| Name | Original chapter | Notability | References |
| Wilford S. Bailey | Delta (Honorary) | President of Auburn University | [1][2] |
| David Beckley | Psi Lambda | President of Rust College | [3][4] |
| K. Roald Bergethon | Alpha (Honorary) | President of Lafayette College (1958-1978) | [5][6] |
| Daniel Bernian | Lambda Pi | President of La Salle University (1958-1969) | [7] |
| Ward Gray Biddle | (Honorary) | Vice President of Indiana University, member Indiana House of Representatives 1931-1931, member Indiana Senate 1933–1937. | [8] |
| John Bonvillian | Theta Advisor | Professor at University of Virginia | [9] |
| George W. Bowman | Epsilon Psi (Honorary) | President of Kent State University (1944–1963). | [10] |
| John Gabbert Bowman | Beta | Tenth Chancellor (1921–1945) of the University of Pittsburgh and the ninth President (1911–1914) of the University of Iowa | [11] |
| Walter Brasch | Alpha Delta | social issues journalist and university professor of journalism. | [12] |
| Dean L. Bresciani | Xi Delta (Honorary) | 14th president of North Dakota State University | [13] |
| Clifton D. Bryant | | Professor of Sociology at Virginia Tech | [14] |
| Edward B. Bunn | Mu Alpha (Honorary) | President of Loyola University Maryland (1938-1947); president of Georgetown University (1952–1964); chancellor of Georgetown University (1964–1972) | [15] |
| Curley Byrd | Epsilon Mu (Honorary) | President of University of Maryland, College Park (1936–1954) | [16][17] |
| Harold C. Case | Zeta Upsilon (Honorary) | President of Boston University (1950–1967) | [18] |
| John E. Champion | | President of Florida State University (1965-1969) | [19] |
| Edward F. Clark | Omicron Sigma (Honorary) | President of Saint Peter's College, New Jersey (1960–1965) | [20] |
| Wat Tyler Cluverius Jr. | Sigma | Survivor of sinking of the USS Maine; Rear Admiral United States Navy; president of Worcester Polytechnic Institute (1939–1953). | [21] |
| Walter Coffey | Gamma Psi (Honorary) | President of University of Minnesota (1941–1945) | [22] |
| Arthur Compton | Alpha Phi (Honorary) | Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (1927) and chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis (1946–1953) | [23] |
| John E. Corbally | Gamma Alpha | Chancellor of Syracuse University (1969–1971), president of University of Illinois System (1971–1979), president of MacArthur Foundation (1979–1989) | [24] |
| George L. Cross | Delta Beta (Honorary) | President of University of Oklahoma (1943–1968) | [25] |
| Robert Crouch | Delta Psi | President of Rutledge College (1979) | [26] |
| Allan Cullimore | Lambda Delta Advisor | President of the New Jersey Institute of Technology | [27] |
| Harrison C. Dale | Gamma Nu (Honorary) | President of the University of Idaho (1937–1946) | [28] |
| John J. DeGioia | Mu Alpha (Honorary) | President of Georgetown University | [29] |
| George W. Diemer | Beta Kappa Advisor | President of Central Missouri State College (1937–1956) | [30] |
| Grover C. Dillman | (Honorary) | President of Michigan Technological University (1935–1956) | [31] |
| Quincy Doudna | | President of Eastern Illinois University (1956–1971) | [32] |
| Roy Ellis | Beta Mu (Honorary) | President Missouri State University (1926–1961) | [33] |
| Milton S. Eisenhower | | President of Kansas State University, Pennsylvania State University, and Johns Hopkins University | [34] |
| Wilson Homer Elkins | Alpha Rho, Epsilon Mu | President of University of Maryland, College Park (1954–1978) | [35][36] |
| John R. Emens | Delta Xi (Honorary) | President of Ball State University (1945–1968) | [37] |
| Francis D. Farrell | Pi (Honorary) | President of Kansas State University (1925–1943) | [38] |
| Steve A. Favors | Beta Delta Advisor | President of Grambling State University (1998–2001) | [39] |
| Charles Wesley Flint | Phi Advisor | American Bishop in the Methodist Church, elected in 1936; president of Cornell College (1915–1922); Chancellor of Syracuse University (1922–1936) | [40] |
