| Start Date | Name | Birth-Death |
| 1884 | James Gaston Barnwell | 1833-1919 |
| 1887 | Gregory Bernard Keen | 1844-1930 |
| 1897 | Morris Jastrow | 1861-1921 |
| 1919 | Asa Don Dickinson | 1876- |
| 1931 | Charles Seymour Thompson | 1879- |
| 1945 | Charles Wendell David | |
| 1955 | Kenneth M. Setton | . |
| 1966 | Warren J. Haas | . |
| 1970 | Richard DeGennaro | . |
| 1988 | Paul Mosher (Vice Provost-Univ. Libraries) | 1936- |