List of Amherst College people

Notable alumni

College founders and presidents

• Edward Jones 1826, Principal of forerunner of Fourah Bay College (the predecessor of the University of Sierra Leone) (Africa)
• Patrick Hues Mell 1833, Chancellor of the University of Georgia
• Benjamin M. Palmer ex 1836, founder of predecessor of Rhodes College
• Edward Duffield Neill 1842, first Chancellor, University of Minnesota, 1858–1861; founder, first president, and professor, Macalester College
• Edward Joseph Cornish 1845, president of Jefferson College
• William S. Clark 1848, second president of the Massachusetts Agricultural College (now the University of Massachusetts Amherst), co-founder of Sapporo Agricultural College (now Hokkaido University) in Japan
• Julius Hawley Seelye 1849, fifth president of Amherst College (implemented the Latin honors system)
• Reverend Daniel Bliss 1852, founder and president of American University of Beirut (1866–1902)
• Reverend George Dana Pepper 1857, president of Colby College
• Henry Martin Tupper 1859, founder of Shaw University
• Francis Amasa Walker 1860, third president of MIT (1881–1897)
• George Harris 1866, seventh......
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