- Richard Sears
Richard Warren Sears (born December 7, 1863 in Stewartville, Minnesota - died September 28, 1914), son of James Warren Sears (a blacksmith and wagon-maker by trade) and Eliza Burton, was a manager, businessman, and the founder of Sears, Roebuck and Company with his partner Alvah C. Roebuck. He is considered to be one of the great American promotional geniuses.
- Djanet Sears
Djanet Sears is a Canadian playwright, actor and director. Born in England to a Guyanese father and a Jamaican mother, Sears was raised in England and in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Her birth name was Janet — she added the D when she came across a town called Djanet on a trip to Africa. Her play "Harlem Duet" won many Canadian awards, including four Dora Mavor Moore Awards and a Governor General's Award for drama.
- Jim Sears
Jimmy Sears (born March 20, 1931 in Los Angeles) is a former american football halfback.
- George W. Sears
George Washington Sears (December 2, 1821 - May 1, 1890) was a sportswriter for Forest and Stream magazine in the 1880s and an early conservationist. His stories, appearing under the pen name, "Nessmuk" popularized self-guided canoe camping tours of the Adirondack lakes in open, lightweight solo canoes and what is today called ultralight camping. Canoeing had been popularized by Scottish lawyer John MacGregor in the 1860s, …
- Arron Sears
Arron Eugene Sears (born October 25, 1984) is an American football offensive tackle who currently plays for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League. He played collegiately at Tennessee.
- Leah Ward Sears
Leah Ward Sears (born June 13, 1955) is Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the U.S. state of Georgia. When sworn in on June 28, 2005, Sears became the only African-American female Chief Justice in the United States. When she was first appointed as justice in 1992 by then Governor Zell Miller, she became the first woman and youngest person to sit on the Supreme Court of Georgia. Chief Justice Sears received her B.S. from Cornell University in 1976, …
- Minnie Earl Sears
Minnie Earl Sears had a long career as a cataloger and bibliographer at a variety of libraries (Bryn Mawr College, University of Minnesota, New York Public Library), before she joined the publishing company H. W. Wilson in 1923 to publish her "List of Subject Headings for Small Libraries". The book provides a list of subject headings for small libraries to use in lieu of Library of Congress Subject Headings.
- Edmund Sears
Edmund Hamilton Sears (1810-1876) was a Unitarian parish minister and author who wrote a number of theological works influencing 19th century liberal Protestants. Sears is known today primarily as the man who penned the words to "It Came Upon A Midnight Clear" in 1849. Sears originally wrote the song as a melancholy reflection on his times while a minister in Wayland, Massachusetts, USA. However, "It Came Upon A Midnight Clear" has since become a popular Christmas carol.
- Willis G. Sears
Willis Gratz Sears (b. 1860- d. 1949) was a Nebraska Republican politician. Born in Willoughby, Ohio on August 16, 1860, he moved to Nebraska in 1879. He studied law at the University of Kansas at Lawrence, Kansas and was admitted to the bar in 1884. He set up practice in Tekamah, Nebraska and then became the prosecuting attorney for Burt County from 1895 to 1901. He was elected a member of the Nebraska house of representatives in 1901, …
- Heather Sears
Heather Sears (September 28 1935 - January 3 1994) was a British actress. Her most famous movies are "The Phantom of the Opera", "Room at the Top", "The Story of Esther Costello" and "Estate of Insanity".
- Pete Sears
Pete Sears is a professional keyboardist and bassist. In Pete Sears' forty-one years as a professional musician, he has played keyboards or bass guitar with a large variety of artists on many records. His credits include the classic early Rod Stewart albums, Gasoline Alley, Every Picture Tells a Story, Never a Dull Moment, and Smiler, featuring Ron Wood and Martin Quittington on guitars, Micky Waller on drums, Pete on piano and some bass, and Ian Mclagan on organ.
- Ken Sears
Kenneth Robert Sears (born August 17, 1933 in Watsonville, California) is a retired American professional basketball player. A 6'9" forward from Santa Clara University, Sears played eight seasons (1955-1961;1962-1964) in the National Basketball Association as a member of the New York Knicks and San Francisco Warriors. He averaged 13.9 points per game and 7.8 rebounds per game in his NBA career, appearing as an NBA All-Star in 1958 and 1959.
- Francis Sears
Francis Weston Sears (1898 - 1975) was an American physicist. He was a professor of physics at MIT and is best known for writing a widely-used introductory physics textbook (often referred to as "Sears and Zemansky").
