Philip Shelton Sears (November 12, 1867 – March 10, 1953) was an American tennis player and sculptor.

He was the son of Frederic Richard Sears and Albertina Homer Shelton.

His twin brother was Herbert M. Sears, and older brother Richard Sears, was also a tennis player, and won the US Open singles in its first seven years, from 1881 to 1887, and the doubles for six years from 1882 to 1887, after which he retired from tennis.

[1] In 1884 he played his first singles event at the Longwood Cricket Club Tournament, the same year he was a losing finalist at the Lenox Invitation to Walter Van Rensselaer Berry.

[4] In 2007, the original statue from which the one at Fruitlands Museum was used to create its current life-sized Pumanangwet (He Who Shoots the Stars), sold for $11,250 at Christie's in Beverly Hills;[5] the life-size version, placed in the 1920s and pictured, left, is located at the Fruitlands Museum in Harvard, MA.