Charles Burt Gentry (1884–1955) was an American teacher-educator and two-time acting president of the University of Connecticut from September 1928 to July 1929[1] and again May–October 1935.

In 1895 he survived polio and consequently missed three years of school and walked only with effort, and a brace on his leg, for the rest of his life.

Starting that autumn, he spent a year as an associate professor of agricultural education at Rutgers University in 1919–1920.

Gentry arrived in Storrs in September 1920 as a professor of agricultural education and director of teacher training.

College historian Walter Stemmons described Gentry's caretaker presidency as a year of "progress and achievement.

He has made no attempt to dictate policy but has succeeded in establishing good will among students and faculty members and in maintaining the status quo.