Presidents of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
| Name | Years | Previous Position |
| • Rev. Dr. Samuel Blatchford | (1824–1828) | Pastor of the Lansingburgh and Waterford Church. |
| • John Chester | (1828–1829) | Pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church in Albany. |
| • Eliphalet Nott | (1829–1845) | Pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Albany. |
| • Nathan S.S. Beman | (1845–1865) | Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Troy. |
| • John F. Winslow | (1865–1868) | Businessman and iron manufacturer. |
| • Thomas C. Brinsmade | 1868 | Troy physician. |
| • James Forsyth | (1868–1886) | Attorney and Banker. |
| • William Gurley, 1839 | (1886–1887) (acting) | Businessman, co-founder of Gurley Precision Instruments |
| • Albert E. Powers | (1887–1888) (acting) | Banker |
| • John H. Peck | (1888–1901) | Attorney and judge. |
| • Palmer C. Ricketts | (1901–1934) | Professor of rational and technical mechanics and academic director of RPI. |
| • William O. Hotchkiss | (1935–1943) | President of the Michigan Mining School. |
| • Livingston W. Houston, 1913 | (1943–1958) | President and board chairman of the Ludlow Valve Manufacturing Co. and treasurer of RPI. |
| • Richard G. Folsom | (1958–1971) | Director of the Engineering Research Institute at the University of Michigan. |
| • Richard J. Grosh | (1971–1976) | Dean of the Schools of Engineering at Purdue University. |
| • George M. Low, 1948 | (1976–1984) | Deputy administrator of NASA. |
| • Daniel Berg | (1984–1985)(acting) (1985–1987) | Vice-President and Provost of RPI. |
| • Stanley I. Landgraf,1946 | (1988–1988)(acting) | Chairman of Mohasco Corporation |
| • Roland W. Schmitt | (1988–1993) | Senior vice president for science and technology for General Electric Co. |
| • R. Byron Pipes | (1993–1998) | Provost and professor of engineering at the University of Delaware. |
| • Cornelius J. Barton, 1958 | (1998–1999)(acting) | CEO of Dorr-Oliver Incorporated, a chemical engineering firm |
| • Shirley Ann Jackson | (1999– | Chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission |
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