James Pierpont

James Pierpont may refer to:

  • James Pierpont (Yale founder) (1659-1714), US Congregationalist minister and founder of Yale University
  • James Pierpont (musician) (1822-1893), American songwriter and composer
  • James Pierpont (mathematician) (1866-1938), American mathematician

Famous quotes containing the word james:

    Fowls in the frith,
    Fishes in the flood,
    And I must wax wod:
    Much sorrow I walk with
    For best of bone and blood.
    —Unknown. Fowls in the Frith. . .

    Oxford Book of Short Poems, The. P. J. Kavanagh and James Michie, eds. Oxford University Press.