Henry Mitchell MacCracken (September 28, 1840 – December 24, 1918) was an American educator and academic administrator.

Henry MacCracken was born in Oxford, Ohio on September 28, 1840.

[2] Henry MacCracken died in Orlando, Florida on December 24, 1918.

[3] He was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York City.

On a July 2013 episode of the satirical television program The Colbert Report, Henry Mitchel MacCracken, who penned a 1904 New York Times article on the moral risks of college men,[5] was comically portrayed as a still active Times trends section editor after the newspaper published a similarly themed article in 2013.