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See also Pearce for similarly named articles.

Pearse is a surname, and may refer to:

  • Alfred Pearse (1855–1933), English cartoonist and campaigner
  • Arthur Sperry Pearse (1877–1956), American botanist and zoologist
  • Barbara Pearse (born 1948), British biological scientist
  • Benjamin Pearse (1832–1902), Anglo-Canadian surveyor and administrator
  • Charles Pearse (1884–1953), South African cricketer
  • Christopher Pearse Cranch (1813–1892), American writer and artist
  • George Pearse (disambiguation), several people
  • Guy Pearse (born ?), Australian author and environmentalist
  • Isabel Pearse (1912–1999), American actress
  • John Pearse (politician) (c.1760–1836), British politician and Governor of the Bank of England
  • John Pearse (1939–2008), British guitarist
  • Mabel Cosgrove Wodehouse Pearse (b.1872), Irish writer
  • Margaret Pearse (1857–1932), Irish politician, mother of Patrick, Willie and Margaret Mary
  • Margaret Mary Pearse (1878–1968), Irish politician and teacher, sister of Patrick Pearse
  • Mark Guy Pearse (1842–1930), English preacher, lecturer and author
  • Patrick Pearse (1879–1916), Irish teacher, barrister, poet, writer, nationalist and political activist, older brother of William Pearse
  • Richard Pearse (1877–1953), New Zealand inventor
  • Samuel Pearse (1897–1919), Australian soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross
  • Samuel Herbert Pearse (b.1865), Nigerian businessman
  • Susan Beatrice Pearse (1878–1980), British illustrator
  • Thomas Deane Pearse (c.1738–1789), British Army officer
  • Willie Pearse (1881–1916), Irish nationalist, younger brother of Patrick Pearse

Usage examples of "pearse".

Pearse mentions a woman of thirty-six who had suffered menorrhagia for ten days, and was in a state of great prostration and suffering from strong colicky pains.

Pearse had let Yeats know that not all Irishmen had made that bargain.