Melancthon Woolsey Stryker (January 7, 1851 – December 6, 1929), an American clergyman, was pastor of the Fourth Presbyterian Church in Chicago and president of Hamilton College in upstate New York from 1892 to 1917.

[3][citation needed] He left that position to become the ninth president of his alma mater, Hamilton College in 1893, and served there until 1917.

[6][7] As Hamilton's president, Stryker strongly defended the traditional approach to a liberal arts education, and preserved the teaching of the classics.

With Hubert Platt Main, he jointly edited The Church Praise Book (1882) and contributed 9 original pieces, and the New Alleluia (1880–86).

Stryker also edited Christian Chorals, for the Chapel and Fireside (1885), and Church Song (1889; including 19 original contributions).