Joseph Gordon Hoyt

First Chancellor, 1858-62

William Chauvenet

Second Chancellor, 1862-69

William Greenleaf Eliot

Third Chancellor, 1870-87

Winfield Scott Chaplin

Fourth Chancellor, 1891-1907

David F. Houston

Fifth Chancellor, 1908-17

Frederic Aldin Hall

Sixth Chancellor, 1913-23

Herbert S. Hadley

Seventh Chancellor, 1923-27

George R. Throop

Eighth Chancellor, 1927-44

Arthur Holly Compton

Ninth Chancellor, 1945-53

Ethan A.H. Shepley

Tenth Chancellor, 1953-61

Carl Tolman

Eleventh Chancellor, 1961-62

Thomas H. Eliot

Twelfth Chancellor, 1962-71

William H. Danforth

Thirteenth Chancellor, 1971-95

Mark S. Wrighton

Fourteenth Chancellor, 1995 – 2019