| John Huston Finley | Unknown (Honorary) | President of the City College of New York, Commissioner of Education of the State of New York | [41] |
| William C. Friday | Rho (Honorary) | President of the University of North Carolina System (1956–1986) | [42] |
| Clifford C. Furnas | Unknown (Honorary) | Olympic athlete, president of SUNY Buffalo | [43] |
| Eugene Garbee | Mu Rho Advisor | President of Upper Iowa University (1952–1970) | [44] |
| Harrell E. Garrison | Beta Nu (Honorary) | President Northeastern State University | [45] |
| Charles Glassick | Iota Omicron (Honorary) | President of Gettysburg College (1977–1988). | [46] |
| Wallace Graves | Xi Nu (Honorary) | President of University of Evansville 1967–1987 | [47] |
| David M. Gring | Alpha Beta Psi (Honorary) | President of Roanoke College, 1989–2004 | [48] |
| José Ángel Gutiérrez | Delta Chi | Attorney and professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, founding member of the Mexican American Youth Organization (MAYO) in San Antonio in 1967, and a founding member and past president of the Raza Unida Party | [49] |
| T. Marshall Hahn | | President of Virginia Polytechnic Institute from 1962 to 1974 and CEO of Georgia-Pacific from 1983 to 1993 | [50] |
| John A. Hannah | Beta Beta | President of Michigan State University (1941–1969) | [51] |
| James P. Hannigan | Xi Delta | Brigadier general, United States Army; dean of students, Texas A&M University (1959–1973) | [52] |
| Carl Hanson | Iota Omicron (Honorary) | President of Gettysburg College (1961–1977) | [53] |
| Clifford M. Hardin | Alpha Sigma (Honorary) | Chancellor of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln (1954–1969); United States Secretary of Agriculture (1969–1971) | [54] |
| Henry Harmon | Omega (Honorary) | President of Drake University (1941–1964) | [55] |
| Gaylord Harnwell | Delta Zeta (Honorary) | President of University of Pennsylvania (1953–1970) | [56] |
| G. Alexander Heard | Theta Mu (Honorary) | Chancellor of Vanderbilt University (1963–1982) | [57] |
| Dennis L. Hefner | Chi Pi (Honorary) | President of SUNY Fredonia (1997–present) | [58] |
| John F. Herget | Alpha Mu Advisor | President of William Jewell College (1923–1943) | [59] |
| Richard Herman | Alpha Alpha (Honorary) | Chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2005— ), Distinguished Eagle Scout Award honoree | [60] |
| Frank Reed Horton | Alpha | Founder of Alpha Phi Omega, First Supreme Grand Master | [61] |
| George R. Houston, Jr. | Mu Alpha (Honorary) | President of Mount St. Mary's University (1994–2003) | [62] |
| Livingston W. Houston | Epsilon Zeta (Honorary) | President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1943–1958) | [63] |
| Frederick L. Hovde | Alpha Gamma (Honorary) | President of Purdue University (1946–1971) | [64] |
| Claude B. Hutchison | Iota Phi | Botanist, agricultural economist, educator, and Mayor of the City of Berkeley, California (1955–1963) | [65] |
| Ralph Cooper Hutchison | Alpha (Honorary) | President of Washington & Jefferson College and Lafayette College | [66] |
| Harold Hutson | Eta Psi Advisor (Honorary) | President of Lycoming College | [67] |
| Joseph S. Illick | Phi Advisor | Dean of the New York State College of Forestry (1944–51) | [68] |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson Jones | Chi Nu (Honorary) | Second president of Grambling State University(1936–1977) Also coached the Grambling State Tigers baseball team, member National College Baseball Hall of Fame | [69] |
| Robert B. Kamm | | 13th president of Oklahoma State University (1966-1977) | [70] |
| Robert E. Kennedy | Zeta Omicron Advisor | President of California Polytechnic State University (1967–1979) | [71][72] |
| Glenn Kendall | Eta Psi | President of California State University, Chico | [73] |
