Leonard Woods (November 24, 1807 – December 24, 1878)[1] was the fourth president of Bowdoin College.

Born in Newbury, Massachusetts, Woods attended Phillips Andover Academy before graduating from Union College in 1827[2] with Phi Beta Kappa honors and membership in Kappa Alpha Society.

During his tenure, the College built Appleton Hall, the Chapel, and Adams Hall, which housed the Medical School of Maine and the undergraduate laboratories.

Woods was a recipient of advanced degrees from Colby College, Harvard University, and Bowdoin.

Woods, "while an object of suspicion to many contemporaries because of his pronounced opposition to the abolitionist movement," was remembered as "an inspiring teacher and a man of unusual breadth of scholarship and culture.