Briar, Briars, Brier, or Briers may refer to:

• Briar or brier, common name for a number of unrelated thorny plants that form thickets, including species in the genera Rosa (rose), Rubus (brambles), and Smilax

People and characters

• Brier (surname)

• Briers, a surname

• Briar (surname)

• Briars (surname)

• Briar Blush, an American drag performer.

Fictional characters

• Briar, a playable character in the video game League of Legends

• Briar, a character in the video game Pokémon Scarlet and Violet's downloadable content expansion pack The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero

• Briar, the evil sister of Rose in Bone (comics)

• Briar, in the cartoon series Boonie Bears

• Briar Beauty, the daughter of Sleeping Beauty from the fashion doll franchise Ever After High

• Briar Cudgeon, in Artemis Fowl

• Briar Moss, from Tamora Pierce's Circle of Magic and Circle Opens quartets

• Briar Raleigh, a Marvel Comics character associated with Magneto

• Briar Rose, a name associated with Sleeping Beauty, in some (including Brothers Grimm) versions of the story

Places

• Briar, Missouri, U.S.

• Briar, Texas, U.S.

• The Briars (Georgina), Ontario, Canada, a lakeside resort

• Brier, Washington, U.S.

• Briers, Mississippi, U.S., a ghost town

• Brier Island, Nova Scotia, Canada

• Briar Creek (disambiguation), or Brier Creek

• Briar Hill (disambiguation)

• Brier Hill (disambiguation)

Facilities and structures

Briars, Saint Helena, a small pavilion in which Napoleon Bonaparte stayed

• The Briars, Mount Martha, on the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia, an historic homestead named in honour of Briars, in Saint Helena

• The Briars, Wahroonga, Sydney, Australia, an historic house named in honour of Briars, in Saint Helena and The Briars, in Mount Martha

  The Briars (Natchez, Mississippi), U.S., a historic house

Other uses

Briar root, wood from Erica arborea, used for making smoking pipes

• Briar, a type of tobacco pipe

• The Brier, a bonspiel, the Canadian men's curling championship

• Briar (software), an open-source software communication technology

• Brier score, a metric to assess the predictive quality of a model

See also

• Briar Patch (disambiguation)

• Briar Rose (disambiguation)

• Brière (disambiguation)

• Blackbriar (disambiguation)

• Greenbrier (disambiguation)

• The Briar King, a 2003 novel by Greg Keyes

• Brier score, a probability-related measure