| Horace Webster | |
| Order: | 1st |
| Office: | President of City College of New York |
| Term Start: | 1847 |
| Term End: | 1869 |
| Successor: | Alexander S. Webb |
| Birth Date: | September 21, 1794 |
| Birth Place: | Hartford, Connecticut |
| Death Place: | Geneva, New York |
Horace Webster (Hartford, Connecticut, September 21, 1794 - Geneva, New York, July 12, 1871) was an American educator who graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1818. Webster remained at West Point as a mathematics professor until 1825, leaving with the rank of first lieutenant. He then moved to Geneva College, where he taught as a professor of mathematics and natural philosophy until he left in 1848 to head the Free Academy of New York, where he continued until retirement in 1869.[1] The school was renamed City College in 1866. Horace Webster served as its first president.