List of educators and librarians of Upstate New York

*John R. Cavanaugh, Roman Catholic Priest and educator born in Rochester. Founded the Irish literature program and established an endowed Chair of Catholic Studies at St. John Fisher College, where he taught for over 50 years and a life-size bronze statue stands in his honor. Served on the board of trustees for Fisher College and Aquinas Institute. Co-founded the Rochester chapter of the Irish-American Culture Institute, served as grand marshal in Rochester's St. Patrick's Day parade, named Distinguished Irish American of the Millennium Year at the Rochester Irish Festival.
*Martha Foote Crow, born in Sackets Harbor, was an educator and writer who played an important role in the development of higher education for women in the United States.
*Melvil Dewey, born in Adams Center. Inventor of the Dewey Decimal System, founder of the New York State Library School, director of the New York State Library, secretary of the University of the State of New York. He is buried in North Elba.
*Richard Hofstadter, born in Buffalo, was a public intellectual of the 1950s, a historian and DeWitt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia University.
*George Washington Gale, founder in 1827 of the Oneida Institute of Whitesboro, New York, an institution where students would pay for their education by doing manual labor, and in 1837 of Knox College (initially called the Knox Manual Labor College) in what would become Galesburg, Illinois.
*Beriah Green, succeeded Gale as head of the Oneida Institute
*Eliza Kellas, an educator most known as former principal of Emma Willard School and co-founder of Russell Sage College.
*Camille Paglia
*Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage (1828-1918), born in Syracuse, was an American philanthropist known for her contributions to education and progressive causes. As a young woman she supported herself by teaching for 20 years in Syracuse, and in Philadelphia. Later in life as a philanthropist, Sage strongly supported education, both with program and building grants to Syracuse University and other universities. She established the Russell Sage Foundation in 1907 and founded Russell Sage College in 1916, as well as endowing programs for women.
*Rush Rhees, born in Rochester, New York, Rhees was an adept philosopher and became the literary executor of the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein.
*Frances Shimer
*Andrew Dickson White, co-founder of Cornell University
*Emma Willard, founder of the Troy Female Seminary, later renamed the Emma Willard School

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