Lear Explained

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 (born 1948), philosopher
• 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), an American businesswoman
• Nicholas Lear, 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
• Tobias Lear (1762–1816), personal secretary to President George Washington
• Thomas Lear (disambiguation)

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, 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