Farrar (surname)
Farrar is a surname. The principal contemporary alternate spelling is Ferrar and is an occupational surname for a blacksmith or ironworker - derived from the Latin ferrarius - and thus shares a common occupational derivation with the most common English surname, Smith.
Other archaic versions are Ferrers or de Ferrières. Farrar may refer to:
- Andrew Farrar (contemporary), Australian rugby league player and coach
- Anthony Farrar-Hockley (1924–2006), British general and historian
- Ben Farrar (b. 1986), rugby league footballer for North Queensland Cowboys, Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles, and Catalans Dragons
- Cicely Jordan Farrar (c. 1600–1637), an early female settler of the Jamestown colony
- David J. Farrar, (b. 1921), British engineer
- David Farrar (actor) (1908–1995), British actor
- David Farrar (New Zealand) (b. 1967), blogger
- Edgar Howard Farrar (1849–1922), U.S. corporate lawyer and political activist
- Ernest Farrar (1885–1918), English composer
- Frank Farrar (b. 1929), American politician from South Dakota
- Frederic William Farrar (1831–1903), British cleric, schoolmaster and writer
- Fred Farrar (c. 1883–?), rugby league footballer
- Geraldine Farrar (1882–1967), American opera singer
- James Farrar (1923–1944), British writer and poet
- Janet Farrar (b. 1950), British occultist
- Jay Farrar (b. 1966), American musician
- John Farrar (b. 1946), Australian musician
- John Chipman Farrar (1896–1974), American editor, writer and publisher, a founder of Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- John Percy Farrar (1857–1929), English mountaineer
- Lysander Farrar (1812–1876), New York
- Margaret Farrar (1897–1984), American journalist and crossword puzzle editor
- Mike Farrar (contemporary), British civil servant
- Nicholas Ferrar (1592–1637), English scholar, courtier, businessman and cleric
- Rick Lamar Farrar (b. 1960), Louisiana attorney and politician
- Robert Farrar, British writer
- Ronald T. Farrar (born 1935), American journalist and academic
- Sam Farrar (b. 1978), bassist of American rock band Phantom Planet
- Sid Farrar (1859–1935), infielder for the Philadelphia Quakers and Philadelphia Athletics
- Stewart Farrar (1916–2000), British Wiccan author, husband of Janet Farrar
- Tyler Farrar (b. 1984), American cyclist
- Vince Farrar (b. 1947), rugby league footballer
- Walchelin de Ferriers (d. 1201), English nobleman
- William Farrar (1583-1637), early English settler of Virginia (1618, aboard Neptune), husband of Cicely Farrar
Fictional characters
- Edward Ferrars, character from Sense and Sensibility
See also
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