David Blunkett (born 6 June 1947) is a British Labour Party politician and has been Member of Parliament for Sheffield Brightside since 1987. Blind since birth and from a poor family, he rose to become Education Secretary from 1997 to 2001, and then Home Secretary from 2001 to 2004, when he resigned after a scandal.

Sir Cyril Irvine Patnick, known as Irvine Patnick, OBE (born 29 October 1929) is a businessman and former English Conservative Party politician. He was educated in Sheffield at the Central Technical School followed by Sheffield Polytechnic. A building contractor, Irvine Patnick entered politics as a member of Sheffield City Council. He was elected as Member of Parliament for Sheffield Hallam in 1987.

Frederick Mappin (16 May 1821 - 19 March 1910) was a British politician and factory owner. Born in Sheffield, Mappin worked for his father's cutlery company from the age of thirteen, running it alone after his father's death in 1841. In 1851, he became the youngest ever Master Cutler, but after a dispute with his younger brother, he left the firm, which later became part of Mappin and Webb. Mappin then bought a steelworks and implemented machine working, …

Richard Allan (born 11 February 1966) was the Liberal Democrats Member of Parliament for Sheffield Hallam from the general election of Thursday the 2 May 1997 until the dissolution of Parliament on 11 April 2005. In 1997, he unseated Irvine Patnick of the Conservative Party achieving a majority of 8,221 with a swing of 15.3%. In 2001, he was re-elected with an increased majority of 9,347. During his tenure, Allan held various committee seats, …

Roger Davison is a Liberal Democrat councillor of Sheffield City Council representing Ecclesall ward. He was the Lord Mayor of Sheffield in 2005/06. Roger Davison is the father of three girls, Miranda, Caroline and Susannah Davison. He is also a lifelong Sheffield Wednesday fan. He is currently Chairman of the Scrutiny Board for Health and Social Care covering Sheffield. He married Catherine Lodge, a fellow undergraduate at the University of East Anglia, in 1973, …

Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher OM (21 March 1865 - 18 April 1940) was an English historian, educator, and Liberal politician. Fisher was born in London, the eldest son of Herbert William Fisher (1826-1903), author of "Considerations on the Origin of the American War" and his wife Mary Louisa Jackson (1841-1916). His sister Adeline Maria Fisher was the first wife of the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, …

Fred Marshall (1883 - November 1962) was a British politician. Born in South Anston, Marshall was elected as a Labour Party member of Sheffield City Council in 1919, serving as Lord Mayor of Sheffield in 1933/4. He entered Parliament by winning the Sheffield Brightside by-election, 1930, but lost the seat at the following year's general election. Marshall was re-elected, again for Sheffield Brightside, at the 1935 UK general election.

Albert Harland (6 September 1869 - 25 February 1957) was a British politician. After studying at Temple Grove in East Sheen and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, Harland moved to Sheffield, where he set up as a snuff manufacturer. Harland joined the Conservative Party, and in 1902, he was elected to Sheffield County Borough Council, serving until 1911. In 1923, he was re-elected to the Council, and also as the Member of Parliament for Sheffield Ecclesall.

Nick Clegg has a piece in The Guardian today: The world watched in horror yesterday as the conflict in Gaza claimed its latest innocent victims in the rubble of a UN school. Any hopes of reconciliation are being snuffed out as anger spills into protests around the world. The past two weeks have been a telling indictment of the international community. We have an outgoing US president sanctioning Israel's military response and an aching silence from the president-elect.

Richard George Caborn, (born October 6, 1943) is a British politician. He has been the Labour Member of Parliament for Sheffield Central since June 1983. Until June 28 2007 he was the Minister of Sport with the rank of Minister of State at the Department of Culture, Media and Sport. He has now stepped down as Minister for Sport to be appointed as Gordon Brown's ambassador for a possible 2018 World Cup bid.

Douglas Vickers was an English industrialist and politician. He was the son of Colonel Thomas Edward Vickers (1833–1915), owner and Director of the famous Sheffield firm Vickers, Sons & Co. Ltd., and Frances Mary Vickers, née Douglas (1841–1904). He became Director of the family business in 1897, and was Master Cutler of Sheffield in 1908. He was elected as MP for Sheffield Hallam in 1918, and held the seat until 1922.

