Lear

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Lear or Leir can refer to any of the following:

• 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.
• King Lear, 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
• Lear, a 1971 Edward Bond play.
• Lear, an opera by Aribert Reimann.
• Leir, a fictional character in the Marvel universe.
• Learjet aircraft series.

[edit] Surname

• Alan W. Lear
• Alex Lear
• Alexander Theobald Van Lear
• Amanda Lear, singer
• 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
• John Lear
• Jonathan Lear, philosopher
• Les Lear
• Louise Lear
• Moya Lear
• Nicholas Lear, American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient
• Norman Lear, television writer and producer
• Tobias Lear

[edit] Abbreviation

• Liga de Escritores y Artistas Recolucionarios
• Low Energy Ion Ring (LEIR), a ion pre-accelerator of the LHC at CERN
  • Low Energy Anti-proton Ring (LEAR), the former (up to 2005) name and function of LEIR

[edit] See also

• The automotive supplier Lear Corporation.
• A Lighting Designer & Consultant in Taiwan Lear Hsieh of MS Design
• Acronym for Low Erudic Acid Rape, or colza seed
• Leah
• LEA (disambiguation)