Varese (, Latin Baretium, archaic , Varés in Varesino) is a city and comune in north-western Lombardy, northern Italy, north of Milan.

Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse (; also spelled Edgar Varèse; December 22, 1883 – November 6, 1965) was a French-born composer who spent the greater part of his career in the United States.