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'''Waring''' is an English surname with two derivation hypotheses: from the [[Frankish language|Frankish]] ''Warin'', meaning 'guard,' via [[Norman language|Norman French]] ''Guarin,''<ref>{{Cite book|last=Bardsley|first=Charles Wareing Endell|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e85rAAAAMAAJ&dq=Waring&pg=PA793|title=A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special American Instances|date=1901|publisher=H. Frowde|isbn=978-0-8063-0022-1|language=en}}</ref> or from the Anglo-Saxon ''Wæring'', meaning 'confederate' or, more literally, 'oath companion.'<ref>{{Cite journal|date=1907|title=A List of Anglo-Saxon Names Still in Use as Surnames.|url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-968X.1907.tb00509.x|journal=Transactions of the Philological Society|language=en|volume=26|issue=1|pages=82|doi=10.1111/j.1467-968X.1907.tb00509.x|issn=1467-968X}}</ref> Both hypotheses suggest that ''Wareing'' is a variant of this name. (''Ware,'' as in the modern English ''aware'' and ''beware,'' is derived from the Anglo-Saxon ''waer''.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Aware word origin|url=https://etymologeek.com/eng/aware|access-date=2021-12-02|website=Etymologeek|language=en}}</ref>) Notable people with the surname include:
*[[Antonio J. Waring, Jr.]] (1915–1964), American amateur archaeologist
*[[Amanda Waring]], British  actress, singer and campaigner, daughter of Derek
*[[Charles Waring]] (1827–1887), British  politician and Liberal MP
*[[Charles E. Waring]] (1909–1981), American chemist and educator
*[[Derek Waring]] (1927–2007), British  actor, father of Amanda
*[[Dorothy Grace Waring]] (1891–1977), English fascist campaigner and novelist
*[[Edward Waring]] (c. 1736–1798), British  mathematician and eponym of Waring's Problem
*[[Eddie Waring]] (1910–1986), British  sports commentator
*[[Edmund Waring]] (c. 1638–1687), British  member of Parliament
*[[Elijah Waring]] (c. 1788–1857), Quaker and Anglo-Welsh writer
*[[Everett J. Waring]] (1859–ca. 1914), first African-American admitted to the Maryland State Bar Association and to try a case before the American Supreme Court
*[[Fred Waring]] (1900–1984), American bandleader who popularized the Waring blender
*[[George E. Waring, Jr.]] (1833–1898), American civic reformer
*[[Jack Waring (footballer)]] (1909–1991), English footballer
*[[Jane Roberts (first lady)|Jane Rose Waring]] (c. 1819–1914), maiden name of Jane Roberts, First Lady of Liberia
*[[James N. H. Waring]] (1861–1923), African-American educator, physician, and activist
*[[Jim Waring]] (born 1967), American politician
*[[Laura Wheeler Waring]] (1887-1948), American artist
*[[Marilyn Waring]] (born 1952), New Zealand feminist
*[[Myfanwy Waring]] (born 1977), Welsh actress
*[[Richard Waring]] (1910–1983), British  actor
*[[Richard Waring (writer)]] (1925–1994), British  comedy writer
*[[Robert O. Waring]] (1919–1976), American diplomat assassinated by terrorists in Beirut in 1976
*[[Stephanie Waring]] (born 1978), English actress
*[[Tom Waring]] (1906–1980), British  footballer
*[[William Herbert Waring]] (1885–1918), Welsh recipient of the Victoria Cross for his actions in World War I
*[[Will Waring]], Canadian camera operator and television director
==See also==
* [[Waering]], a surname
* [[Wareing]], a surname
* [[Wearing (surname)]]
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