# 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 CMG (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