This list of University of Sheffield people is a selected list of notable past staff and students of the University of Sheffield .
Notable alumni
Academics
Syed I. Ahson , computer science professor, education management professional,[1] researcher, and author[2]
Percy Anstey , Principal of Sydenham College of Commerce and Economics in Mumbai (1914-1920)
Stephen Billings (1951–2022), University Dept of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering professor[3]
Freda Briggs , emeritus Professor, University of South Australia , child protection expert
Thom Brooks , Dean, Durham Law School & Professor of Law and Government Durham University (PhD Philosophy 2004)
Alasdair Cochrane , Professor of Political Theory, University of Sheffield (BA Politics 2000)
Sir Paul Curran , President, City, University of London (BSc Geography 1976)
Roma Gill , Reader in English Literature (1963-1984)
Paddy Nixon , Vice-Chancellor & President, Ulster University (PhD 1994)
Stuart Palmer FREng, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, University of Warwick
Michael Sterling , Vice-Chancellor, University of Birmingham (BEng Electronic and Electrical Engineering 1967, PhD 1971)
George Martin Stephen , High Master, St Paul's School (PhD)
John Sutton , Sir John Hicks Professor of Economics, London School of Economics
Richard Wilding OBE , Professor of Supply Chain Strategy, Cranfield University and Chairman of the Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transport (BSc (Tech) Material Science 1987)
Business people
Richard Cousins , CEO of Compass Group world's largest foodservice company
Gareth Davis , Chairman of M&C Saatchi and former CEO of Imperial Brands
Hussain Dawood , Chairman of Dawood Hercules Corporation Limited , Engro Corporation Limited
John Devaney , chairman, Marconi PLC
Jeremy Grantham , co-founder of GMO asset management
Param Singh , Property Developer, Entrepreneur
Penny Hughes , former president of Coca-Cola Enterprises (UK) (BSc (Hons) Chemistry )
Sir Peter Middleton , Camelot Barclays Chairman
Edward H Ntalami , Chief Executive, Capital Markets Authority, Kenya
Muyiwa Oki , president of the Royal Institute of British Architects (2023-2025)
Jim O'Neill , Head of global economic research, Goldman Sachs and coined the thesis of BRIC countries
Richard Simmons , CEO Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE )
Wei Yang , Founder of Wei Yang & Partner, Town Planner and Urban Designer (MSc 2001, PhD 2005)
Lawyers
David Childs , former Managing Partner of Clifford Chance
Mohammad Qasim Hashimzai , Deputy Minister of Justice, Afghanistan
Md. Muzammel Hossain , Chief Justice of Bangladesh
Henry M. Joko-Smart , former Sierra Leonean Supreme Court Justice
Sir Maurice Kay Lord Justice of Appeal
Sir Paul Kennedy , Lord Justice of Appeal , Interception of Communications Commissioner
Sir Nigel Knowles , CEO of the Anglo-American law firm DLA Piper
Dame Julia Macur , Lord Justice of Appeal
Sir Alistair MacDuff , High Court of Justice of England and Wales
Dame Anne Rafferty , Lord Justice of Appeal
Tommy Sihotang , Indonesian Lawyer
Arifin Zakaria , Chief Justice of Malaysia In November 2013, for the first time in history, the Court of Appeal had an all-Sheffield alumni bench. The judges sitting were Lord Justice Maurice Kay (LLB Law, 1964; PhD Law, 1971 and Hon LLD, 2003), Lady Justice Anne Rafferty (LLB Law, 1971 and Hon LLD, 2005) and Lady Justice Julia Macur (LLB Law, 1978).[4]
This event was also extremely significant because outside Oxford and Cambridge, Sheffield now has the record for the highest number of graduates appointed to the bench above any other UK University.
