One Lionel Bender is a British author of more than 60 children's illustrated information books, and is the Editorial Partner of book creation house Bender Richardson White. He is also a member of the British Minigolf Association, representing his country in European and World Championship Minigolf Sport events. He is a partner of UrbanCrazy, a company that hires out and sells portable minigolf courses.

Another M. Lionel Bender is an American author and co-author of several books, publications and essays regarding African languages. He is currently a linguistics professor at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

Among other works his best known are "Languages of Wadai-Darfur", "Language in Ethiopia", "Preliminary Gaam-English-Gaam Dictionary" and the "Berta Lexicon".

See also

• Children's Non-Fiction / Nonfiction Authors