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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 (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 (sculptor) (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)
