List of presidents of Cornell University

The President of Cornell University is the chief administrator of Cornell University, an Ivy League institution in Ithaca, New York.

Included in the list below are all Presidents of Cornell University, from Andrew Dickson White, the university's co-founder and first president from 1865 to 1888, through the Michael Kotlikoff, who was appointed interim president of the university in 2024 following the resignation of Martha Pollack.

New York's only land-grant university, Cornell University was founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White.

Its main campus is in Ithaca, New York]].

Its medical school, Weill Cornell Medicine, is located in Manhattan, New York City, and it also maintains a facility in the Education City section Qatar.

The Arts Quad on the campus of Cornell University , with a statue of Andrew Dickson White , Cornell's first president, in the foreground