Stearns (surname)
Stearns is a surname derived from the Old English Stierne, which meant severe or strict. Variations include Stearn, Sterne and Stern. Notable people and characters with the name include:
People
- Asahel Stearns, U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
- Betsey Ann Stearns, American inventor
- Bill Stearns, professional baseball pitcher
- Carl Leo Stearns, American astronomer
- Cassius Clement Stearns, American composer
- Charles Woodward Stearns, American writer
- Charles Thomas Stearns, American politician
- Charlotte Champe Stearns, social worker, poet and mother of T. S. Eliot
- Cheryl Stearns, American skydiver
- Clark Daniel Stearns, 9th Governor of American Samoa
- Cliff Stearns, U.S. Representative from Florida
- David Stearns, American baseball executive
- Eben S. Stearns, American educator
- Foster Waterman Stearns, U.S. Representative from New Hampshire
- Frank Stearns, close friend of Calvin Coolidge
- Frank Preston Stearns, writer and abolitionist from Massachusetts
- Frederick Kimball Stearns, businessman
- George Luther Stearns, American industrialist and merchant
- George McLellan Stearns, Canadian Member of Parliament
- Glenn Stearns, American businessman, founder of Stearns Lending
- Guy Beckley Stearns, American physician specializing in homeopathy
- Henry A. Stearns, Rhode Island industrialist and Lieutenant Governor
- Howard Stearns, football coach for Eastern New Mexico University
- Jason Stearns, American writer, coordinator of a UN investigation into the wars in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Jeff Chiba Stearns, Canadian independent animation filmmaker
- John Stearns, baseball player
- John Stearns (physician), US physician
- John Goddard Stearns Jr., Boston architect and co-founder of the firm Peabody & Stearns
- Junius Brutus Stearns, American painter
- Justin K. Stearns, American academic
- Justus Smith Stearns,, Michigan businessman
- Katee Stearns, beauty queen from Orono, Maine
- Marcellus Stearns, the 11th governor of Florida
- Marshall Stearns, American jazz critic and musicologist
- Martha Stearns Marshall, eighteenth-century Separate Baptist preacher
- Michael Stearns, American ambient musician
- Nellie George Stearns, artist and art teacher
- Onslow Stearns, American railroad builder and executive
- Ozora P. Stearns, American politician
- Peter Stearns, professor of history at George Mason University
- Peyton Stearns, American tennis player
- R. H. Stearns, tradesman, philanthropist, and politician from Massachusetts
- Richard Stearns (disambiguation), several people
- Robert Edwards Carter Stearns, American conchologist
- Shubal Stearns, American evangelist and preacher
- Stephen C. Stearns, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University
- Tim Stearns, Professor of Biology at Stanford University
- Theodore Stearns, American composer
- Thomas Stearns Eliot, British-American poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor.
- Winfrid Alden Stearns, American naturalist
Fictional characters
- Mike Stearns, a fictional character in ''1632''