Ware is a surname. The surname likely originates from people who lived or were employed around weirs such as

Ware Ware may refer to: People * Ware (surname) * William of Ware (), English Franciscan theologian Places Canada * Fort Ware, British Columbia United Kingdom * Ware, Devon *Ware, Hertfordshire * Ware, Kent United States * Ware, Elmore County ...

Hertfordshire Hertfordshire ( or ; often abbreviated Herts) is one of the home counties in southern England. It borders Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire to the north, Essex to the east, Greater London to the south, and Buckinghamshire to the west. For govern ...

, England but could also be from "Waer" a nickname. Notable people with the surname include: *

Andre Ware Andre Trevor Ware (born July 31, 1968) is an American sports analyst and commentator and a former American football player. He was the 1989 Heisman Trophy and Davey O'Brien Award winner as a quarterback for the University of Houston. He was t ...

, American football quarterback *

Arthur Wellington Ware Arthur Wellington Ware CMG (1861 – 29 January 1927) was a brewer and List of Mayors and Lord Mayors of Adelaide, Mayor of Adelaide from 1898 to 1901 and a publican in both South Australia and Queensland. History Ware was born in Kooringa, S ...

(1861 – 29 January 1927), Mayor of

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, 1898–1901 **His brothers Thomas, George and Charles, all involved with

Walkerville Brewery Walkerville Brewery was a brewer of beer in Adelaide, South Australia, originally founded in the 1840s. The company became a co-operative, and grew by admitting hotel owners as shareholders, and absorbed smaller breweries. After several amalgamat ...

in Adelaide *

Bruce A. Ware Bruce A. Ware (born September 30, 1953) is an American theologian, former president of the Evangelical Theological Society, and a key figure in the debate over open theism. Education *A.S. (1973) Judson Baptist College *Certif. (1974) Capernwr ...

, American theological academic *

Charles Eliot Ware Charles Eliot Ware (May 7, 1814 September 3, 1887) was a prominent Boston physician and the husband of Elizabeth Cabot Lee, their daughter being Mary Lee Ware. It is to him that the Harvard Museum of Natural History's famous Glass Flowers exh ...

(1814–1887), American physician *

Charles Pickard Ware Charles Pickard Ware (1840–1921), was an American educator and music transcriber. An abolitionist, he served as a civilian administrator in the Union Army, where he was a labor superintendent of freedmen on plantations at Port Royal, South Carolin ...

(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 Franklin Christenson "Chris" Ware (born December 28, 1967) is an American cartoonist known for his ''Acme Novelty Library'' series (begun 1994) and the graphic novels ''Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth'' (2000), ''Building Stories'' (2012 ...

, American cartoonist * Christopher Lee Ware, Male fashionista, scarf designer, creator of EAD *

David S. Ware David Spencer Ware (November 7, 1949 – October 18, 2012) was an American jazz saxophone, saxophonist, composer, and bandleader. Biography Ware was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, and grew up in Scotch Plains, New Jersey. While in high sc ...

, American jazz saxophonist *

DeMarcus Ware DeMarcus Omar Ware (born July 31, 1982) is an American former football outside linebacker in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Troy University and was drafted by the Dallas Cowboys with the 11th overall pick in th ...

, American football player *

Fabian Ware Major-General Sir Fabian Arthur Goulstone Ware (17 June 186928 April 1949) was a British educator, journalist, and the founder of the Imperial War Graves Commission (IWGC), now the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC). He also served as D ...

, founder of British Imperial War Graves Commission * George Ware, American dendrologist *

Harold Ware Harold or "Hal" Ware (August 19, 1889 – August 14, 1935) was an American Marxist, regarded as one of the Communist Party's top experts on agriculture. He was employed by a federal New Deal agency in the 1930s. He is alleged to have been a S ...

, American communist * Henry Ware (disambiguation), multiple people *

Herta Ware Herta Ware (June 9, 1917 – August 15, 2005) was an American actress and activist. Early life Ware was born Herta Schwartz in Wilmington, Delaware, the daughter of Helen Ware, a musician and violin teacher, and Laszlo Schwartz, an actor wh ...

