The following is a list of encyclopedic people associated with the University of Arizona. Notable alumni include a former U.S. Secretary of the Interior, a former U.S. Surgeon General, five U.S. senators, two Republican U.S. presidential nominees, the creator of the television series Sesame Street and founder of Sesame Workshop, the owner of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Major League Baseball team, and several NASA astronauts.
The following persons served as president of University of Arizona: [1]
| No. | Portrait | President | Term start | Term end | Refs. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | | Theodore B. Comstock | 1894 | 1895 | [2] |
| 2 | | Howard Billman | 1895 | 1897 | [3] |
| 3 | | Millard Mayhew Parker | 1897 | 1901 | [4] |
| 4 | | Frank Yale Adams | 1901 | 1903 | [5] |
| 5 | Kendric Charles Babcock | 1903 | 1910 | [6] | |
| Acting | | Andrew Ellicott Douglass | December 20, 1910 | March 10, 1911 | [7] |
| 6 | | Arthur Herbert Wilde | 1911 | 1914 | [8] |
| 7 | | Rufus Bernhard von KleinSmid | 1914 | 1921 | [9] |
| Acting | | Francis Cummins Lockwood | April 1922 | April 1922 | [10] |
| 8 | | Cloyd Heck Marvin | 1922 | 1927 | [11] |
| 9 | | Byron Cummings | 1927 | 1928 | [12] |
| 10 | | Homer LeRoy Shantz | 1928 | 1936 | [13] |
| 11 | | Paul Steere Burgess | 1936 | 1937 | [14] |
| 12 | | Alfred Atkinson | 1937 | 1947 | [15] |
| 13 | | James Byron McCormick | 1947 | 1951 | [16] |
| 14 | | Richard Anderson Harvill | 1951 | 1971 | [17] |
| 15 | | John Paul Schaefer | 1971 | 1982 | [18] |
| 16 | | Henry Koffler | 1982 | 1991 | [19] |
| 17 | | Manuel Trinidad Pacheco | 1991 | July 31, 1997 | [20] [21] [22] [23] |
| Interim | | Paul S. Sypherd | August 1, 1997 | September 30, 1997 | [24] [25] |
| 18 | | Peter Likins | October 1, 1997 | June 20, 2006 | [26] [27] [28] |
| 19 | | Robert Neal Shelton | July 1, 2006 | July 31, 2011 | [29] [30] |
| 20 [a] | | Eugene G. Sander | August 1, 2011 | June 30, 2012 | [31] [32] |
| 21 | | Ann Weaver Hart | July 1, 2012 | May 31, 2017 | [33] [34] [35] |
| 22 | | Robert C. Robbins | June 1, 2017 | September 30, 2024 | [36] [37] |
| 23 | | Suresh Garimella | October 1, 2024 | present | [38] |
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