Briar, Briars, Brier, or Briers may refer to:

  • Briar, or brier, common name for a number of unrelated thorny plants that form thickets, including species in the genera Rosa (Rose), Rubus, and Smilax

People and characters

  • Brier (surname)
  • Briers, a surname
  • Briar (surname)
  • Briars (surname)
  • Briar Blush, an American drag performer.

Fictional characters

  • Briar, a playable character in the video game League of Legends
  • Briar, a character in the video game Pokémon Scarlet and Violet's downloadable content expansion pack The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero
  • Briar, the evil sister of Rose in Bone (comics)
  • Briar, in the cartoon series Boonie Bears
  • Briar Beauty, the daughter of Sleeping Beauty from the fashion doll franchise Ever After High
  • Briar Cudgeon, in Artemis Fowl
  • Briar Moss, from Tamora Pierce's Circle of Magic and Circle Opens quartets
  • Briar Raleigh, a Marvel Comics character associated with Magneto
  • Briar Rose, a name associated with Sleeping Beauty, in some (including Brothers Grimm) versions of the story

Places

  • Briar, Missouri, U.S.
  • Briar, Texas, U.S.
  • Briars Historic Park, Mount Martha, Victoria, Australia
  • The Briars (Georgina), Ontario, Canada, a lakeside resort
  • Brier, Washington, U.S.
  • Briers, Mississippi, U.S., a ghost town
  • Brier Island, Nova Scotia, Canada
  • Briar Creek (disambiguation), or Brier Creek
  • Briar Hill (disambiguation)
  • Brier Hill (disambiguation)

Facilities and structures

  • Briars, Saint Helena, a small pavilion in which Napoleon Bonaparte stayed
  • The Briars (Natchez, Mississippi), U.S., a historic house
  • The Briars, Wahroonga, Sydney, Australia, a historic house

Other uses

  • Briar root, wood from Erica arborea, used for making smoking pipes
  • Briar, a type of tobacco pipe
  • The Brier, a bonspiel, the Canadian men's curling championship
  • Briar (software), an open-source software communication technology
  • Brier score, a metric to assess the predictive quality of a model

See also

  • Briar Patch (disambiguation)
  • Briar Rose (disambiguation)
  • Brière (disambiguation)
  • Blackbriar (disambiguation)
  • Greenbrier (disambiguation)
  • The Briar King, a 2003 novel by Greg Keyes
  • Brier score, a probability-related measure