Wearing is a surname, and may refer to:
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Alison Wearing
Alison Wearing (born 1967) is a Canadian writer and performer most noted for her memoir and solo play, ''Confessions of a Fairy's Daughter''.
Wearing, born in Peterborough, Ontario, studied French, music, and political science across various uni ...
(born 1967), Canadian writer
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Ben Wearing (born 1989), Australian football player
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Benny Wearing
Benny Wearing (11 June 1901 – 9 April 1968) was an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1920s and 1930s. An Australian international and New South Wales representative three-quarter, he played his club football in the NSWRF ...
(1901–1968), Australian rugby league player
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Clive Wearing
Clive Wearing (born 11 May 1938) is a British former musicologist, conductor, tenor and keyboardist who has chronic anterograde and retrograde amnesia. He lacks the ability to form new memories and cannot recall aspects of his memories, frequ ...
(born 1938), British musicologist
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Gillian Wearing
Gillian Wearing CBE, RA (born 10 December 1963) is an English conceptual artist, one of the Young British Artists, and winner of the 1997 Turner Prize. In 2007 Wearing was elected as lifetime member of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Her ...
(born 1963), English conceptual artist
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J. P. Wearing
John Peter Wearing (born c. 1945) is an Anglo-American theatre historian and professor, who has written numerous books and articles about nineteenth and twentieth-century drama and theatre, including ''The Shakespeare Diaries: A Fictional Autobi ...
(born circa 1945), English-American author
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Michael Wearing
Michael Wearing (12 March 1939 – 5 May 2017) was a British television producer, who spent much of his career working on drama productions for the BBC. He is best known as the producer of the well received serials ''Boys from the Blackstuff'' (198 ...
(1939–2017), British television producer
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William Alfred Wearing
William Alfred Wearing (12 November 1816 – 24 February 1875) was a prominent jurist in the Colony of South Australia, who lost his life in the wreck of '' S.S. Gothenburg''.
Wearing was born in London, a son of businessman Christopher Hamm ...
(1816–1875) South Australian Supreme Court judge
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Waring
Waring is an English surname with two derivation hypotheses: from the Frankish ''Warin'', meaning 'guard,' via Norman French ''Guarin,'' or from the Anglo-Saxon ''Wæring'', meaning 'confederate' or, more literally, 'oath companion.' Both hypothe ...
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Waering
Waering is a Germanic surname. Although Grant Allen and Isaac Taylor described ''Wæring'' as an Anglo-Saxon clan name equivalent to the Norse ''Væringjar'' (autonym of the Varangians), the eminent British philologist Walter William Skeat su ...
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