NEAR or Near may refer to:

People

• Thomas J. Near, US evolutionary ichthyologist

• Near (programmer), a developer who created the higan emulator

Science, mathematics, technology, biology, and medicine

• National Emergency Alarm Repeater (NEAR), a former alarm device to warn civilians of a foreign nuclear attack on the United States

• National Emergency Airway Registry (NEAR), a patient registry for intubations in the United States

• Nicking enzyme amplification reaction (NEAR), a method of DNA amplification

• NEAR (blockchain platform), a layer-1 blockchain

• NEAR Shoemaker, a spacecraft that studied the near-Earth asteroid Eros

• Nearness or proximity space

• "Near", a city browser by NearGlobal

• Near space, the upper atmosphere below outer space

Television, film, music, and books

• Near (Death Note), Nate River, a character

Other uses

• Near v. Minnesota, a U.S. press freedom Supreme Court decision

• New England Auto Racers Hall of Fame