Ware (surname)

Ware is a surname. The surname likely originates from people who lived or were employed around weirs such as Ware in Hertfordshire, England but could also be from "Waer" a nickname. Notable people with the surname include:


 * Amy Robbins Ware, American author, world court worker
 * Andre Ware, American football quarterback
 * Arthur Wellington Ware (1861 – 29 January 1927), Mayor of Adelaide, South Australia, 1898–1901
 * Bruce A. Ware, American theological academic
 * Charles Eliot Ware (1814–1887), American physician
 * Charles Pickard Ware (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, American cartoonist
 * Christopher Lee Ware, Male fashionista, scarf designer, creator of EAD
 * David S. Ware, American jazz saxophonist
 * DeMarcus Ware, American football player
 * Edmund Ware (sculptor) (1883-1960), British sculptor and teacher
 * Fabian Ware, founder of British Imperial War Graves Commission
 * George Ware, American dendrologist
 * Harold Ware, American communist
 * Henry Ware (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Herta Ware, American actress and activist
 * Isaac Ware (1704-1766), English architect and translator of Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio
 * James Ware (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Jeff Ware (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Jeremy Ware, Canadian baseball player
 * Jessie Ware (born 1984), British singer


 * John Ware (disambiguation), multiple people
 * John Ware (cowboy), American-Canadian cowboy
 * John Ware (physician) (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 (1934–2022), Metropolitan of Diokleia in Phrygia, an Orthodox assistant bishop in the UK
 * Keith L. Ware, U.S. Army Major General killed in Vietnam
 * Kel'el Ware (born 2004), American basketball player
 * Kevin Ware (born 1993), American basketball player
 * Lancelot Ware, British barrister and MENSA founder
 * Leon Ware (1940–2017), American soul musician
 * Marilyn Ware (1943-2017), American diplomat
 * Martha Ware (1917-2009), American jurist and politician
 * Martyn Ware, British electronic musician
 * Mary Lee Ware (1858–1937), American philanthropist
 * Mary Ware (writer) (1828 –1915), poet, prose writer
 * Matt Ware, American football player
 * Michael Ware, 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, Ashanti King
 * Opoku Ware II, Ashanti King
 * Onzlee Ware, American politician from Virginia
 * Paul Ware, English footballer
 * Rick Ware, American racing driver
 * Riley Ware, American football player
 * Rosie Ware (born 1959), Torres Strait Islander textile designer and printmaker
 * Scott Ware, American football player
 * Sidney William Ware, Scottish soldier
 * Spencer Ware (born 1991), American football player
 * Taylor Ware, 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
 * Wilbur Ware, American jazz bassist
 * William Ware, American novelist
 * William Robert Ware, American architect