• Adam Pearce
  Adam Pearce
  Adam Pearce is an American professional wrestler and actor. He is the current NWA World Heavyweight Champion in his fourth reign and the NWA British Commonwealth Heavyweight Champion in his first reign. He is also a former PWG Champion....
  
  , American professional wrestler
• Alex Pearce
  Alex Pearce
  Alexander James Pearce is a professional footballer who plays as a centre back for Reading, where he has played his entire career, interspersed with loan periods at various clubs...
  
   (born 1988), Scottish footballer
• Alexander Pearce
  Alexander Pearce
  Alexander Pearce was an Irish convict who was transported to Van Diemen's Land for theft. He escaped from prison several times, but eventually was captured and was hanged and dissected in Hobart for murder....
  
   (1790 - 1824), famed escapee from Macquarie Harbour Penal
• Alice Pearce
  Alice Pearce
  Alicia “Alice” Pearce was an American actress. Brought to Hollywood by Gene Kelly to reprise her Broadway performance in the film version of On the Town , Pearce played comedic supporting roles in several films, before being cast as Gladys Kravitz in Bewitched in 1964...
  
   (1917 - 1966), American actress
• Allan Pearce
  Allan Pearce
  Allan Pearce is a New Zealand football player who plays as a striker. In the 2004/05 season he played for Waitakere United, scoring 6 goals.-Club career:...
  
   (born 1983), New Zealand soccer player
• Bob Pearce
  Bob Pearce
  Robert John Pearce was an Australian politician, and a member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from 1977 until 1993 representing the seats of Gosnells and Armadale.-Biography:...
  
   (born 1946), Australian politician
• Bobby Pearce (1905-1976), Australian-Canadian sculler
• Bobby Pearce
  Bobby Pearce (designer)
  Bobby Pearce is a Tony Award nominated American costume designer for stage, film and television.-Career:Bobby Pearce was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Costume Design and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Costume Design for the 2003 production of Taboo starring Boy George...
  
   (born 1961), American costume designer
• Brad Pearce
  Brad Pearce
  ----Brad Pearce is a former tennis player from the United States, who turned professional in 1986. He won four doubles titles during his career. The right-hander reached his highest singles ATP ranking on October 8, 1990, when he became the World No...
  
   (born 1966), American tennis player
• Bryan Pearce
  Bryan Pearce
  Walter Bryan Pearce was a British painter. He was recognised as one of the UK's leading naïve artists.-Early life:...
  
   (born 1929), painter
• Charles Pearce
  Charles Pearce (disambiguation)
  Charles Pearce may refer to:*Charles Thomas Pearce , English physician and opponent to mandatory vaccination*Charles Edward Pearce , United States Congressman from Missouri*Charles E. M...
  
  , various including:
  • Charles Pearce (1815-1883), British physician
  • Charles E. M. Pearce
    Charles E. M. Pearce
    Charles Edward Miller Pearce is a New Zealand/Australian mathematician.He is currently the Elder Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Adelaide.-Education:...
    
     (born 1940), New Zealand mathematician
  • Charles Sprague Pearce
    Charles Sprague Pearce
    -Biography:Pearce was born at Boston, Massachusetts. In 1873 he became a pupil of Léon Bonnat in Paris, and after 1885 he lived in Paris and at Auvers-sur-Oise. He painted Egyptian and Algerian scenes, French peasants, and portraits, and also decorative work, notably for the Thomas Jefferson...
    
     (1851 - 1914), American painter
• Chris Pearce
  Chris Pearce
  Christopher John Pearce , Australian politician, was a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives representing the Division of Aston, Victoria from July 2001, when he retained the seat for the Liberal Party in the 2001 Aston by-election, to his retirement in 2010.Pearce was born in...
  
   (born 1963), Australian politician
• Colin Pearce
  Colin Pearce
  Colin Frederick Pearce was an Australian rugby league referee. He is one ofthe most widely known and widely respected referees in the history of Rugby League....
  
   (1917-2004), Australian rugby league referee
• Darius J Pearce (born 1972), Jersey Politician
• David Pearce, various including:
  • David Pearce (boxer)
    David Pearce (boxer)
    David 'Bomber' Pearce was a British heavyweight boxing champion.-Early years:He was born in Newport, Monmouthshire...
    
     (1959–2000), former British heavyweight boxing champion
  • David Pearce (economist)
    David Pearce (economist)
    Professor David W. Pearce OBE was an Emeritus Professor at the Department of Economics in the University College London . He specialised in, and was a pioneer of, Environmental Economics, having published over fifty books and over 300 academic articles on the subject including his 'Blueprint for a...
    