, American actress and activist *

Isaac Ware Isaac Ware (1704—1766) was an English architect and translator of Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio. Early life Ware was born to a life of poverty, living as a street urchin and working as a chimney sweep, until he was adopted by ...

(1704-1766), English architect and translator of Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio *

James Ware (disambiguation) James Ware may refer to: Medicine * James Ware (ophthalmologist) (1756–1815), English eye surgeon and Fellow of Royal Society * James Ware (surgeon) (1941–2015), British surgeon and medical educator Politics * James Britton Ware (1830–191 ...

, multiple people *

Jeff Ware (disambiguation) Jeff or Geoffrey Ware may refer to: * Jeff Ware (baseball) Jeffrey Allan Ware (born November 11, 1970) is an American former professional baseball pitcher who currently serves as the bullpen coach for the Toronto Blue Jays of Major League Baseba ...

, multiple people *

Jeremy Ware Jeremy Jon Ware (born October 23, 1975) is a Canadian former professional baseball left fielder. Career He was drafted by the Montreal Expos in 1994 Major League Baseball draft in the 25th round, 700th overall. Ware formerly played for the Edm ...

, Canadian baseball player *

Jessie Ware Jessica Lois Ware (born 15 October 1984) is an English singer, songwriter and broadcaster. Ware came to prominence following the release of her debut studio album, '' Devotion'' (2012), which peaked at number five on the UK Albums Chart, produc ...

(born 1984), British singer *

John Ware (disambiguation) John Ware may refer to: * John Ware (cowboy) (1845-1905), Canadian cowboy and rancher in pre-Confederation Alberta and originally from the United States * John Ware (TV journalist), BBC journalist * John Ware (cricketer), 19th-century athlete * Jo ...

, multiple people *

John Ware (cowboy) John Ware ( – 11 September 1905) was a Canadian cowboy who was influential in the early years of the burgeoning ranching industry in Southern Alberta. Remembered for his excellent horsemanship, he was among the first ranchers in Alberta, arriv ...

, American-Canadian cowboy *

John Ware (physician) John Ware (19 December 1795, Hingham, Massachusetts – 29 April 1864, Boston, Massachusetts) was an American physician and fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Biography John Ware graduated from Harvard College in 1813. He then b ...

(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 Kallistos Ware (born Timothy Richard Ware, 11 September 1934 – 24 August 2022) was an English bishop and theologian of the Eastern Orthodox Church. From 1982, he held the titular bishopric of Diokleia in Phrygia ( gr, Διόκλεια Φρ� ...

, Bishop of Diokleia in Phrygia, and Orthodox theologian * Keith L. Ware,

U.S. Army The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces. It is one of the eight U.S. uniformed services, and is designated as the Army of the United States in the U.S. Constitution.Article II, section 2, cl ...

Major General killed in Vietnam. *

Kevin Ware Kevin Ware Jr. (born January 3, 1993) is an American professional basketball player who last played for Club Deportivo Hispano Americano of the Liga Nacional de Básquet. He is a former player for the University of Louisville. Ware received wid ...

(born 1993), American basketball player *

Lancelot Ware Lancelot Lionel Ware OBE (5 June 191515 August 2000) was an English barrister and biochemist. He co-founded Mensa, the international society for intellectually gifted people, with the Australian barrister Roland Berrill in 1946. It was ori ...

, British barrister and MENSA founder *

Leon Ware Leon Ware (February 16, 1940 – February 23, 2017) was an American songwriter, producer, composer, and singer. Besides a solo career as a performer, Ware was best known for producing hits for other artists including Michael Jackson, Quincy ...

(1940–2017), American soul musician * Marilyn Ware (1943-2017), American diplomat *

Martha Ware Martha Ware (October 6, 1917 – August 4, 2009)Kimberly Swick Slover Retrieved on August 8, 2009. was an American district court judge in Plymouth County, Massachusetts. Early life Judge Ware was born in Weymouth, Massachusetts and raised in ...

(1917-2009), American jurist and politician *

Martyn Ware Martyn Ware (born 19 May 1956) is an English musician, composer, arranger, record producer, and music programmer. As a founding member of both the Human League and Heaven 17, Ware was partly responsible for hit songs such as "Being Boiled" and " ...

