Pearse is a surname, and may refer to:
- Arthur Sperry Pearse (1877–1956), American botanist and zoologist
- Barbara Pearse (born 1948), British biological scientist
- 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
- Patrick Pearse (1879–1916), Irish teacher, barrister, poet, writer, nationalist and political activist, older brother of William Pearse
- Richard Pearse (1877–1953), New Zealander inventor
- Samuel George Pearse (1897–1919), Australian soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross
- William Pearse (1881–1916), Irish nationalist, younger brother of Patrick Pearse
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Famous quotes containing the word pearse:
“‘But where can we draw water,’
Said Pearse to Connolly,
‘When all the wells are parched away?
O plain as plain can be
There’s nothing but our own red blood
Can make a right Rose Tree.’”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)