Saar, Ferdinand von, 1833-1906, Austrian writer. His best works are his short stories, among them the two collections (1876, 1897) of Novellen aus Österreich [tales from Austria]. Saar was of the decadent school, and the people he portrayed were generally weak failures. Some of his later writings place him with the more sympathetic naturalists.

Saar has several meanings:

Places

• Saar, Bahrain, a town in Bahrain
• Saar Region and Saar Area— in context, any of the below:
  
• Saar River, or Saar River valley — an important navigable river running through the borderlands of France and Germany through a mineral rich, highly developed, industrial region once part of the pre-Napoleonic wars state of Lorraine and one center of the industrial revolution and armaments industries in the emerging modern Germany.
1. Saarland, a federal state of Germany
2. Saar (protectorate), a French protectorate (1947–1956)
3. Saar (League of Nations), a League of Nations governed territory (1920–1935)
4. Sarre (département), a French département (1798–1814)

People

• Ain Saar (born 1968), a Võro partisan leader
• Alison Saar (born 1956), an American artist
• Betye Saar (born 1926), an American artist
• Indrek Saar (born 1973), an Estonian actor
• Janne Saar (born 1986), an Estonian singer
• Johann Jacob Saar, a 17th century German explorer from Nuremberg
• Ferdinand von Saar, an 19th century Austrian writer
• Mart Saar (1882–1963), an Estonian composer
• Mikk Saar (born 1980), an Estonian singer

Other

• A Cananite God of Storm
• Several classes of Israeli missile boats:
• Saar 3 class missile boat
• Saar 4 class missile boat
• Saar 4.5 class missile boat
• Saar 5 class missile boat

SAAR may refer to:

• Seasonally Adjusted Annual Rate, also Industry SAAR
• Standard Annual Average Rainfall, a hydrological term used in the Flood Estimation Handbook (FEH)