Vares (surname)

Vares is a surname. In the Estonian language and some dialects of Finnish the word literally means "raven". Notable people with the surname include:
 * Johannes Vares (1890–1946), Estonian politician
 * Maria Eulália Vares, Brazilian mathematical statistician and probability theorist
 * Sergo Vares (born 1982), Estonian actor
 * Tõnis Vares (1859–1925), Estonian politician

Fictional characters

 * Jussi Vares, fictional Finnish private detective from the novel series Vares by Reijo Mäki and films base on the novels