Andrew Dickson White (November 7 1832 - November 4 1918) was a U.S. diplomat, author, and educator, best known as the co-founder of Cornell University. White was born in Homer, New York. After spending one year at Hobart College (then known as Geneva College), he transferred to Yale University. At Yale, he was a classmate of Daniel Coit Gilman, who would later serve as first president of Johns Hopkins University. The two were members of the Skull and Bones secret society, …

David J. Skorton became Cornell University's 12th president on July 1, 2006 and was formally inaugurated in ceremonies on Cornell's Ithaca campus on September 7, 2006. President Skorton holds faculty appointments in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at Weill-Cornell Medical College (WCMC) in New York City and in Biomedical Engineering at the College of Engineering on Cornell's Ithaca campus. Cornell University President David J. Skorton

Frank Harold Trevor Rhodes (b. 1926) was the ninth president of Cornell University from 1977 to 1995. Rhodes was born in Warwickshire, England on October 29, 1926. He attended the University of Birmingham, graduating in 1948 with a Bachelor of Science degree. He also holds three other degrees from Birmingham, including a Doctor of Philosophy. He held a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Illinois in 1950, which he held for a year.

Hunter R. Rawlings III was appointed Cornell University's tenth president on December 10, 1994, and took office on July 1, 1995. His administration saw the restoration of central campus: the transformation of Sage Hall into the new home of the Johnson Graduate School of Management; the conversion of Tjaden Hall for the Department of Art; and the renovation of Lincoln Hall for music students and faculty. The Laboratory of Ornithology opened a magnificent new building.

Jacob Gould Schurman (May 22, 1854 - August 12, 1942), American educationist, was born at Freetown, Prince Edward Island of Dutch descent, his Loyalist ancestors having left New York in 1784. While a student at Acadia College, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, in 1875, he won the Canadian Gilchrist scholarship in the University of London, from which he received the degree of BA in 1877 and that of MA in 1878, and in 1877-1880 studied in Paris, …

Charles Kendall Adams (1835-1902) was an American educator and historian. He served as the second president of Cornell University from 1885 until 1892, and as president of the University of Wisconsin from 1892 until his death. Born in Derby, Vermont, Adams studied with Andrew Dickson White, Cornell's first president, at the University of Michigan. Adams then taught history at Michigan until his appointment as president of Cornell.

Deane Waldo Malott (July 10, 1898-September 11, 1996) was an American academic and administrator. The son of a banker, Malott was born in Abilene, Kansas and went on to study at the University of Kansas. While at school there, he wrote for the University Daily Kansan and was a brother in the Beta Theta Pi fraternity. He graduated in 1921 and went on to the Harvard Business School.

James A. Perkins (1911-1998) was the seventh president of Cornell University. Born in 1911 in Philadelphia, Perkins graduated with high honors in 1934 from Swarthmore College and received a doctorate in political science from Princeton University in 1937.

Dale R. Corson (b. 1914) was the eighth president of Cornell University. Born in Pittsburg, Kansas, in 1914, Corson received a B.A. degree from the College of Emporia in 1934, his M.A. degree from the University of Kansas in 1935, and his Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1938. In 1946 Corson came to Cornell University as an assistant professor of physics and helped design the Cornell synchrotron.

Theodore Paul Wright (May 25, 1895 - August 21, 1970) was a U.S. aeronautical engineer and educator. Born in Galesburg, Illinois, he served as acting president of Cornell University in 1951. His brothers were the geneticist Sewall Wright, and the political scientist Quincy Wright. T. P. Wright is famous for the discussion of the learning curve in aircraft industry.

Daniel Coit Gilman Daniel Coit Gilman ( 1831 - 1908 ) was an American educator. Born in Norwich, Connecticut , Gilman graduated from Yale College in 1852 with a degree in geography. At Yale he was a classmate of Andrew Dickson White , who would later serve as first president of Cornell University . The two were members of the Skull and Bones secret society, and would remain close friends.

Daniel Coit Gilman's brother, Rev. Edward W. Gilman, was married to Benjamin Silliman (S&B 1837) Jr.' s sister, Julia Silliman (Died. Gilman. - New York Times, Apr. 20, 1892, p.5.) D.C. Gilman's sister, Elizabeth Coit Gilman, was married to Rev. Joseph Parrish Thompson, S&B 1838 (Married.

Charles Kendall Adams (Jan. 24, 1835 to July 26, 1902) had been a student of the AHA's first president, Andrew Dickson White. He taught for a number of years at the University of Michigan, before succeeding White as president of Cornell University in 1885. His most noted work was a Manual of Historical Literature (3rd ed., 1889) which provided annotated listings of the most important historical works in English, French, and German, as well as guides to programs of historical study.