Stearns (surname) facts for kids

Stearns is a surname that comes from an old English word, Stierne, which meant strict or serious. Other similar names include Stearn, Sterne, and Stern. Many interesting people and characters have had this name.

People with the Stearns Name

• Asahel Stearns (1774–1839) was a politician who represented Massachusetts in the U.S. Congress.
• Betsey Ann Stearns (1830–1914) was an American inventor.
• Bill Stearns (1853–1898) was a professional baseball pitcher.
• Carl Leo Stearns (1892–1972) was an American astronomer, someone who studies stars and planets.
• Cassius Clement Stearns (1838–1910) was an American composer, meaning he wrote music.
• Charles Woodward Stearns was an American writer.
• Charles Thomas Stearns was an American politician.
• Charlotte Champe Stearns (1843–1929) was a social worker and a poet. She was also the mother of the famous poet T. S. Eliot.
• Cheryl Stearns is an American skydiver.
• Clark Daniel Stearns (1870–1944) served as the 9th Governor of American Samoa, a U.S. territory.
• Cliff Stearns (born 1941) is a politician who represented Florida in the U.S. Congress.
• David Stearns is an American executive in professional baseball.
• Eben S. Stearns (1819–1887) was an American educator, meaning he worked in schools and teaching.
• Foster Waterman Stearns (1881–1956) was a politician who represented New Hampshire in the U.S. Congress.
• Frank Stearns was a close friend of U.S. President Calvin Coolidge.
• Frank Preston Stearns (1846–1917) was a writer and an abolitionist from Massachusetts. Abolitionists worked to end slavery.
• Frederick Kimball Stearns (1854–1924) was a businessman.
• George Luther Stearns (1809–1867) was an American industrialist and merchant.
• George McLellan Stearns (1901–1979) was a Canadian Member of Parliament, a type of politician.
• Glenn Stearns (born 1963) is an American businessman who founded Stearns Lending.
• Guy Beckley Stearns (1870–1947) was an American physician.
• Henry A. Stearns (1825–1910) was an industrialist and Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island.
• Howard Stearns was a football coach for Eastern New Mexico University.
• Jason Stearns (born 1976) is an American writer who helped with a UN investigation into wars in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• Jeff Chiba Stearns is a Canadian independent animation filmmaker.
• John Stearns (1951–2022) was a baseball player.
• John Stearns (physician) (1770–1848) was a U.S. physician.
• John Goddard Stearns Jr. (1843–1917) was an architect in Boston.
• Junius Brutus Stearns (1810–1885) was an American painter.
• Justin K. Stearns (born 1974) is an American academic, meaning he is a university professor or researcher.
• Justus Smith Stearns (1845–1933) was a Michigan businessman.
• Katee Stearns was a beauty queen from Orono, Maine.
• Marcellus Stearns (1839–1891) was the 11th governor of Florida.
• Marshall Stearns (1908–1966) was an American jazz critic and musicologist, someone who studies music.
• Martha Stearns Marshall was a preacher in the eighteenth century.
• Michael Stearns (born 1948) is an American musician known for ambient music.
• Nellie George Stearns (1855–1936) was an artist and art teacher.
• Onslow Stearns was an American railroad builder and executive.
• Ozora P. Stearns (1831–1896) was an American politician.
• Peter Stearns is a professor of history at George Mason University.
• Peyton Stearns (born 2001) is an American tennis player.
• R. H. Stearns (1824–1909) was a tradesman, philanthropist (someone who gives money to good causes), and politician from Massachusetts.
• Richard Stearns (disambiguation) refers to several different people.
• Robert Edwards Carter Stearns (1827–1909) was an American conchologist, someone who studies seashells.
• Shubal Stearns (1706–1771) was an American evangelist and preacher.
• Stephen C. Stearns is a Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University.
• Tim Stearns is a Professor of Biology at Stanford University.
• Theodore Stearns (1880–1935) was an American composer.
• Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888–1965) was a very famous British-American poet, writer, and literary critic.
• Winfrid Alden Stearns (1852–1909) was an American naturalist, someone who studies nature.

Fictional Characters with the Stearns Name

• Mike Stearns is a character in the 1632 book series.

See also

• Sterns (surname)
• Stearn, a similar surname