Ware (surname)

Ware is a surname. The surname likely originates from people who lived or were employed around weirs such as Ware in Hertfordshire, England but could also be from "Waer" a nickname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Amy Robbins Ware, American author, world court worker
• Andre Ware, American football quarterback
• Arthur Wellington Ware CMG (1861 – 29 January 1927), Mayor of Adelaide, South Australia, 1898–1901
• Bruce A. Ware, American theological academic
• Charles Eliot Ware (1814–1887), American physician
• Charles Pickard Ware (1849–1921), American educator and folk music transcriber
• Charles R. Ware, American naval officer
• Charlie Ware (1900-1984), Irish hurler
• Charlie Ware (1933-2013), Irish hurler
• Caroline F. Ware, American historian and social scientist
• Chris Ware, American cartoonist
• Christopher Lee Ware, Male fashionista, scarf designer, creator of EAD
• David S. Ware, American jazz saxophonist
• DeMarcus Ware, American football player
• Edmund Ware (1883-1960), British sculptor and teacher
• Fabian Ware, founder of British Imperial War Graves Commission
• George Ware, American dendrologist
• Harold Ware, American communist
• Henry Ware (disambiguation), multiple people
• Herta Ware, American actress and activist
• Isaac Ware (1704-1766), English architect and translator of Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio
• James Ware (disambiguation), multiple people
• Jeff Ware (disambiguation), multiple people
• Jeremy Ware, Canadian baseball player
• Jessie Ware (born 1984), British singer
• John Ware (disambiguation), multiple people
• John Ware (cowboy), American-Canadian cowboy
• John Ware (physician) (1795–1864), American physician and professor of medicine
• John H. Ware, III, a US Representative from Pennsylvania
• Jylan Ware (born 1993), American football player
• Kallistos Ware (1934–2022), Metropolitan of Diokleia in Phrygia, an Orthodox assistant bishop in the UK
• Keith L. Ware, U.S. Army Major General killed in Vietnam
• Kel'el Ware (born 2004), American basketball player
• Kevin Ware (born 1993), American basketball player
• Lancelot Ware, British barrister and MENSA founder
• Leon Ware (1940–2017), American soul musician
• Marilyn Ware (1943-2017), American diplomat
• Martha Ware (1917-2009), American jurist and politician
• Martyn Ware, British electronic musician
• Mary Lee Ware (1858–1937), American philanthropist
• Mary Ware (writer) (1828 –1915), poet, prose writer
• Matt Ware, American football player
• Michael Ware, Australian journalist
• Mike Ware (ice hockey), Canadian ice hockey player
• Mike Ware (photographer), chemist and alternative-process photographer
• Nicholas Ware, American politician
• Opoku Ware I, Ashanti King
• Opoku Ware II, Ashanti King
• Onzlee Ware, American politician from Virginia
• Paul Ware, English footballer
• Rick Ware, American racing driver
• Riley Ware, American football player
• Rosie Ware (born 1959), Torres Strait Islander textile designer and printmaker
• Scott Ware, American football player
• Sidney William Ware, Scottish soldier
• Spencer Ware (born 1991), American football player
• Taylor Ware, American singer and yodeler
• Teyon Ware, American amateur wrestler
• Theron Ware, fictional character from The Damnation of Theron Ware
• Tim Ware, American musician
• Tom Mauchahty-Ware, Native American musician
• Tommy Ware (1885–1915), English footballer
• Wallace Ware, a pseudonym used by novelist and screenwriter David Karp
• Wilbur Ware, American jazz bassist
• William Ware, American novelist
• William Robert Ware, American architect

See also

• Buzzy Wares (1886–1964), American baseball player
• Eddie Wares (1915–1992), Canadian hockey player
• Shamsul Wares (born 1946), Bangladeshi architect
• Wear (surname)