Chandler Muriel Bing (born April 8, 1968) is a fictional character on the popular US television sitcom Friends (1994–2004), played by Matthew Perry.

Chandler Muriel Bing, son of erotic novelist Nora Tyler Bing (Morgan Fairchild) and cross-dressing Vegas burlesque star Charles Bing (Kathleen Turner), was the roommate of Ross Geller in college.

Throughout most of the series, Chandler was an executive specializing in statistical analysis and data reconfiguration. He later quit and found a job as a junior copywriter with an advertising agency. Chandler met Ross' sister, Monica Geller, and her friend Rachel Green while celebrating Thanksgiving at the Geller family residence. Chandler later moved to apartment #19 in New York City, across the hall from the apartment of Monica and her then roommate Phoebe Buffay. At the time, he shared the apartment with a Jewish man named Kip. Kip was a part of the group of friends until a short relationship with Monica caused tension. He got married and moved out - something which Chandler never really forgave him for. Chandler's next roommate, Joey Tribbiani, completed the group of friends. Chandler lived with Joey until season 6, when he moved in with Monica. He later married Monica at the end of season 7.

Because of the Thursday night line-up that led with Friends, Thanksgiving was always an important episode for the series. Because his most vivid memory of Thanksgiving was when he was nine-years-old and his mother and father told him they were getting divorced so his father could run off with the house-boy, he refuses to celebrate Thanksgiving in the traditional way, including a ban on all "Thanksgiving food", insisting it's not as good after seeing a Thanksgiving dinner in reverse. Instead his Thanksgiving dinner consisted of grilled-cheese sandwiches and a family size bag of Funyuns. Several Thanksgiving episodes included retellings of this backstory of Chandler's home life and his hatred of the holiday, and in Season 5, Morgan Fairchild made a special appearance playing Nora Bing about 20 years earlier, on the fateful day when Chandler found out about his parents' divorce.

Chandler's birthday is most likely April 8th. In the episode where a month-early surprise party for Rachel is thrown, Rachel says that Chandler's birthday is before hers. So his birthday would have to be after or on Rachel's party day (April 8) and before Rachel's birthday (May 5). In The One With Unagi, an episode that takes place on February 24, Monica says that Chandler's birthday is in a month and a half. A month and a half from February 24 is April 8. This would make him an Aries.