| Henry King Stanford | Alpha Pi | President of the University of Miami (1962–1981) | [74] |
| J. Martin Klotsche | Upsilon (Honorary) | President, provost, and chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (1946–1973) | [23] |
| A. Blair Knapp | Omicron Xi (Honorary) | President of Denison University (1951–1968); president of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (1951–1952) | [75] |
| Bradford Knapp | Delta (Honorary) | President of Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College (1923–1928); president of Alabama Polytechnic Institute (1928–1932) and president of Texas Technological College (1932–1938) | [1] |
| Martin Lancaster | Rho | Member of United States House of Representatives from North Carolina (1987–1995); North Carolina House of Representatives (1979–1986); president of North Carolina Community College System | [76] |
| Richard Landini | Beta Lambda (Honorary) | President of Indiana State University (1975–1992) | [77] |
| John F. Laughlin | Alpha Omega Advisor | President of Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine (1924–1945) | [78] |
| Karl C. Leebrick | Phi Advisor | President of Kent State University (1938–1943) | [79] |
| Jeffrey S. Lehman | Gamma | President of Cornell University (2003–2005) | [80] |
| L. Jay Lemons | Xi Iota (Honorary) | President of Susquehanna University (2001— ) | [81] |
| William Mather Lewis | Alpha (Honorary) | President of Lafayette College (1927–1945) | [82] |
| John V. Lombardi | Tau (Honorary) | President of the University of Florida (1990–1999), chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, president of Louisiana State University (2002— ) | [83] |
| John Henry MacCracken | Alpha | President of Lafayette College (1915–1926) | [84] |
| C. Peter Magrath | Gamma Psi (Honorary) | President of the University of Minnesota (1974–1984) and president of the University of Missouri (1985–1991) | [85] |
| Daniel L. Marsh | Zeta Upsilon (Honorary) | President of Boston University (1926–1951) | [86] |
| Henry J. Martin | Omicron Lambda (Honorary) | Acting president of Calumet College of St. Joseph (ca. 1965) | [87] |
| James A. McCain | Pi (Honorary) | President of Kansas State University (1950–1975) | [88] |
| Charles T. McDowell | Theta Tau Advisor | Professor emeritus and former director of the Center for Post-Soviet and Eastern European Studies at the University of Texas at Arlington | [89] |
| Patrick Joseph McCormick | Zeta Mu (Honorary) | 7th Rector of Catholic University of America (1943–1953) | [90] |
| Robert McMahan | Lambda Nu | President of Kettering University | [91][92] |
| Dan MacMillan | Xi Sigma | President of Bluefield College (1997–2006) | [93] |
| Charles W. Meister | Nu Nu (Honorary) | President of Eastern New Mexico University 1965–1975 | |
| William J. Micheels | Eta Kappa (Honorary) | President of University of Wisconsin–Stout (1961–1972). | [94] |
| Stephen G. Miller | Delta Omicron | Faculty at the University of California at Berkeley and archeologist who excavated the ancient site at Nemea, Greece | [95] |
| Ernest Carroll Moore | Chi Advisor | Provost and Vice President of University of California, Los Angeles (1919–1936) | [96] |
| Richard V. Moore | | President of Bethune-Cookman College (1947–1975) | [97] |
| Daniel Walter Morehouse | National Honorary | President of Drake University (1922–1941) | [41] |
| James Morrill | | President of University of Wyoming (1942–1945), president of University of Minnesota (1945–1960) | [98] |
| Donald C. Moyer | Nu Nu (Honorary) | President of Eastern New Mexico University (1960–1965) and first president of University of Nevada, Las Vegas (1965–1968) | [99] |
| Grover E. Murray | (Honorary) | President of Texas Tech University (1966–1976) | [100] |
| Harvey A. Neville | Alpha Psi (Honorary) | President of Lehigh University (1961–1964) | [101] |
| Walter Stephenson Newman | Zeta Beta (Honorary) | President of Virginia Tech (1947–1962) | [102] |
