In sports •
Alan Shearer (born 1970), English footballer •
Andrew Shearer (lumber merchant) (1864–1944), Canadian lumber merchant and amateur ice hockey player •
Bob Shearer (1948–2022), Australian golfer and golf course architect •
Bob Shearer (footballer) (1892–1957), Australian rules footballer •
Bobby Shearer (1931–2006), Scottish footballer •
Brad Shearer (born 1955), American football player •
Dale Shearer (born 1965), Australian rugby league player •
Dale Shearer (racing driver) (born 1959), American stock car racing driver •
Dave Shearer (1958–2022), Scottish footballer •
Donald Shearer (1909–1999), English amateur footballer and cricketer •
Duncan Shearer (born 1962), Scottish footballer •
Graeme Shearer (1948–1983), Australian rules footballer •
Jack Shearer (1896–1963), New Zealand rugby union player •
Jan Shearer (born 1958), New Zealand sailor •
Jock Shearer (1917–1979), Scottish football player and coach •
Lee Shearer (born 1977), English footballer •
Marshall L. Shearer (1901–1964), American football coach •
Matt Shearer (born 1973), Canadian lacrosse player •
Peter Shearer (born 1967), English footballer •
Ray Shearer (1929–1982), American baseball player •
Ray Shearer (footballer) (1924–1975), Australian rules footballer •
Rob Shearer (born 1976), Canadian ice hockey player •
Ronald Shearer (1905–1998), American football player •
Sam Shearer (1883–1971), Scottish footballer •
Scott Shearer (born 1981), Scottish footballer •
Sydney Shearer (1890–1973), New Zealand rugby union player •
Wally Shearer (1918–2000), Australian rules footballer
In politics and religion •
Bill Shearer (1931–2007), American attorney and political activist who founded the American Independent Party •
Conrad Shearer (1873–1948), American politician and businessman •
David Shearer (born 1957), New Zealand Leader of the Opposition and UN Deputy Special Representative to Iraq •
David Shearer (minister) (1832–1891), founder of the Presbyterian Church in Western Australia •
Hugh Shearer (1923–2004), Jamaican Prime Minister •
Ian Shearer (1941–2021), New Zealand, National Party politician •
Jack Shearer (priest) (1926–2001), Church of Ireland priest and Dean of Belfast cathedral •
Mark Shearer (born 1962), American politician •
Robert Austin Shearer (1868–1920), Ontario farmer and political figure •
Tony Shearer (1926–2002), American Mayanism proponent and New Age author •
Vernon Shearer, South African politician
In the arts •
Aaron Shearer (1919–2008), American classical guitarist and teacher •
Al Shearer (born 1977), American actor •
Allen Shearer (born 1943), American composer and baritone •
Andrew N. Shearer (born 1977), American filmmaker, journalist and punk rock musician •
Ariel Shearer (c. 1905-?), Australian concert pianist •
Athole Shearer (1900–1985), Canadian actress •
Barbara Shearer (1936–2005), American pianist •
Ben Shearer (born 1941), South Australian artist noted for outback watercolours •
Brandi Shearer (born 1980), American singer-songwriter •
Christopher Shearer (1846–1926), American landscape artist •
Dick Shearer (1940–1997), American jazz trombonist •
Harry Shearer (born 1943), American actor and comedian •
John Shearer (photographer, born 1947) (1947–2019), American photographer •
John D. Shearer (born 1980), American photographer •
Moira Shearer (1926–2006), Scottish actress and ballet dancer •
Norma Shearer (1902–1983), Canadian-American actress, sister of Athole •
Rhonda Roland Shearer, American sculptor and art historian •
Steven Shearer (born 1968), Canadian multimedia artist •
Sybil Shearer (1912–2005), Canadian modern dancer, writer, choreographer •
Ted Shearer (1919–1992), American advertising art director and cartoonist
Others •
Alex Shearer (born 1949), British novelist and scriptwriter •
Andrew Shearer (astrophysicist) (born 1953), Irish astrophysicist •
Blake Shearer (2002–2018), American murder victim •
Brooke Shearer (1950–2009), American private investigator, journalist and political aide •
Catriona Shearer, Scottish broadcast journalist and producer •
Charles L. Shearer (born 1942), American academic and university president •
Clea Shearer, American entrepreneur •
Cresswell Shearer (1874–1941), British zoologist •
David Shearer (engineer) (1850–1936), Australian inventor, agricultural implement manufacturer and steam car pioneer •
Derek Shearer (born 1946), American diplomat •
Douglas Shearer (1899–1971), Canadian-American motion picture sound engineer •
Elga Meta Shearer (1883–1967), American educator and textbook author •
Ernest Shearer (1879–1945) Scottish agriculturalist •
Gene Shearer (born 1937), American immunologist •
Hannah Louise Shearer (born 1945), American television writer •
Helena Shearer (c. 1842–1885), Irish socialist and suffragist •
David Shearer (engineer) (1850–1936), Australian inventor, agricultural implement manufacturer and steam car pioneer •
Ian Shearer, Lord Avonside (1914–1996), Scottish lawyer and judge •
John Shearer & Sons Australian farm machinery manufacturer •
Thomas Shearer, 18th-century English furniture designer •
Jacqueline Shearer (1946–1993), American documentary director and producer •
James Shearer (1881–1962) Scottish architect •
Jesse Lowen Shearer (1921–1992), American engineer •
Jim Shearer (born 1974), American television personality •
John Bunyan Shearer (1832–1919), American college president •
John Shearer (engineer) (1845–1932), Australian inventor and agricultural implement manufacturer •
Jonathan Shearer (born 1965), British media personality •
Lloyd Shearer (1916–2001), American celebrity gossip columnist •
Maurice E. Shearer (1879–1953), United States Marine Corps general •
Miranda Shearer (born 1982), English writer •
Sallie Shearer (c. 1848–1909), American brothel-keeper and wife of Christopher Shearer •
William Shearer (British Free Corps) (1917–1995), British Nazi collaborator •
William Shearer (immunologist) (1937–2018), American immunologist ==Given name==