Ayres (surname)

Ayres is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:


 * Agnes Ayres (1898–1940), American silent film actor
 * Alice Ayres (1859–1885), English nursemaid, honored for rescuing her three nieces from a burning building at the cost of her own life
 * Anne Ayres (1816–1886), American Episcopalian nun
 * Benjamin Ayres (born 1977) an actor, director, photographer
 * Benjamin Ayres (instrument maker) (died c. 1775), an English instrument maker
 * Bill Ayres, American radio talk show host, co-founder and executive director of World Hunger Year
 * Caroline Ayres (born 1981), English basketball player
 * Christopher Ayres (1965–2021), American voice actor
 * Clara Ayres (1880–1917), American nurse during the First World War
 * Clarence Edwin Ayres (1891–1972), American economist
 * David Ayres (born 1977), Canadian ice hockey goaltender
 * David Ayres (soldier) (1841–1916), Union Army Medal of Honor recipient
 * Ed Ayres (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Gary Ayres (born 1960), Australian rules footballer and coach
 * Gillian Ayres (1930–2018), British painter
 * Greg Ayres (born 1968), American voice actor
 * Harry Ayres (footballer) (1920–2002), British footballer
 * Harry Ayres (mountaineer) (1912–1987), New Zealand guide and mountaineer
 * Helen Ayres, Australian violinist, member of the Seraphim Trio
 * Ian Ayres (born 1959), American professor at Yale Law School and Yale School of Management
 * Ian Ayres (filmmaker), American filmmaker
 * João Maria Correia Ayres de Campos, 1st Count of Ameal (1847–1920), Portuguese humanist, politician and art-collector
 * José Márcio Ayres (1954–2003), Brazilian primatologist and conservationist
 * Leonard Porter Ayres (1879–1946), American statistician
 * Lew Ayres (1908–1996), American actor
 * Lewis Ayres, lay Catholic theologian
 * Mark Ayres (born 1961), British electronic musician, composer & audio engineer
 * Pam Ayres (born 1947), British writer of humorous poetry
 * Philip Ayres (poet) (1638–1712), English poet
 * Philip Burnard Ayres, British physician and botanist
 * Richard Ayres (born 1965), British composer
 * Robert Ayres (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Romeyn B. Ayres (1825–1888), Union general in the American Civil War
 * Rosalind Ayres (born 1946), British actress
 * Stuart Ayres (born 1980), Australian politician
 * Sydney Ayres (1879–1916), American silent film actor and director
 * Thomas Ayres (artist) (1816–1858), California gold rush-era artist
 * Thomas Ayres (ornithologist) (1828–1913), British-born South African ornithologist
 * Thomas E. Ayres (born 1962), American military lawyer
 * Venâncio de Oliveira Ayres (1841–1885) Brazilian Journalist
 * Vernon Ayres (1908–1968), Canadian ice hockey player
 * William Orville Ayres (1817–1887), American physician and ichthyologist