Peirce
Peirce is an English surname. It may refer to some notable people with this surname:Surnames
- Augustus Baker Peirce American traveler; riverboat captain and artist in Australia
- Benjamin Peirce, American mathematician, author of an article on rejection of data outliers Peirce's Criterion, and father of Charles Sanders Peirce
- Bill Peirce, economist, Professor Emeritus at Case Western Reserve University, and 2006 Ohio gubernatorial candidate
- Charles Sanders Peirce , American logician, mathematician, scientist, philosopher, founder of pragmatism
- Clarence V. Peirce, American farmer and politician
- Cyrus Peirce, American educator, Unitarian minister, and the founding president of the first American public normal school
- Gareth Peirce, British solicitor, known for taking on controversial and human rights cases
- George James Peirce, American botanist
- Hayford Peirce, American writer of science fiction, mysteries, and spy thrillers
- Joseph Peirce, U.S. Representative from New Hampshire
- Juliette Peirce, second wife of the mathematician and philosopher Charles Peirce
- Henry A. Peirce of Massachusetts. U.S. Minister to Hawaiian Islands, 1869–77. Hawaiian Minister of Foreign Affairs, March-July 1878, under King Kalakaua
- Kimberly Peirce, American film director
- Leslie P. Peirce, American historian
- Lincoln Peirce, American cartoonist known for the comic strip Big Nate
- Robert B. F. Peirce U.S. Representative from Indiana
- Victor Peirce , infamous Australian criminal from Melbourne, Victoria
- Waldo Peirce, American painter, born in Bangor, Maine
- Robert Peirce , Municipal Water Engineer, Penang and Singapore
Other uses
- USCS Benjamin Peirce, a survey ship in commission in the United States Coast Survey from 1855 to 1868