Green Pinckney Russell (1861/1863–1939),[2][1] was an American teacher, principal, school district supervisor, and college president.

[3] Russell was the first "Supervisor of Negro Schools" in Lexington, and he served two-terms as president of Kentucky State Industrial College for Colored Persons (now Kentucky State University).

Green Pinckney Russell was born on December 25 in either 1861 or 1863 in Logan County, Kentucky.

[2][1] He attended public schools in Russellville, Kentucky,[1] and went on to graduate from Berea College (1885), and Wilberforce University (1913).

1, was renamed the Russell School by the mayor H. C. Duncan of Lexington.