In 1948 the IOC member from Egypt Mohammed Taher Pasha during the London Olympic Games made a proposal to organize games among the Mediterranean countries. Three years later in 1951, he became the creator and the organizer of the first Mediterranean Games. Since that date 64 leaders from this part of the world have been elected members of the IOC.
(1951) – Bonnin de la Bonninière count Jean De Beaumont (France)
(1951) – Giorgio de Stefani (Italie)
(1952) – Sheik Gabriel Gemayel (Lebanon)
(1952) – Pedro Ybarra, Marquis de Mac-Mahon (Spain)
(1955) – Suat Erler (Turkey)
(1957) – Saul Christovao Ferreira Pires (Portugal)
(1960) – Ahmed Eldemerdash Touny (Egypt)
(1960) – Boris Bakrac (Yugoslavia)
(1961) – Hadj Mohammed Benjelloun (Morocco)
(1963) – General Raul Pereira de Castro (Portugal)
(1963) – H.M King Constantine (Greece)
(1964) – Giulio Onesti (Italy)
(1965) – Mohamed Mzali (Tunisia)
(1965) – Vice-Admiral Pyrros Lappas (Greece)
(1966) – H.E Juan Antonio Samaranch (Spain)
(1970) – Maurice Herzog (France)
(1974) – Mohammed Zerguini (Algeria)
(1975) – Epaminondas Petralias (Greece)
(1977) – Bashir Mohamed Attarabulsi (Libya)
(1978) – Nikolaos Nissiotis (Greece)
(1981) – Nikos Filaretos (Greece)
(1982) – Franco Carraro (Italy)
(1984) – Turgut Atakol (Turkey)
(1985) – Carlos Ferrer (Spain)
(1985) – HSH Prince Albert of Monaco (Monaco)
(1986) – Lambis V. Nikolaou (Greece)
(1987) – Slobodan Filipovic (Yugoslavia)
(1988) – Sinan Erdem (Turkey)
(1988) – Borislav Stankovic (Yugoslavia)
(1989) – Fernando Ferreira Lima Bello (Portugal)
(1990) – Philippe Chatrier (France)
(1992) – Primo Nébiolo (Italy)
(1994) – Mario Pescante (Italy)
(1995) – Jean-Claude Killy (France)
(1995) – Antun Vrdoljak (Croatia)
(1995) – Toni Khoury (Lebanon)
(1995) – Mustapha Larfaoui (Algeria)
(1996) – Ottavio Cinquanta (Italy)
(1996) – HRH Infanta Dona Pilar de Bourbon (Spain)
(1996) – Guy Drut (France)
(1998) – Mounir Sabet (Egypt)
(1998) – Nawal El Moutawakel-Bennis (Morocco)
(1998) – Muhammad Samih Moudallal (Syria)
(1999) – Hassiba Boulmerka (Algeria)
(1999) – Manuela Di Centa (Italy)
(2000) – Alfredo Goyeneche (Spain)
(2000) – Bruno Grandi (Italy)
(2000) – Henri Sérandour (France)
(2000) – Manuel Estiarte (Spain)
(2001) – Juan Antonio Samaranch Jr (Spain)
(2002) – Kikis Lazarides (Cyprus)
(2004) – Hicham El Guerrouj (Morocco)
(2004) – Rania Elwani (Egypt)
(2006) – Francesco Ricci Bitti (Italy)
(2008) – Ugur Erdener (Turkey)
(2010) – Soledad Marisol Casado Estupinan (Spain)
(2011) – José Perurena Lopes (Spain)
(2013) – Tony Estanguet (France)
(2015) – Nenad Lalovic (Serbia)
(2016) – Ivo Ferriani (Italy)
(2017) – Jean-Christophe Rolland (France)
(2019) – Giovanni Malago (Italy)
(2019) – Spyros Capralos (Greece)
(2019) – Mustapha Berraf (Algeria)
(2020) – Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic (Croatia)