| Calvin Cleave Nolen | Alpha Rho | President of University of North Texas (1971-1979) | [103] |
| Arno Nowotny | Alpha Rho Advisor | Dean of Student Activities at the University of Texas at Austin (1946–1964) | [104] |
| A. Ray Olpin | Iota Psi (Honorary) | President of University of Utah (1946–1964) | [105] |
| John W. Oswald | Alpha Beta (Honorary) | President of Pennsylvania State University (1970–1982) | [106] |
| Albert G. Parker | Kappa Iota (Honorary) | President of Hanover College (1929–1958) | [107] |
| Norman A. Parker | Sigma Sigma (Honorary) | Chancellor of University of Illinois at Chicago Circle (1961–1971) | [108] |
| Davis Young Paschall | Nu Rho (Honorary) | president of the College of William & Mary (1960 to 1971) | [109] |
| Willard Stewart Paul | Iota Omicron (Honorary) | President of Gettysburg College and Commander of the 26th Infantry Division during World War II | [110] |
| Benjamin L Perry Jr. | Kappa Delta Advisor | President of Florida A&M (1968–1977) | [111][112] |
| Harry M. Philpott | Delta (Honorary) | President of Auburn University (1965–1979) | [1] |
| C. I. Pontius | | President of the University of Tulsa (1935–1959) | [113] |
| Bruce Poulton | Iota Lambda(?) | Chancellor of North Carolina State University (1982–1989) | [114] |
| Donald B. Prentice | Alpha | President of Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (1931–1948) | [84][115] |
| Phil Prince | Gamma Lambda | President of Clemson University (1994–1995) and senior vice president of American Express | [116] |
| Claudius Pritchard | Alpha Alpha Alpha (Honorary) | President of Maryville College (1977–1992) | [117] |
| Thomas Ramage | Alpha Zeta Omega (Honorary) | President of Parkland College (2007–present) | [118] |
| Harry Ransom | Alpha Rho | President of University of Texas at Austin, chancellor of the University of Texas System | [119] |
| Stanley Rives | Delta Psi (Honorary) | President of Eastern Illinois University | [120] |
| M. Richard Rose | Iota Upsilon | President of Rochester Institute of Technology (1979–1992); president of Alfred University (1974–1978) | [121] |
| Walter Harrington Ryle, III | Epsilon Advisor | President of Northeast Missouri State Teachers College (1937–1967) | [122] |
| Willam Schlaerth | Iota Zeta (Honorary) | President of Le Moyne College (1947–1954) | [123] |
| Walter Dill Scott | National Honorary | President of Northwestern University (1920–1939) | [124] |
| Mark F. Scully | Beta Psi (Honorary) | President of Southeast Missouri State University (1956–1975) | [125] |
| Charles A. Sevrinson | Alpha Lambda (Honorary) | Acting President of North Dakota State University (1946) | [42][126] |
| Robert H. Shaffer | Alpha Upsilon | pioneer in the field of college student personnel and student affairs; Indiana University Bloomington Dean of Students (1955–1969) | [78] |
| Kenneth "Buzz" Shaw | Phi (Honorary) | Chancellor of Syracuse University (1991–2004), president of the University of Wisconsin System (1985–1991), chancellor of Southern Illinois University (1979–1986), president of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (1977–1979) | [127] |
| Raymond L. Smith | | Sixth President of Michigan Tech University (1965–1979) | [128] |
| Albert J. Simone | Xi Zeta (Honorary) | President of Rochester Institute of Technology (1993–2006) | [129] |
| John Duncan Spaeth | Alpha Eta (Honorary) | President of University of Kansas City (1936–1938) | [130] |
| Graham Spanier | Alpha Beta (Honorary) | Former president of Pennsylvania State University | [131] |
| John Nissley Stauffer | Zeta Rho (Honorary) | President of Wittenberg University (1963–1968) | [132] |
| Wallace Sterling | Zeta (Honorary) | President of Stanford University | [133] |
| Elmo Stevenson | Zeta Xi | President of Southern Oregon University (1946–1969) | [134][135] |
| Axel D. Steuer | Zeta Epsilon Advisor and Eta Sigma Advisor | President of Gustavus Adolphus College (1991–2002), president of Illinois College (2003— (2008)) | [136] |
