As the flagship Seminary of the Southern Baptist Convention, Southern has long supplied the Convention with able leaders. Listed below are SBC Presidents associated with Southern either as students or professors.
- James P. Boyce
- 1872
- 1873
- 1874
- 1875
- 1876
- 1877
- 1878
- 1879
- 1888
- Edwin C. Dargan
- 1911
- 1912
- 1913
- E.Y. Mullins
- 1921
- 1922
- 1923
- George W. McDaniel
- 1924
- 1925
- 1926
- W.J. McGlothlin
- 1930
- 1931
- 1932
- Fred Brown
- 1933
- John R. Sampey
- 1936
- 1937
- 1938
- W.W. Hamilton
- 1941
- 1942
- C.C. Warren
- 1956
- 1957
- Herschel Hobbs
- 1962
- 1963
- K. Owen White
- 1964
- Wayne Dehoney
- 1965
- 1966
- Franklin Pascal
- 1967
- 1968
- W.A. Criswell
- 1969
- 1970
- James Merritt
- 2001
- 2002
--From The Tie, Fall 2002
