Peirce is a surname that may refer to:
- Benjamin Peirce (1809–1880), American mathematician, author of an article on rejection of data outliers Peirce's Criterion, and father of Charles Sanders Peirce
- Bill Peirce (born 1938), economist, Professor Emeritus at Case Western Reserve University, and 2006 Ohio gubernatorial candidate
- Charles Sanders Peirce (C.S. Peirce) (1839–1914), American logician, mathematician, scientist, philosopher, founder of pragmatism
- Cyrus Peirce (1790–1860), American educator, Unitarian minister, and the founding president of the first American public normal school
- Gareth Peirce (born c. 1940), British solicitor, known for taking on controversial and human rights cases
- Hayford Peirce (born 1942), American writer of science fiction, mysteries, and spy thrillers
- Joseph Peirce (1748–1812), U.S. Representative from New Hampshire
- Juliette Peirce (died 1934), second wife of the mathematician and philosopher Charles Peirce
- Henry A. Peirce (Henry Augustus Peirce) (1808–1885) of Massachusetts. U.S. Minister to Hawaiian Islands, 1869–77. Hawaiian Minister of Foreign Affairs, March-July 1878, under King Kalakaua
- Kimberly Peirce (born 1967), American film director
- Leslie P. Peirce, American historian
- Lincoln Peirce, American cartoonist known for the comic strip Big Nate
- Penney L. Peirce, (born 1949), American pioneer in intuition development, author of books on spirituality and expanded perception
- Robert B. F. Peirce (1843–1898) U.S. Representative from Indiana
- Victor Peirce (Victor George Peirce) (1958–2002), infamous Australian criminal from Melbourne, Victoria
- Waldo Peirce (1884–1970), American painter, born in Bangor, Maine
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Famous quotes containing the word peirce:
“The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise.”
—Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)
“All the followers of science are fully persuaded that the processes of investigation, if only pushed far enough, will give one certain solution to each question to which they can be applied.... This great law is embodied in the conception of truth and reality. The opinion which is fated to be ultimately agreed to by all who investigate is what we mean by the truth, and the object represented in this opinion is the real.”
—Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)
“The method of authority will always govern the mass of mankind; and those who wield the various forms of organized force in the state will never be convinced that dangerous reasoning ought not to be suppressed in some way.”
—Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)