- Mary Sears
Mary Sears (18 July 1905 - 1997) was a Commander in the United States Navy and a leading oceanographer. Throughout her career, she was associated with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Few members of the staff have been more closely involved in the development of WHOI than was Sears. She was present for many of the early discussions organizing the Institution and acquiring its first ships, …
- Jason Sears
Jason Sears was an American punk rock vocalist best known for his work with Rich Kids on LSD. He was also an accomplished snowboarder who was part of the first Barfoot snowboarding team. In a 2002 interview with "Thrasher" magazine, Sears said the name of the group came as a fluke: “It happened that some guy said, 'Ha, those kids will never be anything, they're just a bunch of rich kids on LSD, man.' The first party we played we didn't have a name for the band, …
- William Sears
William Sears was a prominent American Bahá'í teacher and writer. Sears was appointed a Hand of the Cause by Shoghi Effendi in the last contingent of Hands prior to his death in 1957. Sears was a United States television and radio personality. He was an extremely popular author in the Bahá'í community.
- Richard Sears
Richard Dudley "Dick" Sears (born on October 26, 1861 in Boston - died on April 8, 1943) was an American male tennis player. Undefeated in the U.S. Championships, he won the first of his seven titles there in 1881 while still a student at Harvard. Starting in the 1881 first round, he went on an 18-match unbeaten streak that would take him through the 1887 championships, after which he retired from the game.
- Julia Sears
Julia Sears, was a pioneering academic and suffragette. She achieved a milestone early in her career when in 1872 she became the first woman in the U.S. to head a public college, Minnesota State Normal College at Mankato, now Minnesota State University, Mankato. Her first address to its female graduates was forthright, telling them “You are stepping out into life at a time when you hear not the sound, ‘thus far in education may you go and no farther, …
- William Sears
William Sears (born c. 1940) is an American pediatrician, the author or co-author of more than 30 parenting books, most notably several in the "Sears Parenting Library." He is a frequent guest on television talkshows, where he goes by the name Dr. Bill. He and his wife Martha Sears, R.N., are among the leading proponents of the attachment parenting philosophy.
- Henry Sears
Henry Francis Sears (born January 8, 1862 - died January 1, 1942) was an American sports shooter who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. He was part of the 50 metre military pistol team, which won he gold medal. He also participated in the 25 m rapid fire pistol event and finished 7th and in the 50 metre pistol event finished 16th.
- John Sears
John Patrick Sears is an attorney and a Republican political strategist. He was born July 1940 in Syracuse, NY, son of James L Sears and Helen M. Fitzgerald. Sears attended Christian Brothers Academy in Syracuse. An alumnus of Notre Dame University (BS-1960) and Georgetown University (LLB, JD-1963). Notable milestones in his career include: * Playing a pivotal role at the 1968 Republican Convention in securing Nixon's nomination.
- Jack Sears
Sir Jack Sears (born February 16, 1930) is a British former race and rally driver, and was one of the principal organisers of the 1968 London-Sydney Marathon. He won the inaugural British Saloon Car Championship in 1958, driving an Austin Westminster and regained the title in 1963, driving a variety of cars including a Ford Cortina GT, a seven litre Ford Galaxie and a Lotus Cortina, which was used for the final two races.
- Isaac Sears
Isaac Sears was an American merchant, sailor, and political figure who played an important role in the American Revolution. He was nicknamed "King Sears" for his influential role in organizing and leading Patriot. Sources vary on Sears' place of birth and birthdate: "Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography" claims Sears was born in 1729 in Norwalk, Connecticut, while "Encyclopædia Britannica" claims he was born in West Brewster, Massachusetts, in 1730, …
- Willard T. Sears
Willard Thomas Sears (Nov. 5, 1837-May 21, 1920) was an important New England architect of the 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1861, Sears opened an architectural studio with Charles Amos Cummings. Together as Cummings and Sears, they designed many important buildings in and around Boston, including Brechin Hall and the Stone Chapel at Phillips Academy in Andover, the Old South Church on Copley Square (1875), and the Cyclorama (1884).
- Richard W. Sears
Richard W. Sears, Jr. (1943 -) -- Democratic member of the Vermont State Senate, representing the Bennington senate district. Richard Sears was first elected to the Vermont State Senate in 1992 and continues to serve in that office.
- Paul Sears
Paul Bigelow Sears (December 17, 1891-April 30, 1990) was an American ecologist. He was born in Bucyrus, Ohio. Sears attended Ohio Wesleyan University and the University of Chicago. He taught at University of Oklahoma, Oberlin College, and Yale University.
