List of Mayors and Lord Mayors of Brisbane

Lord Mayor of Brisbane
Original Crest of the City of Brisbane
Incumbent Graham Quirk since 7 April 2011
Style	The Right Honourable
Member of	Liberal National Party
Term length	4 Years
Inaugural holder	William Jolly
Formation	1 October 1925
Website	[2]

This is a list of the Mayors and Lord Mayors of the City of Brisbane, a local government area of Queensland, Australia. The current Lord Mayor of Brisbane is Graham Quirk.

The Municipality of Brisbane was gazetted on 25 May 1859 and proclaimed by the Governor of New South Wales on 7 September 1859. The first local government area in Queensland, Brisbane was the only one incorporated prior to the establishment of Queensland as a separate colony.

On 31 March 1903 the Local Authorities Act 1902 came into effect, and Part 2, Section 10 of the Act proclaimed Brisbane a city. The city's boundaries at this point only covered Brisbane's centre and the immediate surrounding suburbs.

On 1 October 1925 the City of Brisbane Act 1924 established a new City of Brisbane and its governing council, the Brisbane City Council. The new boundaries included 18 former local-government areas and parts of two others; it covered what was at that time the extent of Brisbane's metropolitan area.

The list of mayors of the Brisbane Municipal Council (1859–1903) appears below.

The Brisbane Municipal Council generally followed the practice of rotating the role of mayor among the aldermen, thus many mayors served for only one year and some served multiple times some years apart. The council "year" commenced and ended in about February to avoid a change-over during the summer holidays, so the mayor for 1890 would, strictly speaking, be the mayor into early 1891.

Most of the early aldermen and mayors of the Municipality of Brisbane were prominent local men rather than representatives of political parties.

Brisbane became a city on 31 March 1903. The list of mayors of the Brisbane City Council (1903–1925) appears below.

On 1 October 1925, the City of Brisbane Act 1924 came into force, and 18 local government areas (including the Municipality of Brisbane) and parts of two others were amalgamated to form the City of Brisbane, governed by the Brisbane City Council.