Pearce (surname)

Pearce is a surname, from knights of the Norman lord Mansfield prior to the invasion of England. It derives etymologically from the Germanic word to pierce, and was a name commonly given to warrior caste in Saxon/Jute, p-celtic and oil languages. Another etymology is from Piers, the medieval vernacular form of Peter, and may refer to:

People

 * Adam Pearce (born 1978), American professional wrestler
 * Adrienne Pearce, South African actress
 * Al Pearce (1898–1961), American comedian, singer and banjoist
 * Alec Pearce (1910–1982), English cricketer
 * Alex Pearce (born 1988), English footballer
 * Alexander Pearce (1790–1824), escapee from Macquarie Harbour Penal Station
 * Alice Pearce (1917–1966), American actress
 * Allan Pearce (born 1983), New Zealand soccer player
 * Andy Pearce (born 1966), English footballer
 * Austin Pearce (1921–2004), British manager
 * Barcley Pearce (born 1970), Canadian ice hockey player
 * Beth Pearce, Vermont government official
 * Bill Pearce (1926–2010), American singer and trombonist
 * Billy Pearce, English actor and comedian
 * Bob Pearce (born 1946), Australian politician
 * Bobby Pearce (rower) (1905–1976), Australian-Canadian sculler
 * Bobby Pearce (designer) (born 1961), American costume designer
 * Brad Pearce (tennis) (born 1966), American tennis player
 * Brad Pearce (footballer) (born 1971), Australian rules footballer
 * Brian Pearce (1915–2008), British politician, historian, and translator
 * Bryan Pearce (1929–2007), British painter
 * Bunny Pearce (1885–1933), American baseball player
 * Caroline Pearce (born 1981), English athlete
 * Carly Pearce (born 1990), American country music singer
 * Charles Pearce (disambiguation), various including:
 * Christopher or Chris Pearce (disambiguation)
 * Clancee Pearce (born 1990), Australian rules footballer
 * Cliff Pearce, Australian rugby league footballer
 * Col Pearce (1917–2004), Australian rugby league referee
 * Colby Pearce (born 1972), American cyclist
 * Col Pearce (1917–2004), Australian rugby league referee
 * Colman Pearce (born 1938), Irish pianist and conductor
 * Craig Pearce, Australian actor and writer
 * Cromwell Pearce (1772–1852), U.S. Army colonel during the War of 1812
 * Daniel Pearce (born 1978), English musician
 * Danyle Pearce (born 1986), Australian rules footballer
 * Darius J. Pearce (born 1972), Jersey politician
 * David Pearce (disambiguation)
 * Deb Pearce, Canadian broadcaster and comedian
 * Denis Pearce (1896–1968), British fencer
 * Dennis Pearce (born 1974), English footballer
 * Dickey Pearce (1836–1908), early baseball player who started with the Brooklyn Atlantics in 1856
 * Donn Pearce (1928–2017), American author of Cool Hand Luke
 * Douglas Pearce (born 1956), English folk musician Douglas P.
 * Drew Pearce (born 1975), English writer, producer and director
 * Drue Pearce (born 1951), American businesswoman and politician
 * Dutee Jerauld Pearce (1789–1849), American politician
 * Eddie Pearce (born 1952), American golfer
 * Edgar Pearce (born 1937/38), British criminal convicted of the Mardi Gras bombings
 * Edmund Pearce (1870–1935), English bishop
 * Edward Pearce (disambiguation)
 * Eric Pearce (disambiguation)
 * Ernest Pearce (1865–1930), English bishop
 * Eve Pearce (1929–2023), Scottish actress
 * Francis Tring Pearce (1846–1935), English director of Priday, Metford and Company Limited
 * Frank Pearce (disambiguation)
 * Fred Pearce (born 1951), English journalist
 * Gary Pearce (disambiguation)
 * George Pearce (disambiguation)
 * Graham Pearce (English footballer) (born 1963), English footballer
 * Greg Pearce (disambiguation)
 * Guy Pearce (born 1967), Australian actor
 * Heath Pearce (born 1984), American soccer player
 * Hen Pearce (1777–1809), English prizefighter
 * Henry Pearce (disambiguation)
 * Howard Pearce (born 1949), English-born Governor of the Falkland Islands
 * Ian Pearce (born 1974), English footballer
 * Irene Pearce (1900–2012), British supercentenarian
 * Ivy May Pearce (1914–1998), Australian pilot and business owner
 * Jackson Pearce (born 1984), American author
 * Jacqueline Pearce (1943–2018), British actress
 * James Pearce (1805–1862), American politician
 * Jason Pearce (born 1987), English footballer
