Mayor of Ipswich – 2000 onwards
- 2024-2025: Elango Elavalakan
- 2023-2024: Lynne Mortimer
- 2022-2023: John Cook
- 2021-2022: Elizabeth Hughes
- 2019-2021: Jan Parry
- 2018-2019: Jane Riley
- 2017-2018: Sarah Barber
- 2016-2017: Roger Fern
- 2015-2016: Glen Chisholm
- 2014-2015: Bill Quinton
- 2013-2014: Hamil Clarke
- 2012-2013: Mary Blake
- 2011-2012: John Le Grys
- 2010-2011: Jane Chambers
- 2009-2010: David Goldsmith
- 2008-2009: David Hale
- 2007-2008: Inga Elisabeth Lockington
- 2006-2007: Henry George Davies
- 2005-2006: William George Wright
- 2004-2005: Roger Edwin Fern
- 2003-2004: Penelope Kathryn Breakwell
- 2002-2003: Richard Risebrow
- 2001-2002: Maureen Carrington-Brown
- 2000-2001: Don Edwards
Mayor of Ipswich – 1950-2000
- 1999-2000: John Charles Mowles
- 1998-1999: George Hamilton Clarke MBE
- 1997-1998: Mrs Jeannette E Macartney
- 1996-1997: Philip H L Smart
- 1995-1996: Albert W Grant
- 1994-1995: Ian Roderick Grimwood
- 1993-1994: Mrs Margaret Alderton
- 1992-1993: Mrs Joan Cubbin
- 1991-1992: Kenneth Wilson
- 1990-1991: Jack West
- 1989-1990: Ms Sheila Baguley
- 1988-1989: William A Quinton
- 1987-1988: Derek Warsop
- 1986-1987: Mrs Gillian Auton
- 1985-1986: Eric Grant
- 1984-1985: Peter K Gardiner
- 1983-1984: Douglas Grimwood
- 1982-1983: Mrs Beryl James
- 1981-1982: Mrs Ann Smith
- 1980-1981: Sydney Mason
- 1979-1980: Eric Grant
- 1978-1979: Alan Seabrooke
- 1977-1978: David Myer
- 1976-1977: Hugh R Davis
- 1975-1976: Mrs Beryl James
- 1974-1975: Arthur J Lambert
- 1973-1974: Mrs Ruby Ann Skerritt
- 1972-1973: Walter Horace Mulley
- 1971-1972: Cyril George Skinner
- 1970-1971: Wallace Mortimer Morfey
- 1969-1970: Samuel William Teagar Godward
- 1968-1969: Owen Sturly Nunn / Mrs Marjorie J Nesby
- 1967-1968: Arthur J Lambert
- 1966-1967: Mrs Marjory Keeble
- 1965-1966: Victor Robert Redvers Francis
- 1964-1965: Edward Charles Grimwade
- 1963-1964: John McClennan Stewart
- 1962-1963: Arthur Vernon Bishop
- 1961-1962: Mrs Charlotte Green
- 1960-1961: Percy John Fowler
- 1959-1960: Richard James Lewis
- 1958-1959: George William Pipe
- 1957-1958: Robert Ratcliffe
- 1956-1957: Phineas Weiner Lewis
- 1955-1956: Christopher Gorden Rushen
- 1954-1955: Clifford Gerald Roper
- 1953-1954: Mrs Lesley Lewis
- 1952-1953: James Chalmers
- 1951-1952: Albert John Colthorpe
- 1950-1951: Cyril Catchpole
Mayor of Ipswich – 1900-1950
- 1949-1950: Arthur James Cook
- 1947-1949: James Barry Cullingham
- 1946-1947: Mrs Mary Whitmore
- 1945-1946: Frederick Henry Warner
- 1944-1945: Sidney Charles Grimwade
- 1943-1944: Charles West English
- 1942-1943 (Dec-Nov): Owen Dudley Phillips
- 1942 (Nov-Dec): Frank John Mason
- 1940-1941: Robert Frederick Jackson
- 1938-1939: Edward Lawrence Hunt
- 1937-1938: George Underwood
- 1936-1937: Albert Victor Smith
- 1935-1936: Hubert Ernest Holland
- 1934-1935: George Ambrose Mallett
- 1933-1934: Robert Frederick Jackson
- 1931-1933: George William Senton
- 1930-1931: Sidney Charles Grimwade
