Bears in books

• Baloo from The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
• the Berenstain Bears
• Brer Bear , from the Uncle Remus stories by Joel Chandler Harris
• Paddington Bear
• the Three Bears from Goldilocks and the Three Bears
• Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne
• Rupert the Bear from the childrens' books by Mary Tourtel (also became featured in comic strips and a TV series)
• Little Bear by Maurice Sendak
• Crow of the Bear Clan , barbarian comic book bear
• Shardik, the ursine protagonist of Richard Adams' novel of the same name
• Shardik, a 70 feet tall cyborg bear from Stephen King's The Wastelands, named after the above
• Iorek Byrnison, the armoured bear in Philip Pullman's trilogy His Dark Materials

Bears in plays

• The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare famously includes the stage direction "Exit, pursued by a bear".

Animated bears

• Akakabuto is the demented, one-eyed (later giant) Bear and arch-nemesis of Silver Fang in the anime Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin. His name means literally red helmet, the name is derived from the fur atop his head which is completely red.
• Barney Bear from the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer theatrical cartoons of the 1940s and 1950s.
• Bears (several characters) in the Walt Disney Studios animated film Brother Bear
• Bear, from Franklin
• Blinky Bill, an animated koala from the eponymously named Australian series (not actually a bear, but sufficiently teddy-like to warrant inclusion)
• Blubber, Luke's racing partner in Hanna-Barbera's Wacky Races
• Brother Bear, title character from the 2003 Disney animated film
• the Buddy Bears, recurring children's show bears who promote conformity and collectivism on Garfield and Friends
• the Care Bears
• Eddy and the Bear
• the Gummi Bears
• Help! It's The Hair Bear Bunch: Hanna-Barbera
• Humphrey Bear , a Walt Disney character appearing in 1950s shorts, usually harassing Donald Duck
• Kissy Fur - Animated series in the United States from the 1980s about two run away circus bears that now live in the Bayou.
• Little Bear
• Little John was a bear in Disney's version of Robin Hood
• Nameless bear from Harvey Birdman
• The Three Bears, Looney Tunes characters
• unnamed sailor bear who catches the magic bed in Bedknobs and Broomsticks
• Yogi Bear and his pal Boo Boo, created by Hanna-Barbera

Bears in film

• Archie in Dr. Dolittle 2
• Adult male and cub from L' Ours
• The relentless, man-eating bear in the 1997 film, The Edge

Puppet bears

• Baby Bear in Sesame Street
• Basil the Bear on Sesame Park
• Bear, Ojo, and Ursa from Bear in the Big Blue House
• Fozzie Bear from The Muppet Show
• Humphrey B. Bear
• Sooty, Cousin Scampy and Soo (a panda bear)

Bears in advertising

• Smokey Bear, mascot of the U.S. Forest Service. He is also only semi-fictional, as he was based on a real orphaned bear cub also named Smokey.
• George, the cool, stylish bear in British Hofmeister Beer commercials of the 1970s. "For great lager, follow the bear".
• the Hamm's Beer bear
• the ICEE Polar Bear, an animated mascot for The ICEE Company, as seen on TV ads.
• Talking polar bear from British Fox's Glacier Mint commercials
• Talking polar bear from British Cresta soft drink commercials of the 1970s
• Polar bears from international Coca-Cola commercials
• the Labatt's Blue bear
• Grizzly bears in ads for Charmin toilet paper
• "There's a bear in the woods. . ." Presumably representing the Soviet Union, this bear appeared in Ronald Reagan's campaign advertising.
• Snuggles , the fabric softener bear
• Sugar Bear, mascot for General Foods Corporation's Post Sugar Crisp cereal

Bears in poetry

• Fuzzy wuzzy

was a bear

Fuzzy wuzzy had no hair

So Fuzzy wuzzy wasn't fuzzy, was he.

• Bulgy

Algy saw the bear.

The bear saw Algy.

The bear was bulgy.

The bulge was Algy.

Bears on television

• Bear, the title character from the Disney television program Bear in the Big Blue House
• Gentle Ben, grizzly Bear companion to "Grizzly Adams"
• Buttons, the womanizing teddy bear on "Puppets Who Kill"

Teddy bears

• Mister Woppit, mascot of Donald Campbell, breaker of speed-records killed on Lake Coniston in 1967.
• Bear, the mascot of the Windows 3.1 (and later Windows 95) team
• Teddy Ruxpin, the popular animatronic teddy bear from the 1980's.
• Pooky,teddy bear from the comic strip Garfield.
• Winnie the Pooh, teddy bear of Christopher Robin Milne, son of A.A. Milne.
• Corduroy , Don Freeman's classic teddy character

Miscellaneous

• Gladly, the Cross-Eyed Bear, a mondegreen created from the misheard lyrics of a hymn (Gladly, the Cross I'd bear. . .). Used as the name of Baby Grumpling's teddy bear in British comic strip The Perishers.
• Drop Bear, an urban mythical marsupial in Australia said to be similar to the Koala Bear
• Ursa Major and Ursa Minor the two bear constellations, sometimes also referred to as the big dipper, or the drinking gourd.
• "Zeke and Zed and Ted and Fred, and a bear named Tennessee," the audio-animatronic bears of the Country Bear Jamboree at Disney theme parks

See also

• List of fictional animals
• List of historical bears