J. Batty Langley (1834 - 19 February 1914) was a British Liberal Party politician. Born in Uppingham, Langley became a wealthy timber merchant in Sheffield, and one of the city's most prominent non-conformists. He was elected to Sheffield Town Council, serving many years and becoming an alderman. In 1892, Langley became Mayor of Sheffield, and saw an eventful year in office. Sheffield became a city, while Langley organised a conference in the city, …

George Lathan (5 August 1875 - 14 June 1942) was a British trade unionist and politician. Lathan worked on the railways where he became an active trade unionist and joined the Independent Labour Party. He became President of the Railway Clerks Association from 1906 until 1912, when he became its Chief Assistant Secretary, a post he held until 1937. Lathan also joined the Labour Party, and at the 1918 UK general election, stood unsuccessfully in Watford.

Clive James Charles Betts (born January 13, 1950) is a British politician, and the Labour Member of Parliament for Sheffield Attercliffe. Born in 1950 in Sheffield, Betts was educated at the Longley School in Sheffield and King Edward VII School, Sheffield (photo); and Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he received a degree in economics and politics. He joined the Labour Party in 1969 and joined the Trades Union Congress in 1971 as an economist.

Isaac Ironside (17 September 1808 - 20 August 1870) was a British Chartist and socialist politician. Born near Masbrough, Rotherham, Ironside grew up in Sheffield, the son of Samuel Ironside, a Wesleyan lay preacher, and Mary Bradbury. On both sides of the family there were roots in the Independent Church in Masbrough - Mary's grandfather Isaac Bradbury was well known as an "Old Jacobin". Isaac's younger brother Samuel Ironside became a Methodist missionary in New Zealand, …

Air Vice Marshal Sir Frederick Hugh Sykes, GCSI, GCIE, GBE, KCB, CMG (23 July 1877 - 30 September 1954) was a military officer, British statesman and politician.

Hamer Field Russell (1876 - 6 June 1941) was a British politician. Russell attended Eton House School in Kingston-upon-Hull before becoming a builders' merchant. He became active in the Liberal Party and stood unsuccessfully as their candidate in Sheffield Ecclesall at the 1923 UK general election. Russell later joined the Conservative Party. In his new colours, he took second place in the Sheffield Brightside by-election, 1930 behind Fred Marshall.

John Wadsworth was a British trade unionist and politician. Born in West Melton in the West Riding of Yorkshire, Wadsworth worked as a coal miner and was elected checkweighman. He joined the Yorkshire Miners Association, a constituent part of the Miners Federation of Great Britain (MFGB), rising to become the Yorkshire Association's General Secretary, then in 1904 its President.

Margaret Patricia Munn (born 24 August 1959, Sheffield), is a politician in the United Kingdom. She is Labour Co-operative Member of Parliament for Sheffield Heeley, and was first elected at the 2001 general election. She is currently a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Sir Henry Kenyon Stephenson, 1st Baronet (16 August 1865 - 20 September 1947) was a British politician and businessperson. His father was Henry Stephenson. Stephenson was born into a military family in Sheffield. He became the Chairman and Managing Director of Stephenson, Blake & Co Ltd, and later the Chair of the Sheffield Gas Company. He also became the Treasurer of the University College of Sheffield, and then the first Treasurer of its successor, …

Joseph Pointer (12 June 1875 - 19 November 1914) was a British Labour Party Member of Parliament. Born in the Attercliffe district of Sheffield, Pointer became a convinced socialist early in his life, and joined the Independent Labour Party. He attended Ruskin College in Oxford for six months to study Constitutional History and Sociology. On his return to Sheffield, Pointer took part in a strike, and was thereafter unable to gain regular employment.

Louis William Smith (21 March 1879 - 15 March 1939) was a British politician. After studying at Harrogate College, Smith became an engineer and a company director. He joined the Conservative Party and was elected to represent it at the Sheffield Hallam by-election, 1928. He held the seat until his death in 1939.

Jan Wilson is a Labour councillor in Sheffield and is the current leader of Sheffield City Council. In January 2007 Councillor Wilson announced that she had been diagnosed with lung cancer, but would be continuing in her role as leader of the council.

