Piers (name)
Piers is an old English given name and surname, and has the same origins as Peter. Its meaning is 'rock, stone'.
People with the given name
- Piers Adam, British businessman
- Piers Adams, British recorder player
- Piers Akerman, Australian journalist, conservative commentator and columnist
- Piers Anthony, Anglo-American fantasy/science fiction author known for his Xanth series of novels
- Piers Baker, British cartoonist
- Piers Baron, English musician
- Piers Bengough, British Army officer
- Piers Benn, British philosopher
- Piers Bishop, British artist
- Piers Bizony, Science journalist
- Piers Blaikie, British geographer
- Piers Bohl, Latvian mathematician
- Piers Brendon, British writer
- Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormond
- Piers Claughton, British Anglican bishop, Archdeacon of London and Chaplain-General of Her Majesty's Forces
- Piers Coleman, British physicist
- Piers Corbyn, British weather forecaster, climate change denier and conspiracy theorist
- Piers Courage, English racing driver
- Piers Crosby, Irish soldier
- Piers Dixon, British Conservative politician
- Piers Dutton, British politician
- Pier Gerlofs Donia, Frisian rebel leader and pirate
- Piers Maxwell Dudley-Bateman, Australian landscape painter
- Piers Edgecumbe, English politician
- Piers Edgcumbe, 5th Earl of Mount Edgcumbe, British soldier
- Piers Faccini, English singer and painter
- Piers Flint-Shipman, English actor
- Piers Gaveston, 1st Earl of Cornwall, a favourite of King Edward II of England
- Piers Gilliver, British wheelchair fencer
- Piers Gough, British architect
- Piers Haggard, British television and film director
- Piers Lane, Australian concert pianist
- Piers Mackesy, British military historian
- Piers McDonald, Canadian politician and trade unionist
- Piers Merchant, British politician
- Piers Morgan, British broadcaster and former tabloid newspaper editor
- Piers Paul Read, English novelist, historian and biographer
- Piers Sellers, Anglo-American meteorologist and NASA astronaut
- Piers Torday, British children's writer
- Piers Wenger, British television producer
Surname
- Piers baronets, two baronetcies created for persons with the surname Piers
- Constance Piers, Canadian journalist, poet, editor
- Dennis Piers, South African cricketer
- Desmond Piers, Royal Canadian Navy rear-admiral
- Harry Piers, Canadian historian
- Henry Piers, Anglo-Irish Member of Parliament, administrator and writer
- Sir Henry Piers, 1st Baronet, Anglo-Irish soldier and antiquarian
- John Piers, Archbishop of York
- Sir John Piers, 6th Baronet, Irish rake and duellist
- Julie Piers, American golfer
- Sarah Piers, English literary patron, political commentator and poet
- William Piers (bishop), British Anglican bishop and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University
- William Piers (constable), constable of Carrickfergus
- The title character of Piers Plowman, a Middle English allegorical narrative poem by William Langland
- Piers is a main character of Game Boy Advance JRPG Golden Sun: The Lost Age
- Piers, one of the Gym Leaders in Pokémon Sword and Shield
- Piers Nivans is the name of a BSAA soldier from the video game ''Resident Evil 6''