Preston Robert Tisch (April 29, 1926 – November 15, 2005) was an American businessman^[1] who was the chairman and—along with his brother Laurence Tisch—was part owner of the Loews Corporation. From 1991 until his death, Tisch owned 50% of the New York Giants football team and shared ownership of the team with Wellington Mara.

Tisch was born in 1926 in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, the son of Sadye and Al Tisch. Tisch received a BA degree in economics from the University of Michigan in 1948, and his wife Joan Tisch and his daughter also received degrees at the university. While in college Tisch was a member of Sigma Alpha Mu, a Jewish fraternity.^[2]

On August 16, 1986, he was appointed Postmaster General of the United States Postal Service, serving until March 1, 1988.

Tisch made substantial donations to his alma maters, leading to these institutions naming buildings and a school after him. Tisch Hall, on the University of Michigan central campus, houses that university's history department. New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and NYU Medical Center's Tisch Hospital are named after Laurence A. and Preston Robert Tisch. NYU's Preston Robert Tisch Center for Hospitality, Tourism, and Sports Management was founded in 1995 and expanded in 1999^[11] to meet the needs of a growing student population. In 1997, the Central Park Zoo opened the Tisch Children's Zoo.

Given two months to live by his New York doctors, Tisch lived for 14 more months under care at Duke University Medical Center. In recognition of their efforts, the Tisch family donated $10 million to the Duke Brain Tumor Center which was renamed the Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center in October 2005.

The Tisch Building in New York City, which is the headquarters of the Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC), is named for him and his wife, who is on the GMHC Board of Directors, after they donated $3.5 million for it in March 1997.^[12] There is additionally a Preston R. Tisch Professorship in Judaic Studies and the Preston Robert Tisch Tennis Building at the University of Michigan.^[13] Tisch was also a founding member of the Association for a Better New York, which took on the task of tackling city problems that had previously fallen to the city's agencies.^[14] He additionally helped to found Citymeals on Wheels and personally served meals to the city's elderly.^[15] There is a Tisch Center for the Arts at the 92Y in New York, and Tisch Galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Arts.^[16][17] Tisch founded the charity Take the Field, which raised $135 million in public and private funds to repair 43 athletic fields in New York City.^[18]

• 1982 – Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement^[19]
• 1995 – Frank W. Berkman Tourism Achievement Award^[20]
• 2000 – Hospitality Industry Hall of Honor, Conrad N. Hilton College, Hilton University of Houston^[21]
• 2010 – The Events Industry Council Hall of Leaders^[22]
• 2010 - New York Giants Ring of Honor

In 2007, the University at Albany, where the Giants held training camp for many years, named their practice field after Tisch and co-owner Wellington Mara.^[23]

In 1948, he married Joan Hyman. They had three children: Steve Tisch, Jonathan Tisch, and Laurie Tisch.^{[24][25][26][27][28]}