List of Mayors and Lord Mayors of Sydney
This is a list of the Mayors and Lord Mayors of the City of Sydney Local Government Area, Sydney, Australia.
Mayors
- 1842 Charles Windeyer
- 1842-1843 John Hosking
- 1843-1844 James Robert Wilshire
- 1845 George Allen
- 1846 Henry McDermott
- 1847 Thomas Broughton
- 1848 Joshua Frey Josephson
- 1849 Alderman Edward Flood
- 1850 George Hill
- 1851-1852 William Edward Thurlow
- 1853 Daniel Egan
- 1854-1856 none, as appointed commissioners ran the council
- 1857 George Thornton
- 1858 John Williams
- 1859 George Smith
- 1860 James Murphy
- 1861 John Sutherland
- 1862 James Oatley
- 1863 Thomas Spence
- 1864 William Speer
- 1865 John Woods
- 1866 John Sutton
- 1867-1869 Charles Moore
- 1869-1870 Walter Renny
- 1871-1872 Michael Chapman
- 1873 James Merriman
- 1874-1878 unknown
- 1879 Charles James Roberts
- 1880 Robert Fowler
- 1881-1883 John Harris
- 1884 John Hardie
- 1885 Thomas Playfair
- 1886 John Young
- 1887 Alban Joseph Riley
- 1888-1889 John Harris
- 1890-1891 Sydney Burdekin
- 1891-1894 Sir William Patrick Manning
- 1895 Samuel Edward Lees
- 1896-1897 Isaac Ellis Ives
- 1898-1900 Sir Matthew Harris
- 1901 Sir James Graham
- 1902 Sir Thomas Hughes
Lord Mayors
- 1902-1903 Sir Thomas Hughes
- 1904 Samuel Edward Lees
- 1905-1906 Allen Arthur Taylor
- 1907-1908 Sir Thomas Hughes
- 1909-1912 Allen Arthur Taylor
- 1912 George Thomas Clarke
- 1913 Sir Arthur Alfred Clement Cocks
- 1914-1915 Richard Watkins Richards
- 1916-1917 Richard Denis Meagher
- 1918 James Joynton Smith
- 1919 John English
- 1919-1920 Sir Richard Watkins Richards
- 1920 William Patrick Fitzgerald
- 1921 William Henry Lambert
- 1922 William Percy McElhone
- 1923-1924 David Gilpin
- 1925-1926 Patrick Vincent Stokes
- 1927 John Harold Mostyn
- 1928-1930 none, as appointed commissioners ran the council
- 1930 E.S. Marks
- 1931 Joseph Jackson
- 1932 Samuel Walder
- 1933 R.C. Hagon
- 1934-1935 Sir Alfred L. Parker
- 1935 Arthur McElhone
- 1936-1937 Archibald Howie
- 1938-1939 Sir Norman L. Nock
- 1940-1942 Stanley S. Crick
- 1943-1944 R.J. Bartley
- 1945 W. Neville Harding
- 1946-1948 R.J. Bartley
- 1949-1952 E.C. O'Dea
- 1953-1956 Patrick Darcy Hills
- 1957-1965 Henry Frederick Jensen
- 1966-1967 John Armstrong
- 1967-1969 none, as appointed commissioners ran the council
- 1969-1972 Sir Laurence Emmet McDermott
- 1972-1973 David Griffin
- 1973-1975 Nicholas Shehadie
- 1975-1978 Leo Port
- 1978-1980 Nelson Meers
- 1980-1987 Douglas William Sutherland
- 1987-1988 none, as appointed commissioners ran the council
- 1989-1991 Jeremy Bingham
- 1991-2003 Frank Sartor
- 2003-2004 Lucy Turnbull
- 2004-present Clover Moore