Stearns (surname) explained
Stearns is a surname derived from the Old English Stierne, which meant severe or strict. Variations include Stearn, Sterne and Stern. Notable people and characters with the name include:
People
- Asahel Stearns (1774–1839), U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
- Betsey Ann Stearns (1830-1914), American inventor
- Bill Stearns (1853–1898), professional baseball pitcher
- Carl Leo Stearns (1892–1972), American astronomer
- Cassius Clement Stearns (1838–1910), American composer
- Charles Woodward Stearns, American writer
- Charles Thomas Stearns, American politician
- Charlotte Champe Stearns (1843–1929), social worker, poet and mother of T. S. Eliot
- Cheryl Stearns, American skydiver
- Clark Daniel Stearns (1870–1944), 9th Governor of American Samoa
- Cliff Stearns (born 1941), U.S. Representative from Florida
- David Stearns, American baseball executive
- Eben S. Stearns (1819–1887), American educator
- Foster Waterman Stearns (1881–1956), U.S. Representative from New Hampshire
- Frank Stearns, close friend of Calvin Coolidge
- Frank Preston Stearns (1846–1917), writer and abolitionist from Massachusetts
- Frederick Kimball Stearns (1854–1924), businessman (see also Frederick Stearns Building)
- George Luther Stearns (1809–1867), American industrialist and merchant
- George McLellan Stearns (1901–1979), Canadian Member of Parliament
- Glenn Stearns (born 1963), American businessman, founder of Stearns Lending
- Guy Beckley Stearns (1870–1947), American physician specializing in homeopathy
- Henry A. Stearns (1825–1910), Rhode Island industrialist and Lieutenant Governor
- Howard Stearns, football coach for Eastern New Mexico University
- Jason Stearns (born 1976), American writer, coordinator of a UN investigation into the wars in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Jeff Chiba Stearns, Canadian independent animation filmmaker
- John Stearns (1951–2022), baseball player
- John Stearns (physician) (1770–1848), US physician
- John Goddard Stearns Jr. (1843–1917), Boston architect and co-founder of the firm Peabody & Stearns
- Junius Brutus Stearns (1810–1885), American painter
- Justin K. Stearns (born 1974), American academic
- Justus Smith Stearns, (1845–1933), Michigan businessman
- Katee Stearns, beauty queen from Orono, Maine
- Marcellus Stearns (1839–1891), the 11th governor of Florida
- Marshall Stearns (1908–1966), American jazz critic and musicologist
- Martha Stearns Marshall, eighteenth-century Separate Baptist preacher
- Michael Stearns (born 1948), American ambient musician
- Nellie George Stearns (1855–1936), artist and art teacher
- Onslow Stearns, American railroad builder and executive
- Ozora P. Stearns (1831–1896), American politician
- Peter Stearns, professor of history at George Mason University
- Peyton Stearns (b. 2001), American tennis player
- R. H. Stearns (1824–1909), tradesman, philanthropist, and politician from Massachusetts
- Richard Stearns (disambiguation), several people
- Robert Edwards Carter Stearns (1827–1909), American conchologist
- Shubal Stearns (1706–1771), American evangelist and preacher
- Stephen C. Stearns, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University
- Tim Stearns, Professor of Biology at Stanford University
- Theodore Stearns (1880–1935), American composer
- Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888–1965), British-American poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor.
- Winfrid Alden Stearns (1852–1909), American naturalist
Fictional characters
See also
