn in a stock market
• BEAR (cipher), a block cipher designed by Ross Anderson and Eli Biham
• The Bear (film), also known as L'Ours, a 1988 film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud
• Tupolev Tu-95, a Soviet bomber aircraft given the NATO reporting name Bear

People

• Bear Cut Ear, a chief of the Crow tribe
• Greg Bear, an american science fiction author
• Bear Bryant, an American college football player
• Bear Grylls, youngest Briton to climb Mount Everest
• Bear Hunter (d.1863), a Shoshone chief
• Bear's Rib, a Hunkpapa Sioux chief
• Blackbear Bosin (1921-1980), a Comanche-Kiowa artist and painter
• Conquering Bear (d.1854), a Brulé Sioux leader
• Crazy Bear (Assiniboine chief), an Assiniboine chief
• Hollow Horn Bear (c.1850–1913), a Brulé Sioux leader
• Mato-tope (c.1795–1837), chief of the Mandan tribe, also known as Four Bears
• George Halas, founder of the Chicago Bears, known as Papa Bear
• Bear McCreary, a classically trained musician and composer known for his work on the reimagined Battlestar Galactica
• Kicking Bear (1846–1904), a Lakota chief
• Lean Bear (1813–1864), a Cheyenne chief
• Satanta (White Bear) (d.1878), a Kiowa war leader who was also known as White Bear
• Sitting Bear (c.1830–1871), a Kiowa warrior and medicine man
• Owsley Stanley, nicknamed Bear, the largest LSD manufacturer of the 1960s and soundman for the Grateful Dead
• Standing Bear (c.1834–1908), a chief of the Ponca tribe
• Ten Bears (1792-1873), a Comanche leader
• Ray Young Bear, a Meskwaki poet
• Yonaguska (d.1839), a Cherokee leader also known as Drowning Bear

Literature

• Bear, a character from The Railway Series books by Rev.W.Awdry
• Bear (comic book), an alternative comic book by Jamie Smart
• The Bear (opera), an opera by William Walton
• The Bear, a play by Anton Chekhov

Companies

• Bear Inn, a popular name for British public houses
  • Bear Inn, Oxford a particularly historic British public house
• CKQB-FM, a radio station in Ottawa whose on-air brand name is The Bear
• CFBR-FM, a radio station in Edmonton, Alberta with the brand name The Bear

Sports teams

• Baylor Bears, sports teams of Baylor University
• California Golden Bears, sports teams of the University of California, Berkeley
• Chicago Bears, an American football team
• Alberta Golden Bears, the men's teams at the University of Alberta
• Missouri State Bears, sports teams of the Missouri State University
• Central Arkansas Bears, the men's teams of the University of Central Arkansas
• NYIT Bears, the sports teams of the New York Institute of Technology
• University of Northern Colorado athletics

Other

• Bear, Delaware, an unincorporated community in the United States
• Bear, a rank in the Cub Scouts (Boy Scouts of America)
• Bear (novel), a novel by Marian Engel
• Microsoft Bear, an unofficial mascot hidden in Windows 3.1 and Windows 95
• BEAR, a particle beam weapon developed as part of the Strategic Defense Initiative
• BEAR, Battlefield Extraction and Retrieval Robot

See also

• Bear Creek (disambiguation)
• Big Bear (disambiguation)
• Celebrity bears
• List of fictional bears
• List of historical bears

• Disambiguation pages