| Samuel Stevens | Kappa Nu (Honorary) | President of Grinnell College (1940-1954) | [137] |
| J. Lem Stokes II | Omicron Omicron (Honorary) | President of Pfeiffer University (1953–1968) | [75] |
| Ernest Stone | Omega Chi (Honorary) | President of Jacksonville State University (1971–1981) | [138] |
| Harry P. Storke | Omicron Iota (Honorary) | President of Worcester Polytechnic Institute (1962–1969) | [87] |
| Robert L. Sumwalt | Iota Mu (Honorary) | President of University of South Carolina (1959–1962) | [139] |
| Robert Swanson | Omicron Tau (Honorary) | President of Alma College (1956–1980) | [20] |
| H. Patrick Swygert | Zeta Phi | President of Howard University (1995–2007), president of State University of New York at Albany (1990–1995) | [140] |
| William Tate | Beta Zeta (Honorary) | Dean of Men of the University of Georgia (1946–1971) | [42] |
| Willis M. Tate | Alpha Omicron (Honorary) | President of Southern Methodist University (1954–1972, 1974–1976) | [42] |
| Harvey L. Taylor | Eta Omicron (Honorary) | Vice President of Brigham Young University, Administrator of all Latter Day Saint seminaries | [141] |
| Donald Richard Theophilus | Gamma Nu (Honorary) | President of the University of Idaho (1954–1965) | [142] |
| Ralph Tirey | Beta Lambda Advisor | President of Indiana State University (1933–1953) | [30] |
| Maurice E. Van Ackeren | Gamma Xi Advisor(?) | President of Rockhurst University (1951–1977) | [57] |
| William G. Van Note | Omicron Theta (Honorary) | President of Monmouth University (1962–1971) | [143] |
| Rufus B. von KleinSmid | Alpha Beta (Honorary) | President of the University of Arizona (1914–1921) and president of the University of Southern California (1921–1947). | [144] |
| Eric A. Walker | Alpha Beta (Honorary) | President of Pennsylvania State University (1956–1970) | [145] |
| Charles O. Warren | Alpha Beta Chi (Honorary) | President of State University of New York at Plattsburgh (1986–1994) | [146] |
| Ernest Wallace | | historian of Texas, the American West and the southern Great Plains, who was affiliated with Texas Tech University | [147] |
| Charles Warren | (Honorary) | President of SUNY-Plattsburgh and Lynchburg College | [148] |
| David Weaver | Epsilon Pi (Honorary) | President of Shurtleff College | [149] |
| Harold Weaver | Rho Nu (Honorary) | President of Sierra College | [150] |
| John Philip Wernette | Delta Tau (Honorary) | President of the University of New Mexico (1945–1948) | [151] |
| Ross S. Whaley | Phi (Honorary) | President of State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (1984–2000) | [127] |
| Martin D. Whitaker | Alpha Psi (Honorary), Alpha Beta | President of Lehigh University (1946–1960) | [42] |
| Goodrich C. White | Delta Kappa Advisor | President of Emory University (1942–1957); chancellor of Emory University (1957–1979) | [152][153] |
| Robert I. White | Epsilon Psi (Honorary) | President of Kent State University (1963–1971) | [154] |
| Thomas Y. Whitley | Chi Theta (Honorary) | First president of Columbus State University (1958–1979) | [155] |
| Charles E. Wicks | | Oregon State University professor of chemical engineering | [156] |
| Norman Adrian Wiggins | Nu Kappa (Honorary) | Third President of Campbell University | [157] |
| O. Meredith Wilson | Gamma Psi (Honorary) | President of University of Minnesota | [158] |
| Lawrence S. Wittner | Columbia University | American historian who has written extensively on peace movements and foreign policy | [159] |
| Frank Wickhorst | Gamma Gamma | University of California, Berkeley Football Coach (1946) | [158] |
| Victor R. Yanitelli | Xi Xi and Omicron Sigma (Honorary) | President of Saint Peter's College, New Jersey (1965–1978) | [160] |
| Hugh Edwin Young | Sigma Xi (Honorary) | President of University of Maine (1965–1968) | [69] |
| Lloyd P. Young | Eta Delta (Honorary) | President of Keene State College (1939–1964) | [161] |