# List of people from Sheffield

This is a list of notable people who were born in or near, or have been residents of the English city of Sheffield.

## Arts and humanities

* Sidney Oldall Addy, folklorist and historian
* Charles Herbert Aslin, architect
* Samuel Bailey, philosopher and author
* William Sterndale Bennett, composer
* Clifford Edmund Bosworth, historian
* Malcolm Bradbury, author
* Fista, artist and former graffiti artist
* Michael Brennan, photographer
* A. S. Byatt, novelist
* Edward Carpenter, poet and activist
* Sir Francis Legatt Chantrey, sculptor
* Paul Conneally, poet, artist, musician
* Thomas Creswick, painter
* Thomas Wingate Todd, anthropologist, orthodontist
* Margaret Drabble, novelist
* Ebenezer Elliott, poet
* William Empson, literary critic and Professor of English at the University of Sheffield
* William Flockton, architect
* Sarah Frankcom, artistic director of the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
* Alfred Gatty, Church of England priest and author
* Robert Murray Gilchrist, novelist
* Dave Godin, writer and journalist, authority on black American soul music
* Mary Anne Everett Green, historian
* William John Hale, architect
* Joanne Harris, author (most famously of Chocolat)
* Ethel Haythornthwaite, environmental campaigner and pioneer
* Philip Hensher, author
* Barry Hines, author
* Barbara Hofland, children's writer
* John Holland, poet and journalist
* Linda Hoy, author
* Henry George Hoyland, painter
* Joseph Hunter, antiquarian and historian
* Mary Hutton, radical labouring-class poet
* Charles Sargeant Jagger, sculptor
* David Jennings, composer
* Alice Kipling, poet
* Robert Eadon Leader, journalist and historian
* W. C. Leng, journalist
* Marina Lewycka, author
* Arthur Lismer, artist
* Stephen Mallinder, musician, writer, broadcaster and academic
* Steve McCaffery, poet
* James Montgomery, editor and poet
* Alicia Moore, novelist
* Charles Mozley, artist
* Geoff Nicholson, author
* Bruce Oldfield, fashion designer
* John C. Parkin, architect
* Bernard Rands, composer
* Jack Rosenthal, playwright
* Stanley Royle, a post-impressionist landscape painter
* Margaret Ryder, artist
* Joe Scarborough, artist
* Si Spencer, TV dramatist and graphic novelist
* Kenneth Steel, artist
* Frederick Varley, artist
* White Watson, geologist, sculptor, stonemason and carver
* John Dodsley Webster, architect
* Khalid Yasin, Islamic lecturer
* Glenn Gregory, musician, lead vocalist with Heaven 17
* Joe Elliot, musician, lead vocalist with Def Leppard
* Rick Savage, musician, bassist with Def Leppard

## Business

* Charles Boot, of Henry Boot & Co., developer of Pinewood Studios
* Carrie Rose, entrepreneur
* John Brown, industrialist
* John George Graves, entrepreneur and philanthropist
* David James Richards, entrepreneur and multi-millionaire technologist
* Lee Strafford, technology entrepreneur and philanthropist`
* Peter Stringfellow, multi-millionaire businessman
* Joseph William Thornton, confectioner, founder of Thorntons
* Thomas William Ward, industrialist and shipbreaker
* Kevin McCabe (businessman), Businessman, property developer and former owner and chairman of Sheffield United F.C.

