List of mayors of Yangon

This is a list of mayors of Yangon, Myanmar.

Imperial period

• Ne Myo Nawrahta, 1757–?^[1]
• Raghbir Singh Dugal, ?–?^[1]

Colonial period

The office of the mayor and the municipal government of Rangoon were established by the British colonial government in 1874 per the Act of 1874, Article 7. The charter of the municipal government was changed per the Burma Act of 1898, and again updated per the City of Rangoon Municipal Act of August 1922.^[2]

• Pa Thein
• David Sophaer
• Charles Haswell Campagnac
• Richard Rushall, 1930–19??
• Ba Win, 1939–19??^[3]

Since independence

• Tin Pe, 1985–1986^[4]
• Aung Khin, 1986–1988
• Ko Lay, 1988–2003
• Aung Thein Lin, 2003–2011
• Hla Myint, 2011–2016
• Maung Maung Soe, 2016

References

1. Letwe Nawrahta and Twinthin Taikwun (c. 1770). Hla Thamein, ed. Alaungpaya Ayedawbon (in Burmese) (1961 ed.). Ministry of Culture, Union of Burma. p. 222.
2. Myanma Swezon Kyan Vol. 11 1970: 271
3. "Rotary Returns to Rangoon". The Rotarian (Rotary International) 69 (3): 23. Sep 1946. ISSN 0035-838X.
4. "History of Yangon". yangoncity.com. Retrieved 2011-04-07.