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Yale Presidents

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Peter Salovey
Peter Salovey (/ˈsæləveɪ/; born February 21, 1958) is an American social psychologist and current President of Yale University. He previously served as Yale's Provost, Dean of Yale Graduate School of...
Rick Levin
Richard Charles Levin (born April 7, 1947) is an American economist and academic administrator. From 1993 to 2013, he was the 22nd President of Yale University. From March 2014 to June 2017, he was C...
Howard R. Lamar
Howard Roberts Lamar (born November 18, 1923) is an American historian of the American West. In addition to being Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University since 1994, he served as Ac...
Benno C. Schmidt Jr.
. Benno Charles Schmidt Jr. (born March 20, 1942) is the Chairman of Avenues: The World School, a for-profit, private K-12 school, and served as the chairman of the Board of Trustees of the City Unive...
Hanna Holborn Gray
Hanna Holborn Gray (born October 25, 1930) is an American historian of Renaissance and Reformation political thought and Professor of History Emerita at the University of Chicago. She served as presi...

Abraham Pierson (1641–1707) (1701–1707) Collegiate School
Samuel Andrew (1656–1738) (1707–1719; pro tempore)
Timothy Cutler (1684–1765) (1719–1726) 1718/9: renamed Yale College
Elisha Williams (1694–1755) (1726–1739)
Thomas Clap (1703–1767) (1740–1766)
Naphtali Daggett (1727–1780) (1766–1777; pro tempore) - presidency during the American Revolution
Ezra Stiles (1727–1795) (1778–1795) - presidency during the American Revolution
Timothy Dwight IV (1752–1817) (1795–1817)
Jeremiah Day (1773–1867) (1817–1846)
Theodore Dwight Woolsey (1801–1889) (1846–1871)
Noah Porter III (1811–1892) (1871–1886)
Timothy Dwight V (1828–1916) (1886–1899) 1887: renamed Yale University
Arthur Twining Hadley (1856–1930) (1899–1921)
James Rowland Angell (1869–1949) (1921–1937)
Charles Seymour (1885–1963) (1937–1951)
Alfred Whitney Griswold (1906–1963) (1951–1963)
Kingman Brewster, Jr. (1919–1988) (1963–1977)
Hanna Holborn Gray (1930– ) (1977–1978; pro tempore)
A. Bartlett Giamatti (1938–1989) (1978–1986)
Benno C. Schmidt, Jr. (1942– ) (1986–1992)
Howard R. Lamar (1923– ) (1992–1993; acting)
Richard C. Levin (1947– ) (1993–2013 )
Peter Salovey (1958– ) (2013–present )