- David Sears
David Sears was a prominent 19th century Boston merchant and landowner. He developed a substantial part of nearby Brookline, Massachusetts. His former Beacon Hill home is now the location of the Somerset Club.
- Stephen W. Sears
Stephen Ward Sears (b. July 27, 1932) is an American historian specializing in the American Civil War. A graduate of Lakewood High School and Oberlin College, Sears attended a journalism seminar at Radcliffe-Harvard. He was employed as editor of the Educational Department at the American Heritage Publishing Company. Sears resides in Norwalk, Connecticut.
- Winsome Sears
Winsome Earle Sears is a former Republican state delegate in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
- William J. Sears
William Joseph Sears (December 4, 1874 - March 30, 1944) was a U.S. Representative from Florida. Born in Smithville, Georgia, Sears moved with his parents to Ellaville, Georgia, and thence to Kissimmee, Florida, in January 1881. He attended the public schools. He was graduated from Florida State College at Lake City in 1895 and from Mercer University, Macon, Georgia, in 1896. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1905 and commenced practice in Kissimmee, Florida.
- Lorenzo Sears
Lorenzo Sears, A.M., Litt.D. (1838-1916) was an American historian and biographer, born at Searsville, Massachusetts (part of Williamsburg). He graduated at Yale in 1861 and at the General Theological Seminary, New York in 1864. He was rector of various parishes in New England until 1885. In the years from 1885 to 1906 he served as professor at the University of Vermont (1885-88) and at Brown University (1890-1906).
- Ted Sears
Ted Sears (March 13, 1900 - August 22, 1958) was an American animator during The Golden Age of American animation. Sears worked for the Fleischer Studios in the late-1920s and early-1930s, and later became a storyboard artist at the Walt Disney studio. At Disney, Sears did significant story work on many Disney features, such as "Pinocchio", "Cinderella", and "Alice in Wonderland".
- David Sears
David Sears is the boss of the Super Nova GP2 team. He also managed drivers such as Jan Magnussen, Taki Inoue and Vincenzo Sospiri. He turned down the chance to buy Simtek at the end of 1994.
- Val Sears
Val Sears is an eminent Canadian journalist. Widely recognized of one of the most important political journalists of his day, he has long experience as reporter, editor, Ottawa Bureau Chief and foreign correspondent in London, England and Washington, D.C. for the Toronto Star. Val Sears has won numerous awards for his reporting including a National Newspaper Award for feature writing and for news as well as a science writing Award.
- Michael M. Sears
Michael M. Sears is a former Boeing executive. In 1997, Mr. Sears was President of the Douglas Aircraft Company division of McDonnell Douglas. In 2003, Mr. Sears was Boeing CFO. Boeing terminated Mr. Sears on November 24, 2003 as the result of corruption allegations relating to the improper hiring of Darleen Druyun. For his part in the Darleen Druyun scandal, Mr. Sears was sentenced to four months in prison, a $250,000 fine, and 200 hours of community service.
- Barry Sears
Barry Sears is a biochemist and nutrition scientist. He is most popular for creating and promoting the Zone diet, a diet aimed at achieving stable blood sugar levels and hormonal balance. The diet, Sears has stated in several of his books, was born of his desire to avoid dying of a heart attack, a fate that all other men in his family had been victims of. In more recent years, …
- Robin Sears
Robin Sears is a veteran communications, marketing and public affairs advisor with experience on three continents for public and private sector clients. Sears joined Navigator as a partner in strategic communications in 2004. Since then he has lead Navigator client teams in healthcare, financial services, and in the film and television industry, amongst others. Sears has worked on public policy issues and public affairs issue management since the late 1970s.
- Fred F. Sears
Fred F. Sears (1913-1957) was an American film actor and director. Though a marginalized figure in 1950s cinema, he created 52 feature films in a number of genres for Columbia Pictures from 1949 to 1957, before his untimely death at the young age of 44.
- Andrew Sears
Andrew Sears is a Professor and Chair of the Information Systems Department at UMBC. He is also the Director of the Interactive Systems Research Center. His research explores issues related to human-computer interaction including mobile computing, speech recognition, information technology accessibility, and situationally-induced impairments and disabilities.
- Thomas Warren Sears
Thomas Warren Sears (December 15, 1880 - June 1966) was a noted American landscape architect. Sears was born in Brookline, Massachusetts to Alexander Pomeroy and Elizabeth Prescott (Jones) Sears. He received his A.B. in 1903 from Harvard College, followed in 1906 by his B.S. in Landscape Architecture as a member of Harvard's first graduating class in the field. After establishing an office in Providence, Rhode Island, …