Shearer Explained

A shearer is someone who shears, such as a cloth shearer, or a sheep shearer. Origins of the name include from near Bergen in Norway 1600s [Sweden of that period] as Skea (pronounced "Skeg" meaning "beard") and Heddle (meaning market place) as migrated to The Orkney Islands where the name 'Shearer' is found in Church marriage records of the time and as quite prolific for the overall population. Members of those family Shearer migrated to Australia and New Zealand in the 19th century and represents the highest concentration of nation for the name globally.

Additionally, shearers are some kind of mining machines used for continuous mining.

Additionally, Shearer is a surname:

Surname

In sports

Alan Shearer (born 1970), English footballer
Andrew Shearer (lumber merchant) (1864–1944), Canadian lumber merchant and amateur ice hockey player
Bob Shearer (1948–2022), Australian golfer and golf course architect
Bob Shearer (footballer) (1892–1957), Australian rules footballer
Bobby Shearer (1931–2006), Scottish footballer
Brad Shearer (born 1955), American football player
Dale Shearer (born 1965), Australian rugby league player
Dale Shearer (racing driver) (born 1959), American stock car racing driver
Dave Shearer (1958–2022), Scottish footballer
Donald Shearer (1909–1999), English amateur footballer and cricketer
Duncan Shearer (born 1962), Scottish footballer
Graeme Shearer (1948–1983), Australian rules footballer
Jack Shearer (1896–1963), New Zealand rugby union player
Jan Shearer (born 1958), New Zealand sailor
Jock Shearer (1917–1979), Scottish football player and coach
Lee Shearer (born 1977), English footballer
Marshall L. Shearer (1901–1964), American football coach
Matt Shearer (born 1973), Canadian lacrosse player
Peter Shearer (born 1967), English footballer
Ray Shearer (1929–1982), American baseball player
Ray Shearer (footballer) (1924–1975), Australian rules footballer
Rob Shearer (born 1976), Canadian ice hockey player
Ronald Shearer (1905–1998), American football player
Sam Shearer (1883–1971), Scottish footballer
Scott Shearer (born 1981), Scottish footballer
Sydney Shearer (1890–1973), New Zealand rugby union player
Wally Shearer (1918–2000), Australian rules footballer

In politics and religion

Bill Shearer (1931–2007), American attorney and political activist who founded the American Independent Party
Conrad Shearer (1873–1948), American politician and businessman
David Shearer (born 1957), New Zealand Leader of the Opposition and UN Deputy Special Representative to Iraq
David Shearer (minister) (1832–1891), founder of the Presbyterian Church in Western Australia
Hugh Shearer (1923–2004), Jamaican Prime Minister
Ian Shearer (1941–2021), New Zealand, National Party politician
Jack Shearer (priest) (1926–2001), Church of Ireland priest and Dean of Belfast cathedral
Mark Shearer (born 1962), American politician
Robert Austin Shearer (1868–1920), Ontario farmer and political figure
Tony Shearer (1926–2002), American Mayanism proponent and New Age author
Vernon Shearer, South African politician

In the arts

Aaron Shearer (1919–2008), American classical guitarist and teacher
Al Shearer (born 1977), American actor
Allen Shearer (born 1943), American composer and baritone
Andrew N. Shearer (born 1977), American filmmaker, journalist and punk rock musician
Ariel Shearer (c. 1905-?), Australian concert pianist
Athole Shearer (1900–1985), Canadian actress
Barbara Shearer (1936–2005), American pianist
Ben Shearer (born 1941), South Australian artist noted for outback watercolours
Brandi Shearer (born 1980), American singer-songwriter
Christopher Shearer (1846–1926), American landscape artist
Dick Shearer (1940–1997), American jazz trombonist
Harry Shearer (born 1943), American actor and comedian
John Shearer (photographer) (1947–2019), American photographer
John D. Shearer (born 1980), American photographer
Moira Shearer (1926–2006), Scottish actress and ballet dancer
Norma Shearer (1902–1983), Canadian-American actress, sister of Athole
Rhonda Roland Shearer, American sculptor and art historian
Steven Shearer (born 1968), Canadian multimedia artist
Sybil Shearer (1912–2005), Canadian modern dancer, writer, choreographer
Ted Shearer (1919–1992), American advertising art director and cartoonist

Others

Alex Shearer (born 1949), British novelist and scriptwriter
Andrew Shearer (astrophysicist) (born 1953), Irish astrophysicist
Blake Shearer (2002–2018), American murder victim
Brooke Shearer (1950–2009), American private investigator, journalist and political aide
Catriona Shearer, Scottish broadcast journalist and producer
Charles L. Shearer (born 1942), American academic and university president
Clea Shearer, American entrepreneur
Cresswell Shearer (1874–1941), British zoologist
David Shearer (engineer) (1850–1936), Australian inventor, agricultural implement manufacturer and steam car pioneer
Derek Shearer (born 1946), American diplomat
Douglas Shearer (1899–1971), Canadian-American motion picture sound engineer
Elga Meta Shearer (1883–1967), American educator and textbook author
Ernest Shearer (1879–1945) Scottish agriculturalist
Gene Shearer (born 1937), American immunologist
Hannah Louise Shearer (born 1945), American television writer
Helena Shearer (c. 1842–1885), Irish socialist and suffragist
Ian Shearer, Lord Avonside (1914–1996), Scottish lawyer and judge
Thomas Shearer, 18th-century English furniture designer
Jacqueline Shearer (1946–1993), American documentary director and producer
James Shearer (1881–1962) Scottish architect
Jesse Lowen Shearer (1921–1992), American engineer
Jim Shearer (born 1974), American television personality
John Bunyan Shearer (1832–1919), American college president
John Shearer (engineer) (1845–1932), Australian inventor and agricultural implement manufacturer
Jonathan Shearer (born 1965), British media personality
Lloyd Shearer (1916–2001), American celebrity gossip columnist
Maurice E. Shearer (1879–1953), United States Marine Corps general
Miranda Shearer (born 1982), English writer
Sallie Shearer (c. 1848–1909), American brothel-keeper and wife of Christopher Shearer
William Shearer (British Free Corps) (1917–1995), British Nazi collaborator
William Shearer (immunologist) (1937–2018), American immunologist

Given name

Shearer West, British-American art-historian, academic and university administrator