Pierre Jay (May 4, 1870 – November 24, 1949)[1] was the first chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Among his siblings was Mary Rutherfurd Jay, one of America's earliest landscape architects.

[1] After Yale, he was associated with Post and Flagg, bankers in New York and served as vice president of the Old Colony Trust Company in Boston, from 1903 to 1906.

Jay also became the first-ever chairman of the New York Federal Reserve in 1913 after its formation until January 1, 1927, when he was sent to Berlin to be the American member of the transfer committee under the Dawes Plan.

Together, they were the parents of: Jay died at his home, 133 East 64th Street in New York City on November 24, 1949.