## Entertainment

* Owen Aaronovitch, actor
* Ray Ashcroft, actor
* Derek Bailey, musician, writer
* Nick Banks, musician, drummer for Pulp
* Jason Leaver, DJ, artist, broadcaster
* Matthew Bannister, BBC Radio 5 Live presenter
* Matthew Barley, cellist
* Vikram Barn, YouTuber, member and co-founder of the Sidemen
* Keith Barron, actor
* Josephine Barstow, opera singer
* Arthur Baynes, aka Stainless Stephen, music hall comedian
* Sean Bean, actor
* Dave Berry, musician
* J. Stuart Blackton, film producer
* Gavin Bryars, musician
* Alastair Burnet, news reader
* Marti Caine, comedian
* Tony Capstick, comedian, actor, musician and broadcaster
* Paul Carrack, musician, singer of Ace, Squeeze and Mike and the Mechanics
* Joanne Catherall, musician, singer in The Human League
* Steve Clark, musician, late Def Leppard guitarist
* Jessica-Jane Clement, actor, model
* Jarvis Cocker, musician, lead singer of Pulp
* Joe Cocker, singer
* Maurice Colbourne, actor
* Christopher Colquhoun, actor
* Jamie Cook, musician, guitarist for the Arctic Monkeys
* Henry Coward, choral conductor
* Richard Coyle, actor and comedian
* Thomas Craig, actor
* Stephen Daldry, film director
* Johnny Danvers, actor and comedian
* Bruce Dickinson, musician, lead singer of Iron Maiden
* Reginald Dixon, organist, pianist and radio presenter
* Candida Doyle, keyboard player with Pulp
* Steve Edwards, singer
* Joe Elliott, musician, lead singer of Def Leppard
* Graham Fellows, comedian, actor, known as "John Shuttleworth"
* Toby Foster, comedian, works for BBC Radio Sheffield; possibly from Barnsley
* Martin Fry, musician, lead singer of ABC
* Margaret Gale, opera singer
* Mark Gasser, pianist
* Liam Gerrard, actor
* Peter Glossop, opera singer
* Brian Glover, actor and wrestler
* Michael Grandage, theatre director
* Christopher Green, writer and performer
* Richard Hawley, musician, formerly of The Longpigs
* Paul Heaton, musician, formerly of The Beautiful South
* Matthew Helders, musician, drummer for the Arctic Monkeys
* Elizabeth Henstridge, actress
* Stephanie Hill, classical-crossover vocalist and Miss England 2017/18
* Steven Houghton, actor and singer
* Charlotte Hudson, television presenter
* Robert Hudson, actor
* Jayne Irving, television presenter
* Stephen Jones, musician and novelist, formerly of Babybird
* Richard H. Kirk, musician
* Skelton Knaggs, actor
* Bobby Knutt, actor and comedian
* Ann Lee, singer, songwriter, dancer
* Tim Lever, music producer
* Susan Littler, actor
* James Lomas, Olivier Award-winning actor
* Steve Mackey, bass player with Pulp
* Emily Maitlis, television presenter
* Jonny Maudling, composer
* Patricia Maynard, actor
* Jon McClure, musician, frontman of Reverend and the Makers
* James McCourt, television presenter
* Richard McCourt, television presenter
* Patrick McGoohan, actor
* Philip Oakey, musician, lead singer of The Human League
* Nick O'Malley, musician, bassist in Arctic Monkeys
* Julian Ovenden, actor and singer
* Tony Oxley, musician
* Michael Palin, comedian, actor and travel presenter
* Judy Parfitt, actor
* Nick Park, animator and film director
* Mike Percy, music producer
* Angela Pleasence, actor
* Donald Pleasence, actor
* Martin Powell, former keyboardist of heavy metal band Cradle of Filth
* John Rawling, sport commentator
* Ian Reddington, actor
* Rony Robinson, broadcaster and writer
* Rick Savage, musician, bassist of Def Leppard
* Russell Senior, musician, former guitarist for Pulp
* David Slade, film director
* Susan Ann Sulley, musician, singer in The Human League
* Oliver Sykes, musician, lead singer of Bring Me the Horizon
* Alex Turner, musician, vocalist and songwriter for the Arctic Monkeys
* Anna Walker, television presenter
* Dan Walker, television presenter
* Martyn Ware, musician with Heaven 17
* Paul Joseph Watson, internet personality, editor of InfoWars
* Mark Webber, guitarist with Pulp
* Dominic West, actor
* Mark White, musician with ABC
* Willie Williams, set designer and video director
* Pete Willis, musician, former Def Leppard guitarist
* Tom Wrigglesworth, comedian
* Stuart Zender, bassist, songwriter and record producer

