- Andrew Dickson White 1866 – 1885
- Charles Kendall Adams 1885 – 1892
- Jacob Gould Schurman 1892 – 1920
- Livingston Farrand 1921 – 1937
- Edmund Ezra Day 1937 – 1949
- Cornelis de Kiewiet 1949 – 1951
- Deane Waldo Malott 1951 – 1963
- James Alfred Perkins 1963 – 1969
- Dale R. Corson 1969 – 1977
- Frank H. T. Rhodes 1977 – 1995
- Hunter R. Rawlings III 1995 – 2003
- Jeffrey S. Lehman 2003 – 2005
- David J. Skorton 2006 – 2015
- Elizabeth Garrett 2015 – 2016
- Martha E. Pollack 2017 – Present
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