Lear or Leir may refer to:

Acronyms

  • Liga de Escritores y Artistas Revolucionarios, a Mexican association of revolutionary artists and writers
  • Low Energy Ion Ring, an ion pre-accelerator of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN
  • Low Energy Antiproton Ring, the former name and function of the Low Energy Ion Ring
  • Rapeseed, a member of the family Brassicaceae cultivated for its oil-rich seed

Arts and entertainment

  • King Lear, a tragedy by William Shakespeare based on the legend of Leir of Britain
  • King Leir, an anonymous 1594 play based on the legend of Leir of Britain
  • Lear (play), a 1971 Edward Bond play
  • Lear (opera), a 1978 opera by Aribert Reimann
  • The Last Lear, a 2007 Indian play
  • The Lears, a 2017 American comedy-drama film
  • The Yiddish King Lear, an 1892 play
  • Lear's (1988–1994), a monthly women's magazine

People

  • Leir of Britain, a legendary king of the Britons
  • Lear (1808 cricketer)

Surname

  • Alan W. Lear (1953–2008), Scottish writer of science fiction and horror
  • Amanda Lear, French singer
  • Andrew Lear (born 1958), American classicist
  • Ben Lear (1879–1966), United States Army general
  • Beth Lear, American politician
  • Bill Lear (1902–1978), American engineer, businessman and inventor
  • Edward Lear (1812–1888), English author and artist
  • Eliot Lear, member of the Internet Engineering Task Force
  • Evelyn Lear (1926–2012), American operatic soprano
  • Frances Lear (1923–1996), American magazine publisher
  • Jonathan Lear (1948–2025), American philosopher and psychoanalyst
  • Les Lear (1918–1979), National (U.S.) and Canadian Football League player and coach
  • Louise Lear (born 1967), BBC Weather presenter
  • Moya Lear (1915–2001), American businesswoman
  • Nicholas Lear (c.1826–1902), American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient
  • Norman Lear (1922–2023), American television writer and producer
  • Peter Lear (disambiguation)
  • Roger Leir (1934–2014), American podiatric surgeon and ufologist
  • Thomas Lear (disambiguation)
  • Tobias Lear (1762–1816), personal secretary to President George Washington

Other uses

  • Lear Corporation, an American automotive supplier
  • LearAvia Lear Fan, an American turboprop business aircraft designed in the 1970s
  • Learjet, an aircraft series
  • Leir (Marvel Comics), a fictional character in the Marvel universe
  • Lear (crater), a crater on Oberon, a moon of Uranus
  • Lear, County Londonderry, a townland in Cumber Upper, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland
  • Lear, a thickened sauce used in Battalia pie and other dishes in English Early Modern cooking
  • Lear, a character in Pokémon Masters EX

See also

  • Children of Lir, an Irish legend
  • King Lear (disambiguation)
  • LEA (disambiguation)
  • Lear's macaw, a rare bird named after Edward Lear
  • Lir (Irish), mythological gods of the sea
  • Llŷr (Welsh), mythological gods of the sea
  • Van Lear (disambiguation)
  • Laer