## Politics

* Nick Ainger, politician
* Clive Betts, politician
* David Blunkett, former Cabinet minister (Education Secretary, Home Secretary, and Work and Pensions Secretary)
* William Broadhead, early trade unionist
* Richard Caborn, former Minister for Sport
* Brent Charlesworth, former Lord Mayor of Nottingham and also Sheriff of Nottingham
* Nick Clegg, Liberal Democrat leader 2007-2015 and deputy prime minister 2010–2015
* John Christopher Cutler, second governor of the State of Utah
* William Dronfield, early trade unionist
* George Hadfield, 19th-century politician
* Evan Harris, Liberal Democrat politician
* Enid Hattersley, Labour Party politician and Sheffield's Lord Mayor in 1981
* Roy Hattersley, politician and writer
* Samuel Holberry, Chartist
* Isaac Ironside, Chartist
* Helen Jackson
* Oona King, politician
* J. Batty Langley, politician and trade unionist
* Nicholas Liverpool, President of Dominica
* Frederick Mappin, cutler and politician
* Mary, Queen of Scots, held under house arrest in Sheffield for 14 years
* J. T. Murphy, leader of the Shops' Stewards Movement and the Communist Party of Great Britain
* Sally Oppenheim, Conservative MP and Minister
* John Parker, 19th-century politician
* Sir Irvine Patnick, politician and Conservative Party Whip under Margaret Thatcher and John Major
* Samuel Plimsoll, politician and advocate of the Plimsoll line
* Joseph Pointer, politician and trade unionist
* Mark Serwotka, trade unionist
* Derek Simpson, trade unionist
* Angela Smith
* Henry Stephenson, politician and businessman
* George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, Earl Marshal and gaoler of Mary, Queen of Scots
* Samuel Danks Waddy
* G. H. B. Ward, campaigner for access to moorland
* Cecil Henry Wilson, politician
* Hugo Young, journalist and political commentator
* Charles Frederick Crisp, 33rd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives

## Religion

* John Balguy, divine and philosopher
* Geoffrey Blythe, Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry 1503–c1530
* John Blythe, Bishop of Salisbury 1493–1500
* William Henry Brookfield, Anglican priest, Inspector of Schools, Chaplain-in-ordinary to Queen Victoria 1809–1874
* Alexander Kilham, founder of the Methodist New Connexion church
* James Moorhouse, Bishop of Manchester 1886–1903
* Robert Sanderson, Bishop of Lincoln 1660–1663

## Science and engineering

* Richard Bentall, clinical psychologist
* Henry Bessemer, engineer
* Thomas Boulsover, inventor of Sheffield Plate
* Harry Brearley, inventor of stainless steel
* Leonard Cockayne, botanist
* John Curr, coal mine and railway engineer
* Samuel Earnshaw, mathematician
* Charles Harding Firth, historian
* Mark Firth, steel manufacturer
* Sir John Fowler, railway engineer and co-designer of the Forth Railway Bridge
* Robert Hadfield, innovator of steel alloys
* Professor David Hughes, astronomer
* Benjamin Huntsman, inventor and steel manufacturer
* Amy Johnson, pioneering female aviator
* Pieter Kok, co-developer of quantum interferometric optical lithography
* Hans Adolf Krebs, biochemist, winner of the 1953 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
* Sir Harry Kroto, chemist, winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
* Joseph Locke, railway engineer
* Peter Maitlis, organometallic chemist
* David Mellor, cutler
* Frederick Brian Pickering, metallurgist
* Juda Hirsch Quastel, biochemist
* Helen Sharman, astronaut (first Briton in space)
* Henry Clifton Sorby, microscopist and geologist
* Richard J. Roberts, biochemist
* John Roebuck, inventor
* Grenville Turner, cosmochemist, noble gas geochemist
* John Paul Wild, astronomer