    , pioneer of Environmental Economics
  • David Pearce (philosopher)
    David Pearce (philosopher)
    David Pearce is a British utilitarian thinker. He believes and promotes the idea that there exists a strong ethical imperative for humans to work towards the abolition of suffering in all sentient life. His book-length internet manifesto The Hedonistic Imperative details how he believes the...
    
    , British philosopher and negative utilitarian
  • Dave Pearce (DJ), British dance DJ and record producer
  • Dave L. Pearce
    Dave L. Pearce
    David L. "Dave" Pearce was a Democrat who served as the Louisiana Commissioner of Agriculture and Forestry from 1952–1956 and again from 1960-1976...
    
     (1904–1984), Louisiana state representative
  • David Pearce (Australian soldier)
• Dickey Pearce
  Dickey Pearce
  Richard J. "Dickey" Pearce was an American professional baseball player and one of the sport's most famous early figures. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, and began playing with the Brooklyn Atlantics in 1856. He continued his career in the National Association and the early years of Major...
  
   (1836-1908), early baseball player who started with the Brooklyn Atlantics in 1856
• Donn Pearce
  Donn Pearce
  Donn Pearce is an American author best known for the novel and screen play Cool Hand Luke.Born Donald Mills Pearce in a suburb of Philadelphia, Pearce left home at 15. He attempted to join the United States Merchant Marine at 16, but was turned away due to his age. He lied about his age,...
  
   (born 1928), author of Cool Hand Luke
• Douglas Pearce (born 1956), English folk musician Douglas P
• Edgar Pearce
  Edgar Pearce
  Edgar Eugene Pearce is a British convicted extortionist and bomber, who was convicted of the Mardi Gra bombings after admitting a three-year blackmail and terror campaign in the London area between December 1994 and April 1998....
  
   (born 1937/38), convicted of the Mardi Gras bombings
• Sir Edward Lovett Pearce
  Edward Lovett Pearce
  Sir Edward Lovett Pearce was an Irish architect, and the chief exponent of palladianism in Ireland. He is thought to have initially studied as an architect under his father's first cousin, Sir John Vanbrugh. He is best known for the Irish Houses of Parliament in Dublin, and his work on Castletown...
  
   (1699-1733), Irish architect
• Sir Eric Pearce
  Sir Eric Pearce
  Sir Eric Pearce, OBE Kt was a broadcaster and television pioneer in Australia.Pearce started his career in England and worked for the BBC before moving to Australia. This led to him working at numerous radio stations in the pre-television era, in particular 3DB and 3XY in Melbourne...
  
   (1905-1997), Australian television presenter
• Francis Tring Pearce (1846-1935) Director of Priday, Metford and Company Limited
  Priday, Metford and Company Limited
  Priday, Metford and Company Limited was a family-run company that produced flour at the City Flour Mills, Gloucester, England for over a century. They were closed down in 1994 and the premises converted to luxury apartments under the name of "Priday's Mill". The City Flour Mills were the location...
  
  , Gloucester
  Gloucester
  Gloucester is a city, district and county town of Gloucestershire in the South West region of England. Gloucester lies close to the Welsh border, and on the River Severn, approximately north-east of Bristol, and south-southwest of Birmingham....
  
  
• Frank Pearce, various
• Fred Pearce
  Fred Pearce
  Fred Pearce is an English author and journalist based in London. He has been described as one of Britain's finest science writers and has reported on environment, popular science and development issues from 64 countries over the past 20 years. He specializes in global environmental issues,...
  
  , English journalist
• George Pearce
  George Pearce (disambiguation)
  George Pearce may refer to:* George Pearce , Australian politician* George Pearce , New Zealand politician* George C. Pearce , American actor* George Hamilton Pearce , Archbishop of Fiji-See also:...
  
  , various including:
  • George Pearce
    George Pearce
    Sir George Foster Pearce KCVO was an Australian politician who was instrumental in founding the Australian Labor Party in Western Australia....
    
     (1870-1952), Australian politician
  • George Pearce (New Zealand)
    George Pearce (New Zealand)
    George Vater Pearce was a New Zealand politician of the Reform Party.He represented the Patea electorate in Parliament from 1908 to 1919, when he was defeated.He was the great-grandfather of a National Party Minister of Finance, Ruth Richardson....
    
     (1863-1935), New Zealand politician
  • George C. Pearce
    George C. Pearce
    George C. Pearce was an American film actor of the silent era. He appeared in 133 films between 1914 and 1939.He was born in New York, New York, and died in Los Angeles, California.-Selected filmography:*Mrs...
    
     (1865-1940), American actor
  • George Hamilton Pearce
    George Hamilton Pearce
    Msgr. George Hamilton Pearce, SM, DD was the first Bishop of Apia and is Archbishop Emeritus of Suva, Fiji....
    
