List of mayors of Warsaw

The Mayor of Warsaw, or more literally the President of Warsaw (the customary title in Polish is "Prezydent Miasta Stołecznego Warszawy") is the head of the capital of Poland.

Following the Warsaw Act (Ustawa warszawska) of 27 October 2002, the Mayor of Warsaw carries over most of the executive duties in the city. His or her prerogative is, among others, governing the city-owned property that still constitutes a major part of the city.

Before 1792

• Alexander Chalmers (1702–1703)
• Józef Benedykt Loupia (1724–1727)
• Henryk Makin (1728)
• Józef Benedykt Loupia (1734)
• Mateusz Kostrzewski (1743)
• Paweł Andrychowicz (1750–1751)
• Paweł Andrychowicz (1753)
• Jan Feliks Dulfus (1754–1756)
• Michał Sakres (1761)
• Jan Feliks Dulfus (1764)
• Michał Sakres (1765–1766)
• Jan Feliks Dulfus (1767)
• Michał Sakres (1768)
• Franciszek Witthoff (1769–1771)
• Grzegorz Łyszkiewicz (1772)
• Wojciech Lobert (1773–1776)
• Jakub Maraszewski (1777)
• Franciszek Witthoff (1778–1779)
• Grzegorz Łyszkiewicz (1780–1780)
• Wojciech Lobert (1781–1788)
• Jan Dekert (23 February 1789 – 4 October 1790)
• Józef Michał Łukasiewicz (1791 – 13 April 1792)

1792–1795

• Ignacy Zakrzewski-Wyssogota (16 April 1792 – 25 August 1792)
• Józef Michał Łukasiewicz (30 August 1792 – 20 March 1793)
• Andrzej Rafałowicz (21 March 1793 – 17 April 1794)
• Ignacy Zakrzewski-Wyssogota (17 April 1794 – 3 November 1794).
• Józef Michał Łukasiewicz (20 November 1794 – 25 July 1796).

Prussian occupation (1795–1806)

• Franz Schimmelpfennig von der Ove (25 July 1796 – 23 April 1799)
• Friedrich Georg Tilly (23 April 1799 – 27 November 1806)

Duchy of Warsaw (1807–1815)

• Joachim Moszyński (December 1806 – 21 February 1807)
• Paweł Bieliński (17 April 1807 – 4 July 1807)
• Stanisław Węgrzecki (4 July 1807 – December 1815)

Congress Poland (1816–1915)

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Sokrates Starynkiewicz
19th President of Warsaw (1875–1892)

• Karol Woyda (6 January 1816 – 30 November 1830)
• Stanisław Węgrzecki (30 November 1830 – 26 June 1831)
• Jakub Ignacy Łaszczyński (17 June 1831 – 1837)
• Aleksander Graybner (1837 – 9 November 1847)
• Teodor Andrault de Langeron (10 November 1847 – February 1862)
• Kazimierz Woyda (luty 1862 – 15 August 1862)
• Zygmunt Wielopolski (16 August 1862 – 18 September 1863)
• Kalikst Witkowski (16 September 1863 – 1 October 1875)
• Sokrates Starynkiewicz (18 November 1875 – 6 October 1892)
• Nikolai Bibikov (6 October 1892 – 29 June 1906)
• Wiktor Litwiński (July 1906 – 26 April 1909)
• Aleksander Miller (4 September 1909 – 4 August 1915)

World War I and German occupation (1916/1917)

• Zdzisław Lubomirski (5 August 1916 – 6 October 1917)

Republic of Poland (1918–1939)

• Piotr Drzewiecki (28 November 1921 – 7 December 1922)
• Stanisław Nowodworski (7 December 1922 – 22 June 1927)
• Władysław Jabłoński 22 June – 7 July 1927
• Zygmunt Słomiński (7 July 1927 – 2 March 1934)
• Marian Kościałkowski-Zyndram (2 March – 28 June 1934)
• Stefan Starzyński (2 August 1934 – 27 October 1939)

General Government (1939–1944)

• Julian Kulski (28 October 1939 – 1 August 1944)
• Marceli Porowski (5 August 1944 – 2 October 1944)
• Helmut Otto Nazi Reich commissioned mayor (October 1939)
• Oskar Rudolf Dengel Nazi Reich commissioned mayor (5 November 1939 – 20 March 1940)
• Ludwig Leist nazi plenipontentiary of Governor of the Warsaw District, since October 1941, Mayor of Warsaw. It should be clarified that the last three mentioned were appointed by the Nazis during their occupation of Poland.

People's Republic of Poland (1945–1989)

Between 1950 and 1973 the highest representative of the government in Warsaw was named the "Head of the Presidium of the National Council of the Capital City of Warsaw" (Przewodniczący Prezydium Rady Narodowej miasta stołecznego Warszawy).

• Marian Spychalski (18 September 1944 – March 1945)
• Stanisław Tołwiński (5 March 1945 – 23 May 1950)
• Jerzy Albrecht (23 May 1950 – 14 May 1956)
• Janusz Zarzycki (14 May 1956 – 17 December 1956)
• Zygmunt Dworakowski (17 December 1956 – 5 May 1960)
• Janusz Zarzycki (5 May 1960 – 29 December 1967)
• Jerzy Majewski (29 December 1967 – 9 December 1973)
• Jerzy Majewski (13 December 1973 – 18 February 1982)
• Mieczysław Dębicki (18 February 1982 – 5 December 1986)
• Jerzy Bolesławski (5 December 1986 – 30 January 1990)

Republic of Poland (since 1990)

• Stanisław Wyganowski (27 January 1990 – 5 October 1994)
• Mieczysław Bareja (5 October 1994 – 3 November 1994)
• Marcin Swiecicki (3 November 1994 – 30 March 1999)
• Paweł Piskorski (30 March 1999 – 14 January 2002)
• Wojciech Kozak (14 January 2002 – 18 November 2002)
• Lech Kaczyński (18 November 2002 – 22 December 2005)
• Mirosław Kochalski (9 February 2006 – 18 July 2006)
• Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz (18 July 2006 – 2 December 2006)
• Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz (2 December 2006 – present)