Vares (surname)

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Vares is a surname. In the Estonian language and some dialects of Finnish the word literally means "raven". Notable people with the surname include:

* Johannes Vares (1890–1946), Estonian politician
* Maria Eulália Vares, Brazilian mathematical statistician and probability theorist
* Sergo Vares (born 1982), Estonian actor
* Tõnis Vares (1859–1925), Estonian politician

## Fictional characters

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* Jussi Vares, fictional Finnish private detective from the novel series Vares by Reijo Mäki and films base on the novels

## See also

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* All pages with titles containing Vares
* Suzanne Vares-Lum
* Abdel Vares Sharraf
* Varis, Finnish surname of the same meaning

Surname list

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Family names derived from the word "raven"/"crow"

Germanic|

* North Germanic: Ravn
* West Germanic: De Raaf, Raaf, Raab, Raabe, Rabe, Raven

Romance|

* Latin: Corvus
* French: Corbeau
* Iberian: Cuervo, Corvo
* Italian: Corvo, Corbo

Slavic|

* East Slavic: Voron, Vorona, Voronikhin, Voronin, Voronov, Vorontsov, Woronin
* South Slavic: Gavran
* West Slavic: Havran, Havránek, Gawron, Kruk, Wrona

Other|

* Baltic: Krauklis, Varnas
* Estonian: Vares
* Finnish: Korppi, Varis
* Hungarian: Holló, Varjú

False cognates|

* Voronets, Voronkin, Voronoy, Voronyi

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