Ernest Shearer FRSE (1879–14 September 1945) was a British agriculturalist and academic.
In 1897 he went to the University of Edinburgh graduating with an MA in Economics followed by a BSc in agriculture in 1904.
In 1911 he became technical adviser to the Ministry of Agriculture in Egypt.
He was also appointed Principal of the College of Agriculture in Giza.
His proposers were Alexander Lauder, Sir James Walker, Anderson Gray McKendrick, and Ralph Allan Sampson.