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:

    Maternity is on the face of it an unsocial experience. The selfishness that a woman has learned to stifle or to dissemble where she alone is concerned, blooms freely and unashamed on behalf of her offspring.
    —Emily James Putnam (1865–1944)