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

Arts and entertainment

Film and television

* ''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 Defender" (''Studio One''), a 1957 episode of ''Studio One'' * ''The Defenders'' (1961 TV series), an American courtroom drama * ''The Defenders'' (2010 TV series), an American legal comedy-drama * '' The Defender (2021 TV series)'', a Czech crime drama television series * ''The Defenders'' (miniseries), an American Marvel web TV series *''

The Defenders Saga Marvel's Netflix television series are a set of interconnected American television series created for the streaming service Netflix, based on characters that appear in publications by Marvel Comics. Produced by Marvel Television and ABC Studios ...

'', the Marvel-Netflix 2010s TV show universe

Gaming

* Defender (card player), a player who plays against the declarer * ''Defender'' (1981 video game) ** ''Defender'' (2002 video game), a remake

Literature

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

Music

* ''Defender'' (album), a 1987 album by Rory Gallagher * "Defender" (Peter Andre song), 2010 * "Defender" (Gabriella Cilmi song), 2010 * "The Defender", a 1982 song by Buckner & Garcia from '' Pac-Man Fever'' * "Defender", a 1987 song by Manowar from '' Fighting the World'' * ''The Defenders'' (ballet), a 2007 ballet by William Forsythe * ''The Defender'' (musical), a 1902 musical

Sports

* Defenders Football Club, formerly Sri Lanka Army SC * Connecticut Defenders, a former American baseball team *

Los Angeles D-Fenders LOS, or Los, or LoS may refer to: Science and technology * Length of stay, the duration of a single episode of hospitalisation * Level of service, a measure used by traffic engineers * Level of significance, a measure of statistical significance ...

, now the South Bay Lakers, an American basketball team * Defender, the America's Cup yacht representing the club that currently holds the Cup

Transportation

Aircraft

* Britten-Norman Defender, a multi-role utility transport aircraft * McDonnell Douglas MD 500 Defender, a light military helicopter *

Fletcher FD-25 Defender The Fletcher FD-25 Defender was a light ground-attack aircraft developed in the United States in the early 1950s. Design and development Designed by John Thorp, the Defender was a conventional low-wing cantilever monoplane with fixed tailwheel un ...

, a 1950s American light ground-attack aircraft

Land

* Land Rover Defender, a British 4×4 off-road vehicle **

Land Rover Defender (L663) The Land Rover Defender is a four-wheel-drive off-road SUV from British automotive company Jaguar Land Rover. The car was launched on 10 September 2019 at the Frankfurt Motor Show. It is significant for being the first all-new version of the Def ...

, from 2019

Maritime

* ''Defender'' (1895 yacht), the 1895 America's Cup winner * ''Defender'' (1982 yacht), a 12-metre class yacht * , 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 The colonial service ''Defender''-class torpedo boats were designed by Thornycroft & Company for the defence of New Zealand, built at Chiswick in 1883 and shipped to New Zealand. They were quickly obsolete and were left to deteriorate ''in situ'' ...

(1883)

Other uses

* Defenders (Ireland), a Roman Catholic agrarian secret society in 18th century Ireland *

Defender Limited Defender Limited is an investment fund. It was incorporated in the British Virgin Islands in 2007. Defender funneled clients' funds to Bernard Madoff's firm as part of a Ponzi scheme run by Madoff. Madoff was arrested in December 2008, and pleaded ...

, a British Virgin Islands investment fund * Defender Mountain, on the American-Canadian border * Windows Defender, anti-malware software *

Defendant In court proceedings, a defendant is a person or object who is the party either accused of committing a crime in criminal prosecution or against whom some type of civil relief is being sought in a civil case. Terminology varies from one jurisdic ...

or defender in Scots law for civil cases