Selim Hobart Peabody (August 20, 1829 – May 26, 1903) was an American educator.

[1] He graduated at the University of Vermont in 1852, during the following years held professorships of mathematics, physics, and engineering at several colleges, and from 1880 to 1891 was president of the University of Illinois.

In 1893, he was chief of the department of liberal arts at the World's Columbian Exposition, in 1899–1900 editor and statistician of the United States Commission to the Paris Exposition, and in 1900 superintendent of the division of liberal arts at the Pan-American Exposition.

Peabody was an associate editor of the International Cyclopædia, under Editor-in-Chief Harry Thurston Peck.

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