Spear (surname)
Spear is a surname deriving from Middle and Old English spere ("spear"), variously intending a spearman, a spearmaker, or a person considered tall and thin in a manner reminiscent of a spear. Notable people with the surname include: Albert Spear (1852–1929), justice on the Maine Supreme Judicial Court and President of the Maine Senate Allan Spear (1937–2008), American politician and educator from Minnesota Arthur Spear (1883–1946), English footballer Arthur Prince Spear (1879–1959), American painter Bernard Spear (1919–2003), English actor Bob Spear (1920–2014), founding director of the Birds of Vermont Museum, naturalist, birdwatcher and master woodcarver Burning Spear (born 1945), Jamaican roots rock reggae artist Catherine Swan Brown Spear (1813–1903), American reformer, educator, and abolitionist Charles Spear (1803–1863), American Universalist minister Chloe Spear (c.