2013 -current: Rebecca Blank, chancellor
2011-2013: David Ward, interim chancellor
2008-2011: Carolyn "Biddy" Martin, chancellor
2001-2008: John Wiley, chancellor
1993-2000: David Ward, chancellor
1988-1993: Donna E. Shalala, chancellor
1987: Bernard Cohen, acting chancellor
1977-1986: Irving Shain, chancellor
1977: Glenn S. Pound, acting chancellor
1968-1977: Edwin Young, chancellor
1968: Bryant Kearl, acting chancellor
1967-1968: William Sewell, chancellor
1964-1967: Robben Fleming, chancellor
1963-1964: Robert L. Clodius, acting provost
1962-1970: Fred Harvey Harrington, president*
1958-1962: Conrad Elvehjem, president
1945-1958: Edwin Broun Fred, president
1937-1945: Clarence Dykstra, president
1937: George C. Sellery, acting president
1925-1937: Glenn Frank, president
1918-1925: Edward A. Birge, president
1903-1918: Charles Van Hise, president
1901-1903: Edward A. Birge, acting president
1892-1901: Charles K. Adams, president
1887-1892: Thomas C. Chamberlin, president
1874-1887: John A. Bascom, president
1871-1874: John W. Twombly, president
1867-1870: Paul A. Chadbourne, president
1860-1867: John W. Sterling, executive officer
1859-1860: Henry Barnard, president
1849-1858: John Hiram Lathrop, chancellor
* Administrative structure changed in 1964
Source: University of Wisconsin-Madison Almanac, 1998