Henry Ware Jr. (April 21, 1794 – September 22, 1843) was an influential Unitarian theologian, early member of the faculty of Harvard Divinity School, and first president of the Harvard Musical Association.

After attending Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, and completing his Harvard A.B.

In 1830 Ware left the Second Church's pulpit, with Emerson replacing him there, and moved to Harvard Divinity School.

In 1831 he published On the Formation of the Christian Character, a manual on morality and his best-known work.

After Emerson's "Divinity School Address" in 1838, whose radical and unorthodox ideas greatly displeased many of the University faculty, Ware became more distant from his former student and friend, delivering the sermon "The Personality of the Deity" as a rebuttal of Emerson's views in the same year.