## Sport

* Micky Adams, footballer
* John Amaechi, NBA basketball player
* Gordon Banks, footballer
* Dominic Barrow, rugby player
* Dave Bassett, football manager
* Steven Bellamy, British karate team
* Danny Bergara, footballer and football manager
* Adam Blythe, cyclist
* Kell Brook, professional boxer
* Jon Brown, marathon runner
* Lee Chapman, footballer
* Steve Circuit, former professional footballer
* Charles Clegg, footballer and Chairman of the Football Association
* William Clegg, footballer and politician
* Sebastian Coe, track and field athlete
* Geoffrey Cornu, cricketer
* Tommy Crawshaw, footballer for England and Sheffield Wednesday
* Lucy Creamer, climber
* Phil Davis, professional footballer
* Louis Dodds, football player
* Derek Dooley, footballer
* Jeff Eckhardt, football player
* Malcolm Elliott, professional cyclist
* Jessica Ennis, track and field athlete
* Catherine Faux, triathlete
* Hazel Findlay, rock climber
* Matt Fitzpatrick, golfer
* David Ford, footballer, scored in 1966 F.A. Cup Final
* William Foulke, aka "Fatty" Foulks; goalkeeper
* Trevor Francis, footballer and football manager
* David Fraser-Darling, cricketer
* Redfern Froggatt, footballer
* Paul Goodison, sailor
* Herol 'Bomber' Graham, boxer
* Andrew Griffiths, field hockey forward
* Keith Hackett, football referee
* Naseem Hamed, boxer
* Ernest Harper, Olympic athlete
* Cuth Harrison, racing driver
* Donna Hartley, Olympic sprinter and Commonwealth gold medalist
* David Hirst, footballer
* Emlyn Hughes, footballer and football manager
* Ritchie Humphreys, footballer, EX PFA Chairman
* Brendan Ingle, boxing trainer
* Adam Johnson, cricketer
* Paul Jones, boxer
* Nick Matthew, squash player
* Reg Matthewson, footballer
* Harry Maguire, footballer
* Devon Malcolm, cricketer
* Ray McHale, footballer
* Don Megson, footballer
* Gary Megson, footballer and football manager
* Ben Moon, rock climber
* Esme Morgan, footballer
* John Motson, football commentator
* Kyle Naughton, footballer
* Johnny Nelson, boxer
* Jon Newsome, footballer
* Carlton Palmer, footballer
* Walt Palmer, footballer
* Tony Parkes, assistant football manager
* Steve Peat, professional cyclist; three-time UCI downhill world cup overall series champion
* Albert Quixall, footballer
* Jamie Reeves, winner of World's Strongest Man
* Uriah Rennie, football referee
* Ellie Roebuck, football goalkeeper
* Ryan Rhodes, boxer
* Dave Richards, Chairman of FA Premier League and former chairman of Sheffield Wednesday
* Mark Roe, professional golfer, coach and commentator
* Joe Root, England and Yorkshire cricketer
* Alan Rouse, mountaineer
* Jackie Sewell, footballer
* Billy Sharp, footballer
* Roberta Sheffield, Para-equestrian
* David Sherwood, tennis player
* John Sherwood, international 400 metre hurdler
* Sheila Sherwood, international long jumper 1962–1974
* Ron Shudra, former NHL player
* Joe Simpson, mountaineer
* Jim Smith, footballer and football manager
* Timothy Smith, cricketer
* Ron Springett, football goalkeeper
* Mel Sterland, footballer
* Roger Taylor, tennis player, Wimbledon semi-finalist 1973
* Tommy Thorpe, footballer and cricketer
* Geoff Thompson, chairman of the Football Association
* Will Thursfield, footballer
* George Ulyett, test cricketer
* Jamie Vardy, footballer
* Michael Vaughan, captain of England cricket team (2003–2008)
* Chris Waddle, England footballer
* Edward Wainwright, test cricketer
* Kyle Walker, footballer, England right-back
* Neil Warnock, footballer and football manager
* Nicky Weaver, goalkeeper
* Chris Wilder, football manager and former player
* Howard Wilkinson, football manager
* Danny Willett, professional golfer
* Justin Wilson, motor-racing driver
* Stefan Wilson, motor-racing driver
* Dennis Woodhead, footballer 1947–1959
* Chris Woods, football goalkeeper
* Clinton Woods, boxer
* Nigel Worthington, footballer and football manager
* Harry Wragg, jockey and trainer
* Harry Wright, major league baseball player

## Others

* Major William Barnsley Allen recipient of the Victoria Cross during World War I; born in Sheffield
* Felicia Dorothea Kate Dover, notorious poisoner.
* Arnold Loosemore, World War I soldier awarded the Victoria Cross
* Charles Peace, notorious murderer