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)