NEAR or Near may refer to:
People
Thomas J. Near, US evolutionary ichthyologist
Near, a developer who created the higan emulator
Science, mathematics, technology, biology, and medicine
National Emergency Alarm Repeater (NEAR), a former alarm device to warn civilians of a foreign nuclear attack on the United States National Emergency Airway Registry (NEAR), a patient registry for intubations in the United States Nicking enzyme amplification reaction (NEAR), a method of DNA amplification NEAR Shoemaker, a spacecraft that studied the near-Earth asteroid Eros Nearness or proximity space "Near", a city browser by NearGlobal