Pierson (surname)
Pierson is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Abraham Pierson, the elder, English pastor in New England
- Abraham Pierson, pastor, and first rector and a founder of what would become Yale University, son of Abraham Pierson, the elder
- Arthur Tappan Pierson, Presbyterian pastor and author
- Christoffel Pierson, Dutch painter
- Clara D. Pierson, American children's book author
- Don Pierson, American broadcasting pioneer
- Emma Pierson, British actress
- Frank Pierson, American film director
- Henry Hugh Pierson, composer
- Henry R. Pierson, New York politician
- Isaac Pierson. Representative to US Congress from New Jersey
- Julia Pierson, the 23rd Director of the U. S. Secret Service
- Kate Pierson, American singer, of The B-52's
- Leander J. Pierson, American politician
- Melissa Holbrook Pierson, American author
- Nicolaas Pierson, the 23rd Prime Minister of the Netherlands
- Philippe Pierson, Belgian Jesuit
- Rex Pierson, English aircraft designer
- Robert H. Pierson, former president of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
- William Pierson, American actor
- William Pierson, Jr., American painter
- William Pierson , American baseball player
- William Montgomery Pierson, American jurist, senator, co-founder of the San Francisco Bar Association, and notable amateur astronomer
