Chester Noyes Greenough (June 29, 1874 – February 27, 1938) was a Professor of English and Dean at Harvard University.

Chester Noyes Greenough was born in Wakefield, Massachusetts, U.S., on June 29, 1874.

He taught at Harvard briefly before becoming head of the English Department at the University of Illinois in 1907.

[2] He became the first Master of Dunster House, a Harvard student residence, serving from 1930 to 1934.

One of his publications, History of Literature in America, which he authored with Barrett Wendell, became a popular textbook.