List of mayors of Manly

This is a list of mayors of the Manly Council local government area in the Northern Beaches region of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. First incorporated on 6 January 1877 as the Municipality of Manly, and still established in that name today, its council became known as Manly Council on 1 July 1993 following the enactment of a new Local Government Act.

Mayors

Mayor	Term
Colonel Thomas Rowe	1877–1878
Alfred Hilder	1879–1880
George W. Barker	1881–1882
John J. Lough	1882
Charles H. Hayes	1882–1884
Charles R. Austin	1885–1886
Nicholas Weekes	1887
John G. Griffin	1888
John Cameron	1889–1891
Walter H. German	1892–1893
Harry E. Farmer	1894–1896
Frederick C. Passau	1897–1898
William H. Fletcher	1899–1900
Ellison Wentworth Quirk	1901–1906
Alexander Learmonth	1907
James Bonner	1908–1909
James Bonner	1910–1914
Arthur T. Keirle	1914–1917
Adam Ogilvy	1917
Francis W. Heaton	1918
Alfred Reid	1919–1921
Francis W. Heaton	1922
Arthur T. Keirle	1923
Alfred Charles Samuels	1924–1925
Arthur T. Keirle	1926–1928
Vincent J. Brady	1929
Charles W. Gourlay	1930
Arthur Harcourt	1931
Josiah R. Trenerry	1932
John H. Cross	1933
Alfred Seller	1934
John H. Cross	1935
Percy Nolan	1936–1938
Aubrey Hanson–Norman	1939–1941
Robert A. Miller	1942
Aubrey Hanson–Norman	1943
Charles Wearne Breakspear	1944
James Anderson	1945–1946
Robert A. Miller	1947
C. R. Scharkie	1948–1950
James Anderson	1951
James H. Brown	1952–1953
Aubrey Hanson–Norman	1954
Merv Paine	1955–1958
W. Fairbairn	1959–1960
Jim W. Paton	1961–1963
William R. Nicholas	1964–1965
Adam Dein	1966
David Hay	1967
William Iles	1968–1970
David Hay	1971–1973
William A. Manning	1974–1975
William R. Murray	1976–1977
Frank S. Preacher	1978
Joan A. Thorburn	1979–1982
David Hay	1983–1984
Judith A. Mellowes	1984–1986
Greg Smith	1987
Joan L. Cooke	1988–1989
Michael P. Heraghty	1990
Greg Smith	1991
Michael P. Heraghty	1992
Geoffrey Smith	1993–1994
Brian Hamer	1995
Sue Sacker	1996–1999
Jean Hay	2000–2003
Dr. Peter Macdonald	2004–2008
Jean Hay	2008–present