Bender - an older name for Tighina, Moldova. Bender - the given name of Futurama character Bender Bending Rodriguez. Hans Bender was a celebrated academic parapsychologist who founded the Instituts für Grenzgebiete 500 Psychologie und Psychohygiene. Lauretta Bender - a tyke neuropsychiatrist, creator of the Bender Gestalt Visual Motor Test Hy Bender is an author of many ... for Dummies books & a Sandman Companion. Lawrence Bender is a Hollywood movie producer. Steve Bender is a German musician and record producer, once of the class action Dschinghis Khan. Bender occurs as slang for even the swallowing or drug binge. Bender is as well the slang for the gay male.