Vares is a surname. In the Estonian language and some dialects of Finnish the word literally means "raven". Notable people with the surname include:
- Johannes Vares (1890–1946), Estonian politician
- Maria Eulália Vares, Brazilian mathematical statistician and probability theorist
- Sergo Vares (born 1982), Estonian actor
- Tõnis Vares (1859–1925), Estonian politician
Fictional characters
- Jussi Vares, fictional Finnish private detective from the novel series Vares by Reijo Mäki and films base on the novels
See also
- All pages with titles containing Vares
- Suzanne Vares-Lum
- Abdel Vares Sharraf
- Varis, Finnish surname of the same meaning
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