University of Maryland Presidents 1859—Present

• C.D. "Dan" Mote, Jr. (1998 - present)

• William English Kirwan (1989 - 1998)

Past chancellors of the University of Maryland

• John B. Slaughter (1982 - 1988)
• William English Kirwan (acting chancellor, 1982)
• Robert L. Gluckstern (1975 - 1982)
• John W. Dorsey (acting chancellor, 1974 - 1975)
• Charles E. Bishop (1970 - 1974)

Past presidents of the University of Maryland

• Wilson Homer "Bull" Elkins (1954 - 1978)
• Thomas B. Symons (acting president, 1954)
• Harry Clifton "Curley" Byrd (1935 - 1954)
• Raymond A. Pearson (1926 - 1935)

• Albert F. Woods (1917-1926)
• Harry J. Patterson (1913 - 1917)
• Thomas A. Spence (acting president, 1912 - 1913)
• Richard W. Silvester (1892 - 1912)
• Henry E. Alvord (1888 - 1892)
• Allen Dodge (acting president, 1887 - 1888)
• Augustine J. Smith (1882 - 1887)
• William H. Parker (1875 - 1882)
• Samuel Jones (1873 - 1875)
• Samuel Register (1869 - 1873)
• Franklin Buchanan (1868 - 1869)
• Charles L. C. Minor (1867 - 1868)
• George Washington Custis Lee (1867)
• Nicholas B. Worthington (acting president, 1864 - 1867)
• Henry Onderdonk (1861 - 1864)
• John M. Colby (1860 - 1861)
• Charles Benedict Calvert (acting president, 1860)
• John Work Scott (1860)
• Benjamin Hallowell (1859 - 1860)