A tinker was originally an itinerant tinsmith, who mended household utensils. Tinker, Tinker's, or Tinkers are proper nouns that may refer to any of several things:

Airport

• Michigan

*Wend Valley Airport also known as "Tinkerville Airport" in Eaton County

• Oklahoma

*Tinker Air Force Base, located in Oklahoma County

Bridge

• Tinkers Creek Aqueduct bridging the Ohio and Erie Canal over Tinkers Creek (Cuyahoga River) in Ohio

Fiction

• Tinker, a novel by Wen Spencer
• Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, a novel by John Lecarré
• Tinker, orphaned street-wise assistant to Sexton Blake
• Tinker, a fictional character in the British TV series Lovejoy
• Tinkers, the main protagonists of Vernor Vinge's book The Peace War
• Tinkers or Tuatha'an, the pacifist Travelling People in The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan

People

• Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, a 1969 Supreme Court decision concerning school pupils' First Amendment rights
• Major General Clarence L. Tinker, U.S. Army Air Corps
• Joe Tinker, a Major League Baseball player
• Tinker, a travelling metalsmith
• Irish Traveller, a nomadic or itinerant people of Irish origin

Software

• TINKER, a molecular dynamics software application and force field
• Microsoft Tinker, a puzzle game for Windows Vista

Stream

• Idaho

*Big Tinker Creek in Idaho County

*Little Tinker Creek in Idaho County

• Kentucky

*Left Fork Tinker Fork in Floyd County

*Right Fork Tinker Fork in Floyd County

*Tinker Fork in Floyd County

*Tinker Run in Hardin County

• Maine

*Tinker Brook in Hancock County

• Maryland

*Tinkers Creek in Prince George's County

• Massachusetts

*Tinkerville Brook in Worcester County

• New Hampshire

*Tinker Brook in Coos County

• New Jersey

*Tinkers Branch in Camden County

• North Carolina

*Tinkers Creek in Davidson County

• Ohio

*Tinker Creek in Trumbull County

*Tinkers Creek (Cuyahoga River) in Cuyahoga, Summit, and Portage

• Oklahoma

*Tinker Creek in Oklahoma County

• Oregon

*Tinker Creek in Grant County

• Pennsylvania

*Tinker Creek in Susquehanna County

*Tinker Run in Clearfield County

*Tinkers Run in Westmoreland County

*Tinkertown Run in McKean County

• Rhode Island

*Tinkerville Brook in Providence County

• South Carolina

(Tinker Creek in Aiken County

*Tinker Creek in Union County

*Tinkers Creek in Chester County

• Tennessee

*Tinker Branch in Cocke County

*Tinker Branch in Polk County

• Vermont

*Tinker Brook in Windsor County

• Virginia

*Tinker Creek in Roanoke County

See also

• Gypsy Vanner horse, also known as the Irish Tinker horse
• List of rivers of Ohio