Superintendents of the U.S. Naval Academy
Ranks in parentheses are promotions while serving.
Superintendent | Took Office | Year Graduated from Naval Academy |
| CDR Franklin Buchanan | 3 September 1845 | |
| CDR George P. Upshur | 15 March 1847 | |
| CDR Cornelius K. Stribling | 1 July 1850 | |
| CDR Louis M. Goldsborough | 1 November 1853 | |
| CAPT George S. Blake | 15 September 1857 | |
| RADM David D. Porter (VADM) | 9 September 1865 | |
| Commodore John L. Worden | 1 December 1869 | |
| RADM Christopher R.P. Rodgers | 22 September 1874 | |
| Commodore Foxhall A. Parker | 1 July 1878 | |
| RADM George B. Balch | 2 August 1879 | |
| RADM Christopher R.P. Rodgers | 13 June 1881 | |
| CAPT Francis M. Ramsay | 14 November 1881 | |
| CDR William T. Sampson (CAPT) | 9 September 1886 | |
| CAPT Robert L. Phythian (RADM) | 13 June 1890 1856 | |
| CAPT Philip H. Cooper | 15 November 1894 1864 | |
| RADM Frederick V. McNair | 15 July 1898 1857 | |
| CDR Richard Wainwright | 15 March 1900 1868 | |
| CAPT Williard H. Brownson (RADM) | 6 November 1902 | 1865 |
| RADM James H. Sands | 1 July 1905 | 1864 |
| CAPT Charles J. Badger | 15 July 1907 | 1873 |
| CAPT John M. Bowyer | 10 June 1909 | 1874 |
| CAPT John H. Gibbons | 15 May 1911 | 1879 |
| CAPTWilliam F. Fullam (RADM) | 7 February 1914 | 1877 |
| CAPT Edward W. Eberle (RADM) | 20 September 1915 | 1885 |
| CAPT Archibald H. Scales (RADM) | 12 February 1919 | 1887 |
| RADM Henry B. Wilson | 5 July 1921 | 1881 |
| RADM Louis M. Nulton | 23 February 1925 | 1889 |
| RADM Samuel S. Robison | 16 June 1928 | 1888 |
| RADM Thomas C. Hart | 1 May 1931 | 1897 |
| RADM David F. Sellers | 18 June 1934 | 1894 |
| RADM Wilson Brown | 1 February 1938 | 1902 |
| RADM Russell Willson | 1 February 1941 | 1906 |
| RADM John R. Beardall | 31 January 1942 | 1908 |
| VADM Aubrey W. Fitch | 16 August 1945 | 1906 |
| RADM James L. Holloway Jr. | 15 January 1947 | 1919 |
| VADM Harry W. Hill | 28 April 1950 | 1911 |
| VADM C. Turner Joy | 4 August 1952 | 1916 |
| RADM Walter F. Boone | 12 August 1954 | 1921 |
| RADM William R. Smedberg III | 16 March 1956 | 1926 |
| RADM Charles L. Melson | 27 June 1958 | 1927 |
| RADM John F. Davidson | 22 June 1960 | 1929 |
| RADM C.C. Kirkpatrick | 18 August 1962 | 1931 |
| RADM C.S. Minter Jr. | 11 January 1964 | 1937 |
| RADM Draper L. Kauffman | 12 June 1965 | 1933 |
| CAPT Lawrence Heyworth Jr. | 22 June 1968 | 1943 |
| RADM James F. Calvert (VADM) | 20 July 1968 | 1943 |
| VADM William P. Mack | 16 June 1972 | 1937 |
| RADM Kinnaird R. McKee (VADM) | 1 August 1975 | 1951 |
| RADM William P. Lawrence (VADM) | 28 August 1978 | 1951 |
| VADM Edward C. Waller | 22 August 1981 | 1949 |
| RADM Charles R. Larson | 31 August 1983 | 1958 |
| RADM Ronald F. Marryott | 19 August 1986 | 1957 |
| RADM Virgil L. Hill Jr. | 18 August 1988 | 1961 |
| RADM Thomas C. Lynch | 15 June 1991 | 1964 |
| ADM Charles R. Larson | 1 August 1994 | 1958 |
| VADM John R. Ryan | 4 June 1998 | 1967 |
| VADM Richard J. Naughton | 7 June 2002 | 1968 |
| VADM Charles W. Moore Jr. (acting) | 5 June 2003 | 1968 |
| VADM Rodney P. Rempt | 1 August 2003 | 1966 | |
| VADM Jeffrey L. Fowler | 8 June 2007 | 1978 | |
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