Ayres (surname)

Ayres is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Agnes Ayres (1898–1940), American silent film actor
• Alice Ayres (1859–1885), honored for rescuing of her three nieces from a burning building at the cost of her own life
• Anne Ayres (1816–1886), American Episcopalian nun
• Benjamin Ayres (born 1977) an actor, director, photographer
• Benjamin Ayres (instrument maker) (died c. 1775), an English instrument maker
• Bill Ayres, American radio talk show host, co-founder and executive director of World Hunger Year
• Caroline Ayres, basketball player
• Christopher Ayres (born 1965), American voice actor
• Gary Ayres (born 1960), Australian rules footballer and coach
• Gillian Ayres (born 1930), British painter
• Greg Ayres (born 1968), American voice actor
• H. Welborn Ayres (1900-1985), American judge
• Ian Ayres (born 1959), American professor at Yale Law School and Yale School of Management
• Ian Ayres (filmmaker), American filmmaker
• João Maria Correia Ayres de Campos, 1st Count of Ameal (1847–1920), Portuguese humanist, politician and art-collector
• José Márcio Ayres (1954–2003), Brazilian primatologist and conservationist
• Leonard Porter Ayres (1879–1946), American statistician
• Lew Ayres (1908–1996), American actor
• Lewis Ayres, lay Catholic theologian
• Pam Ayres (born 1947), British writer of humorous poetry
• Philip Ayres (poet) (1638–1712), English poet
• Philip Burnard Ayres, British physician and botanist
• Richard Ayres (born 1965), British composer
• Robert Ayres (disambiguation), multiple people
• Romeyn B. Ayres (1825–1888), Union general in the American Civil War
• Rosalind Ayres (born 1946), British actress
• Thomas Ayres (1816–1858), artist who first drew Yosemite
• Thomas Ayres (1828–1913), South African ornithologist
• Vernon Ayres (born 1909), Canadian ice hockey player
• William Orville Ayres (1817–1887), American physician and ichthyologist