, British electronic musician *

Mary Lee Ware Mary Lee Ware, (Jan. 7, 1858 – Jan. 9, 1937) daughter of Elizabeth Cabot (Lee) Ware and Charles Eliot Ware, was born to a wealthy Bostonian family and, with her mother, was the principal sponsor of the Harvard Museum of Natural History's famou ...

(1858–1937), American philanthropist *

Mary Ware (writer) Mary Ware (, Harris; pen name, Gertrude Glenn; April 11, 1828 – May 25, 1915) was an American "Southern United States, southland" poet and prose writer. She contributed poems to various periodicals for more than fifty years. She also published ...

(1828 –1915), poet, prose writer *

Matt Ware Matthew Jesse Ware (born December 2, 1982) is a former American football safety. He was drafted in the third round with the 89th pick in the 2004 NFL Draft by the Philadelphia Eagles. He played college football at UCLA. He also played for the Ar ...

, American football player *

Michael Ware Michael Ware (born 25 March 1969) is an Australian journalist formerly with CNN and was for several years based in their Baghdad bureau. He joined CNN in May 2006, after five years with sister publication ''Time''. His last on-air appearanc ...

, 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 Opoku Ware I (born 1700–1750) was an '' Asantehene'' of Oyoko heritage, who ruled the Ashanti Empire which occupied parts of what is now Ghana. He is credited with being the "empire builder" of the Asante empire. He married and had two children n ...

, Ashanti King *

Opoku Ware II Otumfuo Opoku Ware II (born Jacob Matthew Poku, 30 November 1919 – 26 February 1999) was the 15th Asantehene. He succeeded his uncle Osei Tutu Agyeman Prempeh II on the 27th July 1970. He ruled for 29 years until his death in February 19 ...

, Ashanti King * Onzlee Ware, American politician from Virginia *

Paul Ware Paul David Ware (7 November 1970 – 17 April 2013) was an English footballer who played in the Football League for Cardiff City, Macclesfield Town, Nuneaton Borough, Rochdale, Stockport County and Stoke City. Ware began his career with local ...

, English footballer *

Rick Ware Richard S. Ware (born August 6, 1963) is a professional racecar driver and owner of Rick Ware Racing. When he was nine years old, he began racing motocross and moved up to the BMX class when he was 12. In 1983, he was named Rookie of the Year i ...

, American racing driver * Riley Ware, American football player * Rosie Ware (born 1959), Torres Strait Islander textile designer and printmaker *

Scott Ware Scott Ware (born May 5, 1983) is a former American football safety. He was signed by the Philadelphia Eagles as an undrafted free agent in 2006. He played college football at Southern California. Ware was also a member of the Indianapolis Colts ...

, American football player * Sidney William Ware, Scottish soldier *

Spencer Ware Spencer Raleigh Ware III (born November 23, 1991) is a former American football running back. He played college football at LSU, and played in the 2010 U.S. Army All-American Bowl. He was drafted in the sixth round of the 2013 NFL Draft by th ...

(born 1991), American football player *

Taylor Ware Taylor Marie Ware (born September 17, 1994) is an American singer and yodeler from Franklin, Tennessee. Before Ware knew how to yodel, she performed at a county fair at age four. Her talent was singing and playing a fiddle. When she was six ...

, 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 David Karp (born July 6, 1986) is an American webmaster, entrepreneur, and blogger, best known as the founder and former CEO of the short-form blogging platform Tumblr. Karp began his career, without having received a high school diploma, as ...

Wilbur Ware Wilbur Bernard Ware (September 8, 1923 – September 9, 1979) was an American jazz double bassist.Feather, Leonard & Gitler, Ira (2007) ''The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz'', p. 674. Oxford University Press He was a regular bassist for t ...

, American jazz bassist *

William Ware William Ware (August 3, 1797 – February 19, 1852) was an American writer and minister. Biography Ware was born in Hingham, Massachusetts on August 3, 1797. He graduated from Harvard University in 1816, studied for the Unitarian ministr ...

, American novelist *

William Robert Ware William Robert Ware (May 27, 1832 – June 9, 1915), born in Cambridge, Massachusetts into a family of the Unitarian clergy, was an American architect, author, and founder of two important American architectural schools. He received his o ...

, American architect

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