Lear

Lear or Leir may refer to:

Acronyms

 * Liga de Escritores y Artistas Revolucionarios, a Mexican association of revolutionary artists and writers
 * Low Energy Ion Ring, an ion pre-accelerator of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN
 * Low Energy Antiproton Ring, the former name and function of the Low Energy Ion Ring
 * Rapeseed, a member of the family Brassicaceae cultivated for its oil-rich seed

Arts and entertainment

 * King Lear, a tragedy by William Shakespeare based on the legend of Leir of Britain
 * King Leir, an anonymous 1594 play based on the legend of Leir of Britain
 * Lear (play), a 1971 Edward Bond play
 * Lear (opera), a 1978 opera by Aribert Reimann
 * The Last Lear, a 2007 Indian play
 * The Lears, a 2017 American comedy-drama film
 * The Yiddish King Lear, an 1892 play
 * Lear's (1988–1994), a monthly women's magazine

People

 * Leir of Britain, a legendary king of the Britons
 * Lear (1808 cricketer)

Surname

 * Alan W. Lear (1953–2008), Scottish writer of science fiction and horror
 * Amanda Lear, French singer
 * Andrew Lear (born 1958), American classicist
 * Ben Lear (1879–1966), United States Army general
 * Beth Lear, American politician
 * Bill Lear (1902–1978), American engineer, businessman and inventor
 * Edward Lear (1812–1888), English author and artist
 * Eliot Lear, member of the Internet Engineering Task Force
 * Evelyn Lear (1926–2012), American operatic soprano
 * Frances Lear (1923–1996), American magazine publisher
 * Jonathan Lear (born 1948), philosopher
 * Les Lear (1918–1979), National (U.S.) and Canadian Football League player and coach
 * Louise Lear (born 1967), BBC Weather presenter
 * Moya Lear (1915–2001), an American businesswoman
 * Nicholas Lear, American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient
 * Norman Lear (1922–2023), American television writer and producer
 * Peter Lear (disambiguation)
 * Roger Leir (1934–2014), American podiatric surgeon and ufologist
 * Tobias Lear (1762–1816), personal secretary to President George Washington
 * Thomas Lear (disambiguation)

Other uses

 * Lear Corporation, an American automotive supplier
 * LearAvia Lear Fan, an American turboprop business aircraft designed in the 1970s
 * Learjet, an aircraft series
 * Leir (Marvel Comics), a fictional character in the Marvel universe
 * Lear, County Londonderry, a townland in Cumber Upper, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland
 * Lear, a thickened sauce used in Battalia pie and other dishes in English Early Modern cooking
 * Lear, a character in Pokémon Masters EX