Myra Smith Kearse (May 18, 1899 – February 14, 1982) was an American physician and community leader in New Jersey.

[6] Kearse was the first African American woman physician in Union County, New Jersey when she began to practice there in 1938.

[7] She held a patent on a "pocket calendar device with punch means" for tracking one's menstrual cycle.

[14] Myra Lyle Smith married Robert Freeman Kearse, postmaster of Vauxhall, New Jersey.

[17] The Myra Smith Kearse Community Center in Union County, and a scholarship fund, were named in her honor.