Authors
Lee Child , author (LLB)Lindsay Ashford , author[5]
Lee Child , novelist (LLB)[6]
Sophie Deen , children's book author
Katie Edwards (author) (alumni and former faculty 2012–2020)
Gregory Evans , dramatist
Nicci Gerrard , author
Joanne Harris , author (later became faculty)
Brooke Magnanti , a.k.a. "Belle de Jour", author
Hilary Mantel , author (LLB), two times Booker Prize winner[6]
Jack Rosenthal , playwright
John Thompson (poet) (1938–1976), Canadian poet
Media and artists
Van Badham , columnist for The Guardian , playwright
Carol Barnes , ITN Newsreader
Douglas Bostock , conductor
Lucie Cave , journalist, editor of Heat magazine
Munya Chawawa , comedian
Peter Cheeseman , theatre director, leading pioneer of theatre-in-the-round and documentary drama
Chris Chibnall , television screenwriter and producer[7]
Stephen Daldry , stage and film director
Martin Fry , lead singer of ABC [6]
Brian Glover , actor
Ian Hallard , actor
Eddie Izzard , comedian
Tim Key , comedian, poet, recipient of the Edinburgh Comedy Award 2009
Glenn Moore , comedian
Sid Lowe , journalist and columnist for The Guardian
Paul Mason , journalist and former economics editor for the BBC's Newsnight
John O'Leary , Times Higher Education Supplement editor
Rachel Shelley , actress (BA (Hons) English and Drama)
Linda Smith , comedian and head of the British Humanist Association
Dan Walker , journalist and television presenter
Andrew Wilson , Sky News presenter and former foreign correspondent
Frank Worrall , The Sun , author and journalist
Selina Thompson , performance artist and playwright
Pioneers
Politicians
David Blunkett Jean-Paul Adam , Minister for Foreign Affairs (Seychelles)
Peter Adams , Canadian politician
Jonathan Arnott , UK Independence Party MEP
Kevin Barron , Labour MP
Gerry Bermingham , Labour MP
Sir Jake Berry , Conservative MP
Olivia Blake , Labour MP for Sheffield Hallam
David Blunkett , MP for Sheffield Brightside and former Home Secretary
Nurettin Canikli , Incumbent First Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey in Binali Yaldrim 's Cabinet, former Minister for Customs and Trade, Turkey
Sarah Champion Labour MP
David Clark, Baron Clark of Windermere , Labour peer
Serge Joyal , Canadian Senator
Judith Kirton-Darling , Labour Member of the European Parliament
Nicholas Liverpool , 6th President of Dominica
Justin Madders , Labour MP
Anne Main , Conservative MP for St Albans
Brian Millard , leader of Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council from 2005 to 2007
Shaffaq Mohammed , Liberal Democrat MEP
Hugo Antonio Laviada Molina , Mexican politician
Fenella Mukangara , Minister of Information, Culture and Sports, Tanzania
Philip Norton, Baron Norton of Louth , Conservative peer & academic
Steve Reed , Labour MP
Onkar Sahota , Labour London Assembly Member for Ealing and Hillingdon
Kadi Sesay , Minister of Trade and Industry, Sierre Leone
Graham Stringer , Labour MP
Yb Dato' Rashid bin Hasnon , Deputy Chief Minister of Penang, Malaysia PKR MLA
Sir Chung Sze-yuen , former Convenor of the Executive Council of Hong Kong
Montfort Tadier , Jersey Politician
Ann Taylor, Baroness Taylor of Bolton , Labour MP for Bolton West and Dewsbury , subsequently a life peer and minister at the Ministry of Defence
Nick Timothy , Downing Street Chief of Staff
Eric Graham Varley , former Labour Cabinet minister
Caroline Voaden , Liberal Democrat MEP
Sir Frederick Archibald Warner , diplomat & Member of the European Parliament
Public servants
The Lord Hogan-Howe Khalid S. Al-Ageel , General Secretary of the High Commission for Industrial Security, Saudi Arabia
Maggie Atkinson , Children's Commissioner for England
Sir Michael Carlisle , Senior Civil Servant
Lim Neo Chian , former Chief of Singapore Army
Major-General Andrew Farquhar , British Army
Sir Vincent Fean , British diplomat
Andy Haldane , Chief Economist at the Bank of England
Bernard Hogan-Howe, Baron Hogan-Howe , Commissioner, London's Metropolitan Police Service
Sir Ken Jones , Deputy Commissioner of Victoria Police , Chief Constable , Sussex Police
Vanessa Lawrence , Ordnance Survey Director-General
Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Montgomery , Director General, UK Border Force
Air Chief Marshal Stuart Peach, Baron Peach , Chief of the Defence Staff , UK
Crispian Strachan , Chief Constable of Northumbria Police
Phil Wheatley , Director-General HM Prison Service
Clergy
Wesley Carr , Dean of Westminster Abbey
John Chew , Bishop of Singapore
Glenn Davies , Archbishop of Sydney
Jan McFarlane , Bishop of Repton
Tony Nichols , Bishop of North West Australia
John Parkes , Bishop of Wangaratta
Martyn Percy , Dean of Christ Church, Oxford
Henry William Scriven , Bishop of Pittsburgh
Stephen Smyth , General Secretary of Action of Churches Together in Scotland (2007–2014)
Martyn Snow , Bishop of Leicester
Alan Winton , Bishop of Thetford
Scientists
Sir Donald Bailey , civil engineer and inventor of the Bailey bridge
Anna Batchelor , first woman Dean of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine and past president, Intensive Care Society (MBBS 1980)
Sir Harold Kroto , Nobel Prize-winning chemist (BSc (Hons) Chemistry , 1961; PhD, 1961–1964)
Sir Hans Kornberg , biochemist , Master of Christ's College Cambridge
Sir Richard Roberts , Nobel Prize-winning geneticist (BSc (Hons) Chemistry, 1965; PhD, 1968)
Olive Scott , paediatric cardiologist (MBBS 1948; MD 1957)
Sports people
Jessica Ennis , Olympic Gold medallist, heptathlete Nick Beighton , Paralympic Bronze Medallist 2016, Men's KL2 canoe sprint
Herbert Chapman , footballer and manager
Zara Dampney , beach volleyball player
David Davies , The Football Association Chief Executive
Jessica Ennis , Olympic Gold Medalist, heptathlete [6]
Catherine Faux , triathlete
Tony Miles , the United Kingdom's first chess grand master
Bryony Page , Olympic Silver Medallist 2016, trampolining
C R Roberts , athlete
Tim Robinson , England International Cricketer
Hollie Webb , Olympic Gold Medallist 2016, women's hockey
David Wetherall , footballer
David Wetherill , Paralympic table tennis player
Kristian Jones and Jamie Stevenson , orienteers with medals at world championships
Lizzy Banks , professional cyclist[10]