Aylmer Cavendish Pearson CMG (5 August 1876 – 15 March 1926) was a British colonial administrative officer who served as Governor of North Borneo from 1915–1922 and from 1925–26.

He was educated at Felsted School, and at Trinity College, Dublin.

[1][2][3] Pearson joined the British North Borneo Service in 1897 as a cadet.

[3] He served in various posts including assistant Treasurer (1899); Resident, Kudat (1901); Secretary to the Government (1904); sessions judge (1905); member of the Executive Council (1906); acting Judicial Commissioner and acting Commissioner of Lands (1908); Secretary to the Government and judge of the High Court of North Borneo (1909).

He died on 15 March 1926 in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia, aged 49.