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.
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