Hannah Holborn Gray (born 1930) was an education administrator who served as the first woman provost at Yale and as the first woman president of the University of Chicago. She thus became the first woman to serve as the chief executive of a major coeducational university.

Hannah Holborn Gray was born on October 25, 1930, in Heidelberg, Germany, the second child and only daughter of an academic couple, Hajo Holborn, a renowned professor of history, and Annemarie Bettman, who held a Ph.D. in classical philology. When the Hitler regime dismissed the liberal-thinking Hajo Holborn from his post at the Institute of Politics in Berlin, he emigrated with his family to New Haven, Connecticut, joining the History Department at Yale University where he remained for 35 years. Hannah Holborn grew up within Yale's ivy-covered walls. It was at Yale, too, that she later achieved national prominence when she became its first woman...