# List of mayors and lord mayors of Adelaide

This is a list of the mayors and lord mayors of the City of Adelaide, a local government area of South Australia.
The first local government in Australia was formed on 31 October 1840 with the election of nineteen councillors to the new Adelaide Corporation, followed by the councillors' election of a mayor. The first mayor was James Hurtle Fisher and the first council meeting was held on 4 November 1840.

## Mayors (1840–1919)

| | Mayor | Term |
| 1 | James Hurtle Fisher | 1840–1842 |
| 2 | Thomas Wilson | 1842–1843 |
| 3 | City managed as Government Department | 1843–1849 |
| 4 | City managed by Commissioners | 1849–1852 |
| 5 | James Hurtle Fisher | 1852 |
| 6 | James Hurtle Fisher | 1852–1854 |
| 7 | Joseph Hall | 1854–1855 |
| 8 | John Lazar | 1855–1858 |
| 9 | William Sabben | 1858–1859 |
| 10 | Edmund William Wright | 1859 |
| 11 | Edward Glandfield | 1859–1862 |
| 12 | Thomas English | 1862–1863 |
| 13 | Samuel Goode | 1863–1864 |
| 14 | William Townsend | 1864–1866 |
| 15 | Henry Robert Fuller | 1866–1869 |
| 16 | Judah Moss Solomon | 1869–1871 |
| 17 | Adolph Heinrich Friedrich Bartels | 1871–1873 |
| 18 | William Dixon Allott | 1873–1874 |
| 19 | John Colton | 1874–1875 |
| 20 | Caleb Peacock | 1875–1877 |
| 21 | Henry Scott | 1877–1878 |
| 22 | William Christie Buik | 1878–1879 |
| 23 | Edwin Thomas Smith | 1879–1882 |
| 24 | Henry Robert Fuller | 1882–1883 |
| 25 | William Bundey | 1883–1886 |
| 26 | Edwin Thomas Smith | 1886–1887 |
| 27 | Sir Edwin Thomas Smith | 1887–1888 |
| 28 | James Shaw | 1888–1889 |
| 29 | Lewis Cohen | 1889–1890 |
| 30 | Frederick William Bullock | 1891–1892 |
| 31 | Charles Willcox | 1892–1894 |
| 32 | Charles Tucker | 1894–1898 |
| 33 | Arthur Wellington Ware | 1898–1901 |
| 34 | Lewis Cohen | 1901–1904 |
| 35 | Theodore Bruce | 1904–1907 |
| 36 | Frank Johnson | 1907–1909 |
| 37 | Lewis Cohen | 1909–1911 |
| 38 | Sir John Lavington Bonython | 1911–1913 |
| 39 | Alfred Allen Simpson | 1913–1915 |
| 40 | Isaac Isaacs | 1915–1917 |
| 41 | Charles Richmond Glover | 1917–1919 |

## Lord mayors (since 1919)

The Official styled title of the Lord Mayor of Adelaide is The Right Honourable Lord Mayor of Adelaide.
The styled title The Right Honourable, (which has no connection with the privy council) attaches to the title of Lord Mayor, and not to their names, and is relinquished upon leaving office.
| | Lord Mayor | Term |
| 41 | Charles Richmond Glover | 1919 |
| 42 | Frank Beaumont Moulden | 1919–1921 |
| 43 | Lewis Cohen | 1921–1923 |
| 44 | Charles Richmond Glover | 1923–1925 |
| 45 | Wallace Bruce | 1925–1927 |
| 46 | Sir John Lavington Bonython | 1927–1930 |
| 47 | Charles Richmond Glover | 1930–1933 |
| 48 | Jonathan Robert Cain | 1933–1937 |
| 49 | Arthur Barrett | 1937–1941 |
| 50 | Arden Seymour Hawker | 1941–1943 |
| 51 | Reginald Walker | 1943–1946 |
| 52 | John McLeay | 1946–1949 |
| 53 | Arthur Ernest William Short | 1949 |
| 54 | John McLeay | 1949–1950 |
| 55 | Arthur Rymill | 1950–1953 |
| 56 | John Scott Philps | 1954–1957 |
| 57 | Lancelot Morton Spiller Hargrave | 1957–1960 |
| 58 | Charles John Glover, Sir John Glover | 1960–1963 |
| 59 | James Campbell Irwin | 1963–1966 |
| 60 | Walter Lewis Bridgland | 1966–1968 |
| 61 | Robert Evelyn Porter | 1968–1971 |
| 62 | William Hubert Hayes | 1971–1973 |
| 63 | Robert Wyndham Clampett | 1973–1975 |
| 64 | John Justin Roche | 1975–1977 |
| 65 | George Joseph | 1977–1979 |
| 66 | James Vincent Seaton Bowen | 1979–1981 |
| 67 | Arthur John Watson | 1981–1983 |
| 68 | Wendy Chapman | 1983–1985 |
| 69 | James Bickford Jarvis | 1985–1987 |
| 70 | Steve Condous | 1987–1995 |
| 71 | Henry Jacques Ninio | 1995–1997 |
| 72 | Jane Lomax-Smith | 1997–2000 |
| 73 | Alfred Huang | 2000–2002 |
| 74 | Michael Harbison | 2002–2010 |
| 75 | Stephen Yarwood | 2010–2014 |
| 76 | Martin Haese | 2014–2018 |
| 77 | Sandy Verschoor | 2018–2022 |
| 78 | Jane Lomax-Smith | 2022–present |