Farrar (surname)
Farrar is a surname. The principal contemporary alternate spelling is Ferrar. Other versions, including archaic ones, are Farrars, Ferrars, de Ferrars, Ferrars de Groby, de Ferriers, de Ferrières and the oldest known form, de Ferrières-Saint-Hilaire. Farrar may refer to:
- Andrew Farrar (contemporary), Australian rugby league player and coach
- Anthony Farrar-Hockley (1924–2006), British general and historian
- Ben Farrar (b. 1986), rugby league footballer for North Queensland Cowboys, Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles, and Catalans Dragons
- Cicely Jordan Farrar (circa 1600-1637), an early female settler of the Jamestown colony
- David J. Farrar, (b. 1921), British engineer
- David Farrar (actor) (1908–1995), British actor
- David Farrar (New Zealand) (b. 1967), blogger
- Edgar Howard Farrar (1849-1922), U.S. corporate lawyer and political activist
- Ernest Farrar (1885–1918), English composer
- Frank Farrar (b. 1929), American politician from South Dakota
- Frederic William Farrar (1831–1903), British cleric, schoolmaster and writer
- Fred Farrar (circa-1883–?), rugby league footballer
- Geraldine Farrar (1882–1967), American opera singer
- James Farrar (1923–1944), British writer and poet
- Janet Farrar (b. 1950), British occultist
- Jay Farrar (b. 1966), American musician
- John Farrar (b. 1946), Australian musician
- John C. Farrar (1896–1974), American editor, writer and publisher, a founder of Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- John Percy Farrar (1857–1929), English mountaineer
- Lysander Farrar (1812–1876), New York politician
- Margaret Farrar (1897–1984), American journalist and crossword puzzle editor
- Mike Farrar (contemporary), British civil servant
- Nicholas Ferrar (1592-1637), English scholar, courtier, businessman and cleric
- Rick L. Farrar (b. 1960), Louisiana attorney and politician
- Robert Farrar, British writer
- Sam Farrar (b. 1978), bassist of American rock band Phantom Planet
- Sid Farrar (1859-1935), infielder for the Philadelphia Quakers and Philadelphia Athletics
- Stewart Farrar (1916–2000), British Wiccan author, husband of Janet Farrar
- Tyler Farrar (b. 1984), American cyclist
- Vince Farrar (b. 1947), rugby league footballer
- Walchelin de Ferriers (d. 1201), English nobleman
- William Farrar (1583-1637), early English settler of Virginia (1618, aboard Neptune), husband of Cicely Farrar
Fictional characters:
- Edward Ferrars, character from Sense and Sensibility
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