Pearse (surname)
Pearse is a surname. Notable people with the name include:
- Alfred Pearse, English cartoonist and campaigner
- Arthur Sperry Pearse, American botanist and zoologist
- Barbara Pearse, British biological scientist
- Benjamin Pearse, Anglo-Canadian surveyor and administrator
- Cecilia, Lady Pearse, British writer
- Christopher Pearse Cranch, American writer and artist
- George Pearse (disambiguation), several people
- Guy Pearse, Australian author and environmentalist
- Isabel Pearse, American actress
- John Pearse (politician), British politician and Governor of the Bank of England
- John Pearse, British guitarist
- Mabel Cosgrove Wodehouse Pearse, Irish writer
- Margaret Pearse, Irish politician, mother of Patrick, Willie and Margaret Mary
- Margaret Mary Pearse, Irish politician and teacher, sister of Patrick Pearse
- Mark Guy Pearse, English preacher, lecturer and author
- Ormerod Pearse, South African cricketer
- Patrick Pearse, Irish teacher, barrister, poet, writer, nationalist and political activist, older brother of William Pearse
- Richard Pearse, New Zealand inventor
- Rupert Pearse, British physician specialising in intensive care medicine
- Samuel Pearse, Australian soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross
- Samuel Herbert Pearse, Nigerian businessman
- Susan Beatrice Pearse, British illustrator
- Thomas Deane Pearse, British Army officer
- Vyvyan Pearse, South African cricketer
- William Silas Pearse, Western Australian politician
- William Silas Pearse (minister), Australian Congregationalist
- Willie Pearse, Irish nationalist, younger brother of Patrick Pearse