Briar, Briars, Brier, or Briers may refer to: Briar, or brier, common name for a number of unrelated thorny plants that form thicket People Brier (surname) Briers, a surname Briars (surname) Places Briar, Missouri, U.S. Briar, Texas, U.S. Briars Historic Park, Mount Martha, Victoria, Australia The Briars (Georgina), Ontario, Canada, a lakeside resort Brier, Washington, U.S. Briers, Mississippi, , U.S., a ghost town Brier Island, Nova Scotia, Canada Briar Creek (disambiguation), or Brier Creek Briar Hill (disambiguation) Brier Hill (disambiguation) Buildings Briars, Saint Helena, a small pavilion in which Napoleon Bonaparte stayed The Briars (Natchez, Mississippi), U.S., a historic house The Briars, Wahroonga, Sydney, Australia, a historic house Fictional characters Briar Moss, from Tamora Pierce's Circle of Magic and Circle Opens quartets Briar Cudgeon, in Artemis Fowl Briar, the evil sister of Rose in Bone (comics) Br'er Rabbit, a central figure in an oral tradition passed down by African-Americans of the Southern United States Briar, in the cartoon series Boonie Bears Other uses Briar root, wood from Erica arborea, used for making smoking pipes Briar, a type of tobacco pipe Briar (software), an open-source software communication technology Tim Hortons Brier, or the Brier, the Canadian men's curling championship See also Briar Patch (disambiguation) Briar Rose (disambiguation) Brière (disambiguation) Blackbriar (disambiguation) Greenbrier (disambiguation) The Briar King, a 2003 novel by Greg Keyes Brier score, a probability-related measure