- 1929-1930: Arthur Lewis Clouting
- 1928-1929: James Francis Clark Hossack
- 1927-1928: William Rowley Elliston
- 1926-1927: Charles Ernest Tempest
- 1925-1926: Kavas Jamas Badshah
- 1924-1925: Frederick William Turner
- 1923-1924: John Richard Staddon
- 1922-1923: Alfred Sizer
- 1921-1922: William Pipe
- 1920-1921: Frank John Mason
- 1919-1920: Frederick Edward Rands
- 1918-1919: Edward Colby Ransome
- 1917-1918: Henry Dixon Phillips
- 1916-1917: Valentine Desborough Colchester
- 1915-1916: Sydney Brand
- 1914-1915: John Dupois Cobbold
- 1913-1914: William Pipe
- 1912-1913: Edward Colby Ransome
- 1911-1912: Frederick Edward Rands
- 1910-1911: Philip Wyndham Cobbold
- 1909-1910: Alexander Gibb
- 1908-1909: Francis Charles Ward
- 1907-1908: Harry W Raffe
- 1906-1907: William Orford White
- 1905-1906: Bunnell H Burton
- 1904-1905: John Henry Grimwade
- 1903-1904: Frederick Bennett
- 1902-1903: William John Catchpole
- 1901-1902: Arthur Charles Churchman
- 1900-1901: William Fraser Paul
Mayor of Ipswich – 1850-1900
- 1899-1900: William Alfred Churchman
- 1898-1899: Edwin Perkins Ridley
- 1897-1898: Robert Stocker Paul
- 1896-1897: Felix Thornley Cobbold
- 1895-1896: George Francis Josselyn
- 1894-1895: John Henry Bartlet
- 1893-1894: Samuel Richard Anness
- 1892-1893: Roderick Donald Fraser
- 1891-1892: Sir Daniel Ford Goddard
- 1890-1891: Frederick Turner
- 1889-1890: Nathaniel Catchpole
- 1888-1889: John Henry Josselyn
- 1887-1888: Robert Maplestone Miller
- 1886-1887: Edward Packard Jnr
- 1885-1886: Benjamin Page Grimsey
- 1884-1885: Sterling Westhorp
- 1883: John May Jnr
- 1882-1883: Edward Rush Turner
- 1881-1882: Frederick Fish
- 1880-1881: Alfred Wrinch
- 1879-1880: David Henry Booth
- 1878-1879: Alexander Francis Nicholson
- 1877-1878: Charles Henry Cowell
- 1876-1877: Walter Turner
- 1875-1876: George Calver Mason
- 1873-1875: Dr Barrington Chevallier
- 1872-1873: Ebenezer Goddard
- 1870-1872: George Green Sampson
- 1869-1870: Edward Grimwade
- 1868-1869: Edward Packard Snr
- 1867-1868: John Patteson Cobbold
- 1866-1867: Robert Charles Ransome
- 1865-1866: Ebenezer Goddard
- 1864-1865: Samuel Harrison Cowell
- 1862-1863: George Bacon
- 1860-1861: Edward Grimwade
- 1859-1860: George Josselyn
- 1858-1859: Jeremiah Head
- 1857-1858: Ebenezer Goddard
- 1855-1857: George Christopherson
- 1854-1855: Peter Bartholomew Long
- 1853-1854: Charles Foote Gower
- 1852-1853: Samuel Harrison Cowell
- 1851-1852: George Josselyn
- 1850-1851: Peter Bartholomew Long
Mayor of Ipswich – 1836-1850
- 1849-1850: Thomas Baldock Ross
- 1848-1849: Charles Burton
- 1847-1848: John May Snr
- 1846-1847: George Green Sampson
- 1845-1846: Thomas d'Eye Burroughes
- 1844-1845: William Rodwell
- 1843-1844: William May
- 1842-1843: George Josselyn
- 1841-1842: John Chevallier Cobbold
- 1840-1841: Peter Bartholomew Long
- 1839-1840: John May Snr
- 1838-1839: George Green Sampson
- 1837-1838: Peter Bartholomew Long
- 1836-1837: Frederick Francis Seekamp
- 1836: Benjamin Brame