Henry Dunster is the first president of Harvard College.

He is succeeded by Charles Chauncy (1654), Leonard Hoar (1672), Uriah Oakes (1675), John Rogers (1682), Increase Mather (1685), Samuel Willard (1701*), John Leverett (1708*), Benjamin Wadsworth (1725), Edward Holyoke (1737), Samuel Locke (1770), Samuel Langdon (1774), Joseph Willard (1781), Eliphalet Pearson (1804), Samuel Webber (1806), John Kirkland (1810*), Josiah Quincy (1829*), Edward Everett (1846), Jared Sparks (1849), James Walker (1853), Cornelius Felton (1860) Rev. Thomas Hill (1862), Charles Eliot (1869*), Lawrence Lowell (1909*), James Bryant Conant (1933*), Nathan Pusey (1953*), Derek Bok (1971), Neil Rudenstine (1991), Lawrence Summers (2001), Drew Gilpin Faust (2007*), Lawrence Bacow (2018), Claudine Gay (2023*), and Alan Garber (2024).