List of University of Arizona people

List of presidents

The following persons served as president of University of Arizona:^[1]

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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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Academia

• Alejandro Aceves (PhD 1988) – professor of mathematics at Southern Methodist University
• Martin Z. Bazant (BS 1992, MS 1993) – E. G. Roos (1944) Chair Professor of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
• Raymond S. Brandes – professor of history and archeology, University of San Diego^[39]
• Noam Chomsky – UA Laureate Professor of Linguistics, Agnese Nelms Haury Chair^[40]
• James C. Cox – Noah Langdale Jr. Chair in Economics at Georgia State University
• Lee Giles (PhD 1981) – computer scientist, co-creator of CiteSeer, David Reese Professor of Information Sciences and Technology, Pennsylvania State University^[41]
• Ghanim Al-Jumaily (MS 1983) – professor of engineering, Southern New Hampshire University; former Iraqi diplomat^[42][43]
• Alan C. Newell – UA Regents Professor of Mathematics^[44]
• Ed Renwick (1968) – political scientist and television commentator in New Orleans, Louisiana^[45]
• Shauna Shapiro – professor of psychology, Santa Clara University^[46]
• Laurene Simms (PhD 2000) – educator and hearing advocate, chief bilingual officer at Gallaudet University
• David Soren (1983) – UA Regents Professor of Classics and director of the Orvieto Institute in Umbria^[47]
• Gordon Willey (BS 1935, MS 1936) – pioneer of processual archaeology, Harvard University professor^[48]
• Vladimir E. Zakharov – UA Regents Professor Emeritus of Mathematics^[49]

Arts and media

Business

Law, politics, and government

Religion

• Spencer W. Kimball – former president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints^[133]
• David Roseberry – Anglican priest and founder of Christ Church Plano^[134]
• Frederick Wedge – Presbyterian pastor and educator, professional boxer^[135]

Science and technology

Sports

Other

• Laurie Dann – murderer^[271]
• Allison Feldman – murder victim, namesake of Study Abroad Scholarship^[272]