Stearns

The surname Stearns is derived from the Anglo-Saxon Stierne, which meant severe or strict. Variations include Sterne and Stern. It may refer to the following.

People

• Asahel Stearns (1774–1839), U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
• Bill Stearns (1853–1898), professional baseball pitcher.
• Carl Leo Stearns (1892–1972), American astronomer
• 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
• 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
• George Luther Stearns (1809–1867), American industrialist and merchant
• George McLellan Stearns (1901–1979), Canadian Member of Parliament
• Guy Beckley Stearns (1870–1947), American physician specializing in homeopathy
• Howard Stearns, football coach for Eastern New Mexico University
• Jeff Stearns (born 1977), American actor
• Jeff Chiba Stearns, Canadian independent animation filmmaker
• John Stearns (born 1951), former baseball player
• John Goddard Stearns, Jr. (1843–1917), Boston architect and co-founder of the firm Peabody & Stearns
• Junius Brutus Stearns (1810–1885), American painter
• 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
• Onslow Stearns, American railroad builder and executive
• Ozora P. Stearns (1831–1896), American politician
• Peter Stearns, professor of history at George Mason University
• R. H. Stearns, a wealthy tradesman from Massachusetts
• Richard Stearns (disambiguation), several people
• Shubal Stearns (1706–1771), American evangelist and preacher
• Stephen C. Stearns, a Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University.

Fictional

• Becky Stearns, a character in the alternate-history series 1632
• Mike Stearns, a fictional character in 1632

Places

United States

• Stearns, Kentucky
• Stearns, Wisconsin
• Stearns County, Minnesota
• Stearns Wharf, Santa Barbara, California

Other

• 2035 Stearns, an asteroid named after Carl Leo Stearns
• Stearns (crater), a lunar crater named after Carl Leo Stearns
• Stearns (automobile)
• The Bear Stearns Companies, Inc.
• Stearns Scout Camp