Richard Emanuel Winterbottom (22 July 1899 - 9 February 1968) was a British Labour politician. He was Member of Parliament for Sheffield Brightside from 1950 until his death in 1968. His successor in the subsequent by-election was Edward Griffiths.

Arthur Shirley Benn, 1st Baron Glenravel, KBE (20 December 1858 - 13 June 1937) was a British politician. Benn studied at Clifton College, then at Inner Temple. He became a managing director, then the British Vice-Consul to Mobile, Alabama. Benn became active in the Conservative Party, and stood in Battersea at the 1906 UK general election. In 1907, he was elected to London County Council, a post he held for four years. He stood in Battersea again in January 1910.

William Crawford Anderson (1877 - 25 February 1919) was a British socialist politician. Born in Gamrie in Scotland, he was apprenticed to a chemist and joined the Shop Assistants' Union. In 1903, he became a trade union organiser and soon joined the Independent Labour Party (ILP). He stood unsuccessfully for the Labour Party at Hyde in the January 1910 UK general election, and at the Keighley by-election, 1911. In 1911, he became Chairman of the ILP, …

Thomas Worrall Casey (13 October 1869 - 29 November 1949) was a British Coalition Liberal Member of Parliament. Born in the Intake district of Sheffield, Casey became a Methodist preacher and a Justice of the Peace. He was later elected as the General Secretary of the Winding and General Engineers Society. At the 1918 general election, Casey was elected for the Sheffield Attercliffe constituency. However, he lost the seat at the 1922 general election.

Cecil Henry Wilson (8 September 1862 - 7 November 1945) was a British Labour Party Member of Parliament. The son of Liberal Party Member of Parliament for Holmfirth, Henry Wilson, Wilson attended Wesley College, Sheffield and the Victoria University of Manchester. In 1903, Wilson was elected to Sheffield City Council for the Darnall ward, a seat he held until 1924. He became a Justice of the Peace in 1907.

Jackie Drayton is the current (and 110th) Lord Mayor of Sheffield. Drayton was born in Coventry; she has lived since 1979 in the Burngreave area of Sheffield and since 1997 has been a member of Sheffield City Council as councillor (Labour) for Burngreave Ward. Having left school at 16 with no qualifications, Drayton took adult education classes followed by a degree in Education at the University of Warwick. She worked in education for over 25 years.

Angela Christine Smith (born 16 August 1961, Grimsby) is a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.

Charles Beilby Stuart-Wortley, 1st Baron Stuart of Wortley, PC (15 September 1851 - 24 April 1926), English statesman, was the son of James Archibald Stuart-Wortley and grandson of James Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie. He attended school at Rugby and college at Balliol College, Oxford. In 1880 Stuart-Wortley was the first Conservative to be elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Sheffield, …

Cecil Frederick Pike (26 February 1898 - 12 May 1968) was a British politician. After studying at Owens College in Manchester, Pike joined the Conservative Party. He stood unsuccessfully for the party in Rother Valley at the 1929 UK general election. He moved to contest Sheffield Attercliffe at the 1931 election. Although this was usually a safe Labour Party seat, he was able to win by just 165 votes. He was heavily defeated at the 1935 election, …

Richard Storry Deans (1868 - 31 August 1938) was a British politician. Deans studied at the University of London and then at Gray's Inn. He joined the Conservative Party, and was narrowly elected when he stood as its candidate in Sheffield Park at the 1923 UK general election. He increased his majority in 1924, but lost the seat in 1929.

Frederick Maddison (17 August 1856 - 12 March 1937) was a British politician. Born in Boston, Lincolnshire, Maddison studied in Kingston-upon-Hull before becoming a compositor. He joined the Typographical Association and soon rose in prominence, becoming President of the Trades Union Congress in 1886. In 1887, he became the first working class member of Hull Corporation. He took a post in the Labour Department of the Board of Trade, and became a labour journalist.

Philip Christopher Hoffman (26 June 1878 - 20 April 1959) was a British trade unionist and Labour Party politician. Born in London, Hoffmann studied at the Cooper's School in Stepney, then the Warehousemen, Clerks and Drapers School at Purley. He became a draper and an active trade unionist, and was soon working for the Shop Assistants Union. Hoffmann stood as the Labour Party