What is "farrar"

Farrar may refer to:

• Farrar, Iowa, a US town
• Farrar, Missouri, a US unincorporated community
• Farrar, Northern Territory
• River Farrar
• Farrar (album), a 2008 album by Scottish fiddler Duncan Chisholm
• Farrar (surname), people with the surname Farrar

Farrar is a surname. The principal contemporary alternate spelling is Ferrar. Other versions, including archaic ones, are Farrars, Ferrars, de Ferrars, Ferrars de Groby, de Ferriers, de Ferrières and the oldest known form, de Ferrières-Saint-Hilaire. 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 (circa 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 (circa-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 C. 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 politician
• 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 L. Farrar (b. 1960), Louisiana attorney and politician
• Robert Farrar, British writer
• 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

Farrar is the third solo album by Scottish fiddler Duncan Chisholm. It was released in 2008. The album forms the first part of Chisholm's "Strathglass Trilogy", and won him the MG Scots Alba Album of the Year 2008.

Lunasa recorded "250 to Vigo" previously in 2003, for the album Redwood. Whilst Shooglenifty did also in 1994 for Venus in Tweeds.