Brier

Briar, Briars, Brier, or Briers may refer to:


 * Briar, or brier, common name for a number of unrelated thorny plants that form thickets, including species in the genera Rosa (Rose), Rubus, and Smilax

People and characters

 * Brier (surname)
 * Briers, a surname
 * Briars (surname)

Fictional characters

 * Briar Moss, from Tamora Pierce's Circle of Magic and Circle Opens quartets
 * Briar Cudgeon, in Artemis Fowl
 * Briar, the evil sister of Rose in Bone (comics)
 * Briar, in the cartoon series Boonie Bears
 * Briar, a playable character in the video game League of Legends
 * Briar, a character in the video game Pokémon Scarlet and Violet's downloadable content expansion pack The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero

Places

 * Briar, Missouri, U.S.
 * Briar, Texas, U.S.
 * Briars Historic Park, Mount Martha, Victoria, Australia
 * The Briars (Georgina), Ontario, Canada, a lakeside resort
 * Brier, Washington, U.S.
 * Briers, Mississippi,, U.S., a ghost town
 * Brier Island, Nova Scotia, Canada
 * Briar Creek (disambiguation), or Brier Creek
 * Briar Hill (disambiguation)
 * Brier Hill (disambiguation)

Facilities and structures

 * Briars, Saint Helena, a small pavilion in which Napoleon Bonaparte stayed
 * The Briars (Natchez, Mississippi), U.S., a historic house
 * The Briars, Wahroonga, Sydney, Australia, a historic house

Other uses

 * Briar root, wood from Erica arborea, used for making smoking pipes
 * Briar, a type of tobacco pipe
 * The Brier, a bonspiel, the Canadian men's curling championship; variously called over the years the "MacDonald Tobacco Brier", "Labatt Brier", "Nokia Brier", "Tim Horton's Brier", "Montana's Bar and Grill Brier"
 * Briar (software), an open-source software communication technology