What is "mears"

Mears or Meares is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Ainslie Dixon Meares (1910-1986) Australian psychiatrist, and authority on medical hypnotism
• Anna Meares (born 1983), Australian cyclist
• Brian Mears (born 1932), British author and former chairman of Chelsea Football Club
• Cecil Meares (1877-1937), chief dog handler on the Terra Nova expedition to Antarctica
• Chris Mears (born 1978), Canadian baseball player
• Chris Mears (diver) (born 1993) British diver, Olympic champion
• Ernie Mears, a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders
• Frank Charles Mears (1880-1953), Scottish planning practitioner
• Frank Meares (1873–1952), Australian cricketer (also Frank Devenish-Meares)
• Frederick Mears (1878-1939), American civil engineer
• Gus Mears (1873-1912), (a.k.a. Henry Augustus Mears), businessman and founder of Chelsea Football Club
• Helen Farnsworth Mears (1872-1916), American artist
• Jen Mears (1984), actress, writer, producer
• John Meares (1756–1809), English navigator
• Lee Mears (born 1979), English rugby union player
• Leonard Frank Meares (1921-1993), Australian author
• Joe Mears (1905-1966), former chairman of The Football Association and Chelsea Football Club
• Joseph Mears (1871-1936), (a.k.a. Joseph Theophilus Mears), co-founder of Chelsea Football Club
• People called Ray Mears
• Richard Goldsmith Meares (1780-1862), Anglo-Irish public official at the Swan River Colony
• Robbie Mears, Australian rugby league footballer
• Thomas Mears (1775-1832), Canadian businessman and politician
• Tyrone Mears (born 1983), Jamaican footballer with Burnley
• Warren Mears, fictional character from the U.S. television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer