Lear
Lear or Leir can refer to:
- Leir of Britain, a legendary king of the Britons
- King Leir, an anonymous play based on the legend of Leir of Britain, published in 1605
- King Lear, a tragedy by William Shakespeare, also based on the legend of Leir of Britain
- Learjet aircraft series
- Lear Corporation, an automotive supplier
- King Lear (baseball), the nickname of major league baseball player Charles Barnard Lear
- Lir (Irish) or Llŷr (Welsh), mythological gods of the sea
- Children of Lir, an Irish legend
- The Yiddish King Lear, an 1892 play
- Lear (play), a 1971 Edward Bond play
- Lear (opera), an opera by Aribert Reimann
- Leir (Marvel Comics), a fictional character in the Marvel universe
- The Last Lear, a 2007 Indian play
- Lear, County Londonderry, a townland in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Surname
- Lear (1808 cricketer)
- Alan W. Lear
- Amanda Lear, singer
- Andrew Lear, classicist
- Ben Lear
- Bill Lear, engineer, businessman and inventor
- Charles Barnard Lear (see King Lear (baseball))
- Edward Lear, author and artist
- Eliot Lear
- Erin Lear
- Evelyn Lear
- Frances Lear, magazine publisher
- Jonathan Lear, philosopher
- Les Lear
- Louise Lear
- Moya Lear
- Nicholas Lear, American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient
- Norman Lear, television writer and producer
- Roger Leir (1934–2014), podiatric surgeon and ufologist
- Tobias Lear
Abbreviation
- Liga de Escritores y Artistas Revolucionarios (LEAR), Mexican association of revolutionary artists and writers
- Low Energy Ion Ring (LEIR), an ion pre-accelerator of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN
- Low Energy Antiproton Ring (LEAR), the former (up to 2005) name and function of LEIR
- Rapeseed in its Low Erucic Acid Rapseed (LEAR) form
See also
- Lear's macaw, a rare bird named after Edward Lear
- LEA (disambiguation)
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