Ottoman period

• Suleyman Sudi Bey (1869)
• Anchiach Effendi (1870)
• Ahmed Rauf (1871-1874)
• Mehmet Pasha (1874)
• Faik Bey (1875)
• Mehmet Tefik (1876)
• Akif Bey (1877)
• Arif Bey (1878-1880)
• Shukri Bey (1880-1882)
• Ali Orfi Effendi (1882)
• Ali Effendi Musa Zade (1882-1884)
• Ali Effendi (1884)
• Arif Bey (1885)
• Ibrahim Bey (1886-1889)
• Ibrahim Namik Bey (1889-1893)
• Ahmed Hamdi Bey [el] (1893-1895)
• Reis Bekili Kerim Bey (1895-1897)
• Reis Bekili Hasan Husni Effendi (1897-1901)
• Ahmed Hamdi Bey (1901-1907)
• Tevfik Bey (1907)
• Ahmed Hamdi Bey (1907-1908)
• Osman Adil Bey (1908)
• Hulusi Bey (1908)
• Osman Said Ibn Haki Bey (1908-1909)
• Ismail Effendi (1909-1910)
• Tevfik Bey (1910-1912)

Modern period

• Osman Said Bey [el] (1912-1916)
• Konstantinos Aggelakis (18 August 1916 – 15 November 1920)
• Osman Said Bey (15 November 1920 – 22 September 1922)
• Athanasios Kallidopoulos (22 Σεπτεμβρίου 1922-8 Δεκεμβρίου 1922)
• Petros Syndikas [el] (1922 – 1926)
• Georgios Zaroukas (20 June 1926 – 28 February 1926)
• Minas Patrikios (1926-1929) with pauses due to dictatorial persecutions - dismissed by the dictatorial regime of Theodoros Pangalos
• Nikolaos Manos [bg] (August 1929-19 October 1930)
• Charisios Vamvakas (1931-1933)
• Nikolaos Manos [bg] (1934-1 April 1936)
• Konstantinos Merkouriou [el] (1 April 1937 – 22 February 1943) appointed by the dictatorial regime 1937-41 and then by the Nazi authorities 1941-43.
• George Seremetis (23 February 1943 – 28 October 1944) appointed by the Nazi authorities.
• Dimitrios Kavvadas [el] (November 1944-January 1945)
• Petros Levis (28 February 1945 – 29 May 1946)
• Christos Konstantinou (29 May 1946 – 23 August 1950)
• Ioannis Manesis (23 August 1950 – 7 June 1951)
• Aristi Pagiataki (June 1, 1951-7 June 1951), The first elected Mayor in the 1951 elections - she was dismissed and became a simple municipal councilor after a legal appeal of Petrakakis (who was elected 2nd) due to a vague law for women mayors.
• Pantelis Petrakakis (1951-1955), Second in votes in the 1951 elections - he was sworn in after Pagiataki's dismissal following his own legal appeal.
• Minas Patrikios (1956-1959)
• Ioannis Papailiakis [el] (1959-1964)
• Konstantinos Tsiros (1964-1967)
• Vyron Antoniadis (5 August 1967 – 12 April 1968) appointed by dictatorial regime
• Alexandros Konstantinidis (12 April 1968 – 8 February 1970) appointed by dictatorial regime
• Christos Floridis (8 February 1970 – 30 August 1974) appointed by dictatorial regime
• Dimitrios Zannas [el] (caretaker) (30 August 1974 – 24 September 1974)
• Stergios Vallas (judge, caretaker) (24 September 1974 – 1 June 1975)
• Michalis Papadopoulos (PASOK) (1 June 1975-January 1982)
• Kostis Moskof (caretaker) (6 February 1982 – 17 February 1982)
• Athanasios Giannousis (KKE) (17 February 1982 – 31 December 1982)
• Theocharis Manavis (PASOK) (1 January 1983 – 31 December 1986)
• Sotiris Kouvelas (ND) (1 January 1987 – 18 June 1989) He resigned
• Konstantinos Kosmopoulos (ND) (18 June 1989 – 19 March 1998) He resigned
• Dimitris Dimitriadis (19 March 1998 – 31 December 1998)
• Vasilios Papageorgopoulos (ND) (1 January 1999 – 31 December 2010)
• Yiannis Boutaris (PASOK) (1 January 2011 – 31 August 2019)
• Konstantinos Zervas (ND) (1 September 2019 – 31 December 2023)
• Stelios Angeloudis (PASOK) (1 January 2024 – Incumbent)

• "Liste of Turkish mayors of Thessaloniki" (PDF) (in Turkish). Retrieved 23 May 2014.