Pierce

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Pierce is primarily a personal name, a cognate of French Pierre ("Peter"), but has several additional uses aside:

as a personal name

• Benjamin Peirce, American mathematician whose family name is often mis-spelled 'Pierce'
• Charles Sanders Peirce, American logician whose family name is often mis-spelled 'Pierce'
• Evan Pierce
• Kimberly Peirce, American film director whose family name is often mis-spelled 'Pierce'
• Franklin Pierce (1804–1869), the fourteenth President of the United States
• Jane Pierce (1806–1863), wife of President Franklin Pierce
• Charles Pierce (1926–1999), American female impersonator
• Charlie Pierce (born 1953), American sportswriter
• Mary Pierce (born 1975), French tennis player
• Tamora Pierce (born 1954), American fantasy author
• William Luther Pierce (1933–2002), American physicist, Nazi political activist and White supremacist
• William G. Pierce (born 1952), American engineer and politician
• Pierce Brosnan (born 1953), Irish actor
• Pierce Butler, a Founding Father of the United States
• Paul Pierce (born 1977), American Basketball Player
• David Hyde Pierce (born 1959), American actor
• John Robinson Pierce (1910–2002), American Engineer

as a fictional personal name

• Benjamin Franklin “Hawkeye” Pierce, a central character on the former American book, film and television franchise M*A*S*H
• Aaron Pierce, a longtime supporting character on the TV show 24

as the name of an organization

• Pierce Biotechnology, an American manufacturer of protein research tools, a unit of Fisher Biosciences
• Pierce Manufacturing, an American manufacturer of fire trucks
• Pierce Processing, Inc., an American engineering consulting firm
• Franklin Pierce Law Center, an American Law School

• Pierce's disease, a grape disease,

[edit] See also

• Piercing
• Piers Ploughman
• Pierce County