Brier

Briar, Briars or Brier may refer to:

Briar (thicket) (also spelt brier), common name for a number of unrelated thorny plants that form thickets.

People

Briar, Missouri, an unincorporated community in Ripley County
Briar, Texas, a census-designated place (CDP) in Parker, Tarrant, and Wise counties
Briar Creek (Susquehanna River), a tributary of the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania
Brier Creek, a tributary of the Savannah River in the U.S. state of Georgia
Brier Island, an island in the Bay of Fundy in Digby County, Nova Scotia
Brier, Washington, a city in Snohomish County

Briars, Saint Helena, a small pavilion in which Napoleon Bonaparte stayed
The Briars, also known as The Briars Homestead, Mount Martha, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Briars (Natchez, Mississippi), a historic house in Natchez, Mississippi, USA.
The Briars (Wahroonga), an historic house in Wahroonga, a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Briar Rose, the name of Sleeping Beauty in some versions of the story
Briar Moss, from the Circle of Magic and Circle Opens quartets by Tamora Pierce
The Briar King, a novel by Greg Keyes
Huckleberry Briar, a district in Strawberryland from the Strawberry Shortcake series, where Huckleberry Pie resides
Briar Cudgeon, a crazed ex-commander who wants revenge from Artemis Fowl
Briar, the evil sister of Rose in Bone (comic)
In Barbara Allen, a well-known folk ballad, the title character is identified with a briar in some versions
Br'er Rabbit is a character from Song of the South. Walt Disney and his writers chose to use the local southern spelling.

Brier score, a probability-related measure
Briar wood, wood from the root of Erica arborea, used for making smoking pipes
Briar (software), a project and application for mesh networking and resilient communications
Tim Hortons Brier (or simply "The Brier"), the Canadian men's curling championship