James Bradstreet Greenough (May 4, 1833 – October 11, 1901) was an American classical scholar.
Life
James B. Greenough was born in Portland, Maine on May 4, 1833. He graduated at Harvard in 1856, studied one year at the Harvard Law School, was admitted to the Michigan bar and practised in Marshall, Michigan, until 1865, when he was appointed tutor in Latin at Harvard. In 1873 he became assistant professor.
He advocated for the admission of women to Harvard, and in 1882 became a director of the society which later founded Radcliffe College.