Past Grand Marshals
| 1956 | Martin Fay | 1991 | Lawrence J. McCrudden |
| 1957 | Myles Scully | 1992 | Guss Hayes |
| 1958 | Charles Shannon | 1993 | John A. Brennan |
| 1959 | Mike Curran | 1994 | Margaret Pike |
| 1960 | William Condon | 1995 | James G. McGinty |
| 1961 | Frank Morgan | 1996 | James J. Landy |
| 1962 | Msgr. James T. Ryan | 1997 | Msgr. Hugh Corrigan |
| 1963 | John Tobin | 1998 | William E. Griffin |
| 1964 | William Curtin | 1999 | James E. Flynn |
| 1965 | Terence Toal | 2000 | John P. Cahill |
| 1966 | Malcolm Wilson | 2001 | Michael J. McGrail |
| 1967 | Patrick Grimes, Sr. | 2002 | Dr. Catherine Hickey |
| 1968 | Timothy Murphy | 2003 | Arthur J. Doran, Jr. |
| 1969 | Rev. Finian Sullivan | 2004 | Peter Smith |
| 1970 | Dr. Thomas Broderick | 2005 | J. Emmett Murphy |
| 1971 | Thomas A. Brogan | 2006 | Aileen Burns Flath |
| 1972 | Garrett Fitzgerald | 2007 | Owen J. McClain |
| 1973 | John E. Flynn | 2008 | Michael Morley |
| 1974 | Dr. James F. X. O’Rourke | 2009 | Richard Fitzgerald |
| 1975 | Emmett Burke | 2010 | Dennis McSpedon |
| 1976 | Thomas G. McSpedon | 2011 | Roy McLaughlin |
| 1977 | Rev. John J. Foley | 2012 | Peter X. Kelly |
| 1978 | Msgr. James McDermott | 2012 | (M) Arthur J. Doran, Jr. |
| 1979 | John J. Flynn | 2013 | William P. Harrington |
| 1980 | John J. Higgins | 2013 | (M)Joanie Madden |
| 1981 | Frank H. Reagan | 2014 | Rev. Thomas Collins |
| 1982 | Thomas Flynn | 2015 | Timothy Rooney, Jr. |
| 1983 | Rev. Francis A. Walsh | 2016 | Patrick Quinn |
| 1984 | William F. Harrington | 2017 | Timothy Cardinal Dolan |
| 1985 | William C. Finneran | 2018 | Ambassador Anne Anderson |
| 1986 | Patrick J. Grimes, Jr. | 2019 | Caitriona Clarke |
| 1987 | Martin J. Harding | 2022 | Patricia Donovan McCrudden |
| 1988 | Sean Kelly | 2023 | Rev. Brendan Fitzgerald |
| 1989 | Sister Mary Linehan, SC | 2024 | Moira Kiernan |
| 1990 | Matthew McPartland | 2025 | Denis Mulcahy |