Alfred J. Pearson (September 29, 1869 – August 10, 1939) was a Swedish born-American educator and diplomat.

[1] Alfred John Pearson was born at Landskrona, Sweden.

His family immigrated when he was an infant, eventually settling in Kansas in 1875.

[1] Pearson was an instructor at Upsala College in Essex County, New Jersey from 1896 to 1898.

Pearson joined the faculty at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa as a professor of German Language and Literature in 1907.