Ayres (surname)
Ayres is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Agnes Ayres, American silent film actor
- Alice Ayres, English nursemaid, honored for rescuing her three nieces from a burning building at the cost of her own life
- Anne Ayres, American Episcopalian nun
- Benjamin Ayres an actor, director, photographer
- Benjamin Ayres , an English instrument maker
- Bill Ayres, American radio talk show host, co-founder and executive director of World Hunger Year
- David Ayres, Canadian ice hockey goaltender, and sole emergency backup goaltender to win an NHL game
- Ed Ayres, American writer, editor, environmentalist and ultramarathon runner
- Eddie Ayres, Australian musician, music teacher and radio presenter
- Edward E. Ayer, American business magnate
- Edward L. Ayers, American historian, professor, administrator, and ninth president of the University of Richmond
- Caroline Ayres, basketball player
- Christopher Ayres, American voice actor
- Clara Ayres, American nurse during the First World War
- Clarence Edwin Ayres, American economist
- Gary Ayres, Australian rules footballer and coach
- Gillian Ayres, British painter
- Greg Ayres, American voice actor
- Harry Ayres, British footballer
- Harry Ayres , New Zealand guide and mountaineer
- Ian Ayres, American professor at Yale Law School and Yale School of Management
- Ian Ayres, American filmmaker
- João Maria Correia Ayres de Campos, 1st Count of Ameal, Portuguese humanist, politician and art-collector
- José Márcio Ayres, Brazilian primatologist and conservationist
- Leonard Porter Ayres, American statistician
- Lew Ayres, American actor
- Lewis Ayres, lay Catholic theologian
- Pam Ayres, British writer of humorous poetry
- Philip Ayres , English poet
- Philip Burnard Ayres, British physician and botanist
- Richard Ayres, British composer
- Robert Ayres, multiple people
- Romeyn B. Ayres, Union general in the American Civil War
- Rosalind Ayres, British actress
- Thomas Ayres , British-born South African ornithologist
- Thomas Ayres , California gold rush-era artist
- Thomas E. Ayres, American military lawyer
- Vernon Ayres, Canadian ice hockey player
- William Orville Ayres, American physician and ichthyologist
