title: Pierpont
text: # Pierpont
  
  Pierpont may refer to:
  
  ## Surname
  
  * Francis Harrison Pierpont (1814–1899), Governor of Virginia
  * Harry Pierpont (1902–1934), Prohibition-era gangster
  * James Pierpont (minister) (1659–1714), founder of Yale University
  * James Lord Pierpont (1822–1893), musician and soldier
  * James Pierpont (mathematician) (1866–1938), American mathematician
  * John Pierpont (1785–1866), American poet, teacher, lawyer, merchant, and minister
  * Lena Pierpont (1883–1958), Prohibition-era figure
  * Pierpont (Australian Financial Review) (born 1937), alter-ego of Trevor Sykes, financial journalist
  
  ## Middle name
  
  * John Pierpont Morgan (1837–1913), American financier and banker
  * John Pierpont Morgan, Jr. (1867–1943), American banker, finance executive, and philanthropist
  * Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834–1906), American astronomer, and physicist, inventor
  
  ## Places in the United States
  
  * Pierpont, South Dakota
  * Pierpont, Ohio
  * Pierpont Township, Ashtabula County, Ohio
  * Pierpont, Monongalia County, West Virginia
  * Pierpont, Wyoming County, West Virginia
  
  ## Educational institution
  
  * Pierpont Community and Technical College, West Virginia
  