List of pear cultivars
Over 3000 cultivars of the pear are known. The following is a list of the more common and important cultivars, with the year and place of origin and an indication of whether the pears are for cooking, eating, or making perry. Those varieties marked have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
Table of pears
| Common name | Synonyms | Image | Origin | First developed | Comment | Use |
| Abate Fetel | Abbé Fetel | France | a major cultivar in Italy | Eating | ||
| Alexander Lucas | ||||||
| Ambrosia | ||||||
| Ayers | United States | an interspecific P. communis× P. pyrifolia hybrid from the University of Tennessee | ||||
| Bambinella | Malta | |||||
| Black Worcester | England | a cooking pear that keeps well | cooking | |||
| Blake's Pride | United States | 1965 | derived from a cross of US 446 x US 505, made by H.J. Brooks | |||
| Blanquilla | 'pera de agua' and 'blanquilla de Aranjuez', Spain | |||||
| Bon Rouge | cultivar derived from a rare, spontaneous bud mutation of the green pear cultivar William’s Bon Chretien | |||||
| Bosc | ||||||
| Beurre Hardy | Boulogne-sur-Mer | |||||
| Butirra Precoce Morettini | Florence, Italy | 1956 | cross between Coscia x Williams’ made by Morettini | |||
| Carmen | ||||||
| Cascade | ||||||
| Catillac | ||||||
| Churchland | ||||||
| Clairgeau | ||||||
| Clapp's Favourite | Dorchester, Massachusetts | |||||
| Clara Frijs | thought to be from the village of Skensved | major cultivar in Denmark | ||||
| Concorde | England | a seedling of 'Conference' × 'Doyenné du Comice | ||||
| Conference | Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, England | 1894 | ||||
| Corella | Barossa Valley in southern Australia by German settlers | |||||
| Coscia | Italy | very early maturing cultivar | ||||
| Claude Blanchet | Vienne, Isère, France by M BLANCHET | 1877 | Random seedling | |||
| D'Anjou | ||||||
| Dessertnaja | ||||||
| Don Guindo | Spain | strong yellow, flavoured taste | ||||
| Doyenné du Comice | France | |||||
| Dr. Jules Guyot | ||||||
| Earlibrite | ||||||
| Elektra | ||||||
| European | ||||||
| Flemish Beauty | Fondante des Bois | |||||
| Fondante d'Automne | France | An old Flemish variety raised by Fievee at Maubeuge | ||||
| Forelle | ||||||
| General Leclerc | ||||||
| Gerburg | ||||||
| Giffard | ||||||
| Glou Morceau | Belgium | 1750 | ||||
| Gorham | United States | |||||
| Harobig | ||||||
| Harovin Sundown | ||||||
| Harrow Crisp | ||||||
| Harrow Delight | Canada | |||||
| Harrow Gold | ||||||
| Harrow Red | ||||||
| Harrow Sweet | Canada | |||||
| Harvest Queen | ||||||
| Hermann | ||||||
| Hortensia | ||||||
| Huntington Pear | ||||||
| Isolda | ||||||
| Joséphine de Malines | Belgium | obtained by Esperen, pomologist and mayor of Malines in the 19th century; one of the best late season pears | ||||
| Kieffer | United States | a hybrid of the Chinese "sand pear", P. pyrifolia and probably 'Bartlett' | ||||
| La France | France | |||||
| Lategale | ||||||
| Laxtons Superb' | England | no longer used due to high susceptibility to fireblight | ||||
| Le Conte | ||||||
| Louise Bonne | Normandy, France | |||||
| Luscious | United States | |||||
| Merton Pride | England | 1941 | ||||
| Moonglow | ||||||
| Chinese White Pear | Nashi | |||||
| Nashi | Asian/Japanese/Chinese/Korean/Taiwanese/sand pear | - | ||||
| Kosui , | Cider, cooking, eating | |||||
| Hosui | 'Russet pears',Russet apple pear | National Institute of Fruit Tree Science, Japan | Cider, cooking, eating | |||
| Nijisseiki name means "20th century", also spelled 'Nijusseiki' | ||||||
| Starkrimson | Red Clapp's | Michigan | 1939 | a red-skinned bud mutation of Clapp's Favourite. Its thick, smooth skin is a uniform, bright and intense red, and its creamy flesh is sweet and aromatic. | ||
| Stinking Bishop | ||||||
| Summer Beauty | ||||||
| Summercrisp | ||||||
| Sudduth | ||||||
| Taylor's Gold | New Zealand | a russeted mutant clone of 'Comice' | ||||
| Tosca | ||||||
| Turandot | ||||||
| Uta | ||||||
| Vicar of Winkfield | England | a green skinned cooking pear | cooking | |||
| Virgouleuse | ||||||
| Williams | Williams' Bon Chrétien Bartlett Red Bartlett | There are three major red-skinned mutant clones: 'Max Red Bartlett', 'Sensation Red Bartlett', 'Rosired Bartlett' | ||||
| Winter Nelis |