Gordon Keith Chalmers (7 February 1904 in Waukesha, Wisconsin – 8 May 1956 in Hyannis, Massachusetts) was a scholar of seventeenth-century English thought and letters, president of Rockford College and Kenyon College, and a national leader in American higher education.
Returning to the United States, he entered Harvard University, where he earned a master's degree and his Ph.D. in 1933 with a three-volume thesis on "Sir Thomas Browne's thought and its relation to contemporary ideas".
Chalmers was appointed as an instructor in English at Mount Holyoke College in 1929, and was promoted to assistant professor in 1933.
While at Kenyon, Chalmers was responsible for a remarkable transformation of the College, recruiting for it a wide range of prominent scholars.
Through Chalmers, Kenyon also became the birthplace of the Advanced Placement Program of the College Entrance Examination Board.