List of presidents of the University of Chicago

The following is a list of presidents of the University of Chicago.^[1]

The title of the university's chief executive was provisionally changed to "Chancellor" between 1945 and 1960.^[2][3]

List of presidents

No.	Image	Name	From	To	Ref.
1		William Rainey Harper	July 1, 1891	January 10, 1906	[4][5]
acting		Harry Pratt Judson	January 16, 1906	February 20, 1907	[6]
2			February 20, 1907	February 19, 1923	[7][8][9]
acting		Ernest DeWitt Burton	February 20, 1923	July 12, 1923	[8]
3			July 12, 1923	May 26, 1925	[10][11][12]
acting		Frederic Woodward	May 27, 1925	September 30, 1925	[13]
4		Max Mason	October 1, 1925	June 14, 1928	[14][15][16]
acting		Frederic Woodward	June 15, 1928	June 30, 1929	[17]
5		Robert Maynard Hutchins	July 1, 1929	December 31, 1950	[18][19][20]
acting		Ernest C. Colwell	January 1, 1951	April 12, 1951	[21]
acting		Lawrence A. Kimpton	April 12, 1951	October 18, 1951	[22]
6			October 18, 1951	September 7, 1960	[23][24][25]
acting		R. Wendell Harrison	September 8, 1960	March 2, 1961	[26]
7		George W. Beadle	March 3, 1961	November 13, 1968	[27][28][29]
8		Edward H. Levi	November 14, 1968	February 5, 1975	[30][31][32]
acting		John T. Wilson	February 6, 1975	December 9, 1975	[33][34]
9			December 9, 1975	June 30, 1978	[35]
10		Hanna Holborn Gray	July 1, 1978	June 30, 1993	[36][37][38]
11		Hugo Sonnenschein	July 1, 1993	June 30, 2000	[39][40]
12		Don Michael Randel	July 1, 2000	June 30, 2006	[41][42][43]
13		Robert Zimmer	July 1, 2006	August 31, 2021	[44][45][46]
14		Paul Alivisatos	September 1, 2021	incumbent	[47]