 * Jeff Pearce (American musician) (born 1967), American ambient guitarist
 * Jeff Pearce (Canadian musician) (born 1967), Canadian musician
 * Jim Pearce (disambiguation)
 * Jimmy Pearce (born 1947), English footballer
 * Joe Pearce (Australian rugby league) (1910–1995), Australian rugby league footballer
 * Joe Pearce (footballer) (1885–1915), Australian rules footballer
 * Joe Pearce (British rugby league), rugby league footballer of the 1920s and 1930s
 * John Pearce (disambiguation)
 * Jonathan Pearce (disambiguation)
 * Jordan Pearce (born 1986), American ice hockey player
 * Joseph Pearce (disambiguation)
 * Josh Pearce (born 1977), American baseball player
 * Joshua Pearce, (living) American scientist and engineer
 * Julian Pearce (field hockey) (born 1937), Australian field hockey player
 * Kevin Pearce (disambiguation)
 * Krystian Pearce (born 1990), English footballer
 * Lara Taylor-Pearce, Sierra Leonean auditor general
 * Laurence Pearce (born 1990), English rugby league and union player
 * Lawrence Pearce (born 1980), English film writer and director
 * Lennard Pearce (1915–1984), British actor
 * Leslie Pearce (disambiguation)
 * Lindsay Pearce, American actress and singer
 * Mahal Pearce (born 1977), New Zealand golfer
 * Mark Pearce (disambiguation)
 * Mark Guy Pearse (1842–1930), British preacher, lecturer and author
 * Martin Pearce (born 1983), English cricketer
 * Mary Vivian Pearce (born 1947), American actress
 * Michael Pearce (author) (1933–2022), Anglo-Egyptian Sudan author
 * Michael Pearce (artist) (born 1965), British, California based artist
 * Mitchell Pearce (born 1989), Australian Rugby League player
 * Monty J. Pearce (born 1948), member of the Idaho senate
 * Nancy Pearcey (born 1952), American Christian author
 * Nathaniel Pearce (1779–1820), British explorer
 * Nathan Pearce (1977), husband, father, and baker at Gluten Free Galley in Raleigh, NC
 * Nicholas Bartlett Pearce, American Civil War general in the Union Army
 * Pard Pearce (1896–1974), American football player
 * Paul Pearce (born 1956), Australian politician
 * Perce Pearce (1900–1955), American producer, director, and writer
 * Pevita Pearce (born 1992), Indonesian actress and model
 * Philippa Pearce (1920–2006), English writer for children
 * Pippa Pearce MBE, Conservator
 * Reylene Pearce, Australian actress
 * Richard Pearce (disambiguation)
 * Robert Pearce (disambiguation)
 * Rudolph Pearce (born 1945), Jamaican footballer
 * Russell Pearce (1947–2023), American politician
 * Ruth Pearce Australian ambassador
 * Sam Pearce (born 1997), Welsh cricketer
 * Sandy Pearce (1883–1930), Australian rugby league footballer and boxer
 * Sarah Pearce (born 1965), British professor of history
 * Shaun Pearce (born 1969), British canoeist
 * Shirley Pearce, English professor
 * Stanley Pearce (1863–1929), English cricketer
 * Stephen Pearce (1819–1904), English painter
 * Steve Pearce (disambiguation)
 * Stevo Pearce (born 1962), British record label owner
 * Stuart Pearce (born 1962), English football coach
 * Suzie Muirhead (born 1975), New Zealand field hockey player known as Suzie Pearce until she married
 * Sydney Pearce (1883–1930), Australian rugby league player
 * Teresa Pearce (born 1955), British politician
 * Terry Pearce (disambiguation)
 * Thomas Pearce (disambiguation)
 * Tom Pearce (cricketer) (1905–1994), English cricketer and rugby union official
 * Tom Pearce (footballer)
 * Vera Pearce (1895–1966), Australian actress
 * Virginia H. Pearce (born 1945), author and member of Young Women organization of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
 * Walter Pearce (disambiguation)
 * Wayne Pearce (born 1960), Australian captain of the Rugby League Club Balmain Tigers from 1982 to 1990
 * William Pearce (disambiguation)
 * Zachary Pearce (1690–1774), English bishop

Fictional characters

 * Aiden Pearce, from the video game Watch Dogs
 * Harry Pearce, from the British television series Spooks
 * Lola Pearce, from the British soap opera EastEnders
 * Melissa Pearce, from the Japanese novel Parasite Eve
 * Mickey Pearce, from the British sitcom Only Fools and Horses
 * Phil Pearce, from the British soap opera Emmerdale Farm
 * Ruth Pearce, from the British soap opera Doctors