     (b. 1921), Archbishop of Fiji
• Greg Pearce
  Greg Pearce
  Greg Pearce is currently presenter of Nine News Perth, a position he has held since early 2008.Originally a journalist with the ABC Greg became best known as presenter of the Ten News bulletin for Perth, prior to that he had been a news presenter for Seven News in Melbourne and had a short stint...
  
  , Australian newsreader
• Guy Pearce
  Guy Pearce
  Guy Edward Pearce is an English-born Australian actor and musician, known for his roles as Leonard Shelby in Christopher Nolan's Memento, Lieutenant Ed Exley in L.A...
  
   (born 1967), Australian actor
• Howard Pearce
  Howard Pearce
  His Excellency Howard John Stredder Pearce, CVO was Governor of the Falkland Islands and Civil Commissioner of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands until July 2006. He assumed both positions on 3 December 2002. Before his appointment, Pearce was High Commissioner to Malta from 1999 to 2002...
  
   (born 1949), the Governor of the Falkland Islands
• Ian Pearce
  Ian Pearce
  Ian Anthony Pearce is an English footballer who plays as a defender, spending the majority of his career in the Premier League. He is currently playing for Kingstonian in the Isthmian Premier League....
  
  , English footballer
• Jacqueline Pearce
  Jacqueline Pearce
  Jacqueline Pearce is a British actress.-Career:Jacqueline Pearce trained at the British stage school RADA and at Lee Strasberg's Actors Studio in Los Angeles....
  
   (born 1943), British actress
• James Pearce
  James Pearce
  James Alfred Pearce was an American politician. He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, representing the second district of Maryland from 1835–1839 and 1841-1843. He later served as a U.S. Senator from Maryland from 1843 until his death in 1862.Pearce was the son of Gideon Pearce...
  
   (1805 – 1862), American politician
• Jeff Pearce (American artist) (born 1967), an Indiana-based ambient guitarist
• Jeff Pearce (Canadian musician) (born 1967), a Canadian musician
• Jonathan Pearce
  Jonathan Pearce
  Jonathan Pearce , is a British football commentator for the BBC.Known for his loud, exuberant commentaries, he has worked for both Radio Five Live and Match of the Day, as well as participating in other lower key sports programmes.- Early life and career :Pearce wanted to become a footballer, but...
  
  , British sports commentator
• Joseph Pearce
  Joseph Pearce (disambiguation)
  Joseph Pearce is the name of:*Joseph Pearce , Catholic writer*Joseph Chilton Pearce, writer*Joseph Channing Pearce , 19th century fossil collector*Joe Pearce, rugby league player*Joe Pearce *Joe Pearce...
  
  , various including:
  • Joseph Pearce
    Joseph Pearce
    Joseph Pearce is an English-born writer, and Writer in Residence and Professor of Literature at Ave Maria University in Ave Maria, Florida; previously he had a comparable position, from 2001, at Ave Maria College in Ypsilanti, Michigan. He is known for a number of literary biographies, many of...
    
     (born 1961), English-born writer
  • Joseph Chilton Pearce
    Joseph Chilton Pearce
    Joseph Chilton Pearce is an American author of a number of books on child development. He prefers the name "Joe".He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II...
    
    , American writer
• Kevin Pearce
  Kevin Pearce (snowboarder)
  Kevin Pearce is an American snowboarder. He was born in Hanover, New Hampshire, and raised in Hartland, Vermont before moving with his parents to Norwich, Vermont.-Career:...
  
   - American snowboarder from Norwich, Vermont
• Krystian Pearce
  Krystian Pearce
  Krystian Mitchell Victor Pearce is an English professional footballer who plays for Notts County as a central defender. He had an earlier spell on loan at Notts County, and also played in the Football League for Port Vale, Scunthorpe United, Peterborough United and Huddersfield Town...
  
   (born 1990), English footballer
• Lennard Pearce
  Lennard Pearce
  Lennard Pearce was an English actor who worked mostly in the theatre, but also appeared in a number of British television programmes. He landed his most notable TV role during the final few years of his life, starring as Edward "Grandad" Trotter in the popular sitcom, Only Fools and Horses from...
  
   (1915 - 1984), British actor
• Mary Vivian Pearce
  Mary Vivian Pearce
  Mary Vivian Pearce is an American actress. She has worked primarily in the films of John Waters.Pearce is the childhood best friend of John Waters and has appeared as an actress in all of his films. Because of her work with Waters, she is considered one of the Dreamlanders, Waters' ensemble of...
  
