Presidents of Brown University
- Ruth Simmons
- Sheila Blumstein (interim)
- Gordon Gee
- Vartan Gregorian
- Howard Robert Swearer
- Donald Frederick Hornig
- Ray L. Heffner
- Barnaby Conrad Keeney
- Henry Merritt Wriston
- Clarence Augustus Barbour
- William H. P. Faunce
- Elisha Benjamin Andrews
- Ezekiel Gilman Robinson
- Alexis Caswell
- Barnas Sears
- Francis Wayland
- Asa Messer
- Jonathan Maxcy
- James Manning
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