Handler or The Handler may refer to:

People

Occupations

  • Handler, offensive player in Ultimate (sport)
  • Animal handler, person who conducts animal training or is a wrangler
  • Handler, a sport coach, agent or promoter
  • Agent handling, person who manages a spy or agent of organizations in conflict such as nations and even groups and gangs involved in crusades, jihad, mass organized conversion rackets, etc.
  • Baggage handler, a person who loads and unloads baggage and other cargo for transport via aircraft
  • Mail handler, a postal worker
  • Aircraft handler, a branch of the Fleet Air Arm/Royal Navy
  • Garter handler, an old term for a pimp
  • Political handler, an advisor and supporter of a politician
  • Händler, a merchant in German

People named Handler

  • Carole Handler, American attorney
  • Chelsea Handler, American comedian and talk show host
  • Daniel Handler, American author and musician
  • Elliot Handler, American inventor and business magnate
  • Evan Handler, American actor
  • Evelyn Handler, 17th president of the University of New Hampshire
  • Kenneth Handler, American screenwriter, director, and film composer
  • Phil Handler, American football player and coach
  • Rebecca Handler, American/Japanese actress
  • Rich Handler, American businessman
  • Ruth Handler, American businesswoman

People named Händler

  • Andrea Händler, Austrian actress and cabaret artist
  • Jack Martin Händler, Slovak conductor and violinist
  • Wolfgang Händler, German computer scientist

Computing

  • A20 handler, the IBM PC memory manager software controlling access to the High Memory Area
  • Event handler, a function for processing a programming event
  • Exception handling, a function for handling a software exception
  • Interrupt handler, a function for processing an interrupt
  • Signal handler, a function for handling a signal sent to a process

Machines

  • Air handler, a device used as part of an HVAC (Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning) system
  • Handler, a robotic device used to automatically place a device under test into an automatic test equipment system
  • Seismic Handler, an interactive analysis program for preferably continuous waveform data
  • Telescopic handler, a machine widely used in agriculture and industry

Arts and entertainment

  • "The Handler", a short story by Ray Bradbury
  • Handler (play), by Robert Schenkkan
  • The Handler (Har Mar Superstar album), the third CD from American singer Har Mar Superstar
  • Handler, a character class in Dragonlance
  • The Handler (TV series)
  • "The Handler", a song by British rock-band Muse on their 2015 album Drones (Muse album)

See also

  • Callback (computer programming), for handling a condition
  • Hendler
  • Wrangler (disambiguation)