  , actress
• Michael Pearce (disambiguation), multiple uses
• Nicholas B. Pearce, American Civil War general in the Union Army
• Philippa Pearce
  Philippa Pearce
  Ann Philippa Pearce OBE was an English children's author.-Early life:The youngest of four children, Pearce was brought up in the Mill House in the village of Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire...
  
   (1920-2006), English writer for children
• Reylene Pearce
  Reylene Pearce
  Reylene Pearce is an Australian actress, best known for her long-running role in the television drama series Prisoner as Phyllis Hunt. She appeared in the show from 1979 to 1984, during which time the role had developed from a background bit part to a central character.She appeared in an Australian...
  
  , Australian actress
• Richard Pearce, various including:
  • Richard Pearce (film director) (born 1943)
  • Richard Pearce (British actor) (born 1961)
  • Richard Pearse
    Richard Pearse
    Richard William Pearse , son of Cornish immigrants from St Columb near Newquay, a New Zealand farmer and inventor who performed pioneering experiments in aviation....
    
     (1877–1956), New Zealand aviator and inventor
  • Richard Pearce (botanist)
    Richard Pearce (botanist)
    Richard Pearce was a Victorian plant collector, who introduced the tuberous begonia to England, which led to the development of the hybrid begonias grown today.-Early career:Pearce was born at Stoke, Devonport in Devon...
    
     (c.1835 – 1868), Victorian plant collector
• Robert Pearce, various including:
  • Robert Pearce (MP)
    Robert Pearce (MP)
    Robert Pearce was a British Liberal Party politician. He was a Member of Parliament for all but one of the years from 1906 to 1918, and was an early advocate in Parliament of daylight saving time....
    
     (1840–1922), British Liberal Member of Parliament 1906–1910, 1910–1918
  • Robert A Pearce, current Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales, Lampeter
• Steve Pearce
  Steve Pearce
  Stevan Edward "Steve" Pearce is the U.S. Representative for . He is a member of the Republican Party. He previously held the seat from 2003 to 2009 and was an Assistant Minority Whip.-Early life, education and career:...
  
   (born 1947), American politician representing New Mexico
• Stuart Pearce
  Stuart Pearce
  Stuart Pearce OBE is an English football manager and former player. He is currently the manager of the England national under-21 team and the Great Britain and Northern Ireland Olympic football team...
  
   (born 1962), English football coach
• Suzie Muirhead, New Zealand field hockey player was known as Suzie Pearce until she married
• Sydney Pearce, Australian rugby league player
• Wayne Pearce
  Wayne Pearce
  Wayne John Pearce OAM is an Australian former rugby league footballer and coach. An athletic Lock Forward for the Balmain Tigers, he was affectionately known as 'Junior'...
  
  , captain of the Rugby League Club Balmain Tigers from 1982 to 1990
• William Pearce, various including:
  • Sir William Pearce, 1st Baronet
    Sir William Pearce, 1st Baronet
    Sir William Pearce, 1st Baronet was a British shipbuilder, under whose management the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company in Govan on the River Clyde became the leading shipbuilding company in the world...
    
     (1833–1888), British politician, Conservative MP for Glasgow Govan 1885–1889
  • Sir William Pearce (Liberal politician)
    William Pearce (Liberal politician)
    Sir William Pearce was an English chemical manufacturer and Liberal Party politician in the East End of London, in England. He was Member of Parliament for Limehouse constituency from 1906 to 1922.-Family and education:...
    
     (1853–1932), British politician, Liberal MP for Limehouse 1906–1922
  • Sir William Pearce, 2nd Baronet
    Sir William Pearce, 2nd Baronet
    Sir William George Pearce, 2nd Baronet was a British industrialist and Conservative Party politician in England....
    
     (1861–1907), British politician, Conservative MP for Plymouth 1892-1895

• Harry Pearce
  Harry Pearce
  Sir Henry James "Harry" Pearce KBE is the fictional head of the Counter-Terrorism department of MI5, featured in the British television series, Spooks...
  
  , character from Spooks
  Spooks
  Spooks is a British television drama series that originally aired on BBC One from 13 May 2002 – 23 October 2011, consisting of 10 series. The title is a popular colloquialism for spies, as the series follows the work of a group of MI5 officers based at the service's Thames House headquarters, in a...
  
  
• Melissa Pearce, character from Parasite Eve
  Parasite Eve
  Parasite Eve is a Japanese science fiction novel by Hideaki Sena, first published in Kadokawa Horror Bunko in 1996. The book was published in North America by Vertical, Inc. in 2005....
  
  

See also

• Pearse
  Pearse
  Pearse is a surname, and may refer to:* Patrick Pearse , leader of the Irish Easter Rising in 1916* Barbara Pearse, British biological scientist* Charles Pearse, South African cricketer...
  
  
• Pierce (disambiguation)
• Peirce (disambiguation)