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[ 1]
Charles Herbert Aslin , architect[ 2]
Samuel Bailey , philosopher and author[ 3]
William Sterndale Bennett , composer[ 4]
Clifford Edmund Bosworth , historian[ 5]
Malcolm Bradbury , author[ 6]
Fista , artist and former graffiti artist
Michael Brennan , photographer
A. S. Byatt , novelist
Edward Carpenter , poet and activist[ 7]
Sir Francis Legatt Chantrey , sculptor[ 8]
Paul Conneally , poet, artist, musician
Thomas Creswick , painter[ 9]
Thomas Wingate Todd , anthropologist, orthodontist
Margaret Drabble , novelist[ 10]
Ebenezer Elliott , poet[ 11]
William Empson , literary critic and Professor of English at the University of Sheffield
William Flockton , architect[ 12]
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[ 13]
Mary Anne Everett Green , historian[ 14]
William John Hale , architect
Joanne Harris , author (most famously of Chocolat )
Ethel Haythornthwaite , environmental campaigner and pioneer[ 15] [ 16] [ 17]
Philip Hensher , author
Barry Hines , author
Barbara Hofland , children's writer[ 18]
John Holland , poet and journalist[ 14]
Linda Hoy , author
Henry George Hoyland , painter[ 19]
Joseph Hunter , antiquarian and historian[ 20]
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[ 14]
Marina Lewycka , author
Arthur Lismer , artist[ 21]
Stephen Mallinder , musician, writer, broadcaster and academic
Steve McCaffery , poet[ 22]
James Montgomery , editor and poet[ 23]
Alicia Moore , novelist[ 24]
Charles Mozley , artist[ 25]
Geoff Nicholson , author
Bruce Oldfield , fashion designer
John C. Parkin , architect[ 26]
Bernard Rands , composer
Jack Rosenthal , playwright[ 27]
Stanley Royle , a post-impressionist landscape painter
Margaret Ryder , artist
Joe Scarborough , artist[ 28]
Si Spencer , TV dramatist and graphic novelist
Kenneth Steel , artist
Frederick Varley , artist[ 29]
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[ 30]
John George Graves , entrepreneur and philanthropist
David James Richards , entrepreneur and multi-millionaire technologist[ 31]
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[ 32]
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[ 33]
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,[ 34] 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[ 35]
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 )[ 36]
William Broadhead , early trade unionist[ 36]
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 [ 36]
Isaac Ironside , Chartist[ 36]
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[ 14]
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[ 36]
Cecil Henry Wilson , politician
Hugo Young , journalist and political commentator
Charles Frederick Crisp , 33rd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
Religion
Science and engineering
Richard Bentall , clinical psychologist
Henry Bessemer , engineer[ 38]
Thomas Boulsover , inventor of Sheffield Plate
Harry Brearley , inventor of stainless steel
Leonard Cockayne , botanist
John Curr , coal mine and railway engineer[ 39]
Samuel Earnshaw , mathematician
Charles Harding Firth , historian[ 40]
Mark Firth , steel manufacturer
Sir John Fowler , railway engineer and co-designer of the Forth Railway Bridge [ 41]
Robert Hadfield , innovator of steel alloys
Professor David Hughes , astronomer
Benjamin Huntsman , inventor and steel manufacturer[ 42]
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 [ 43]
Sir Harry Kroto , chemist, winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry [ 44]
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[ 45]
Grenville Turner , cosmochemist, noble gas geochemist
John Paul Wild , astronomer
Sport
Micky Adams , footballer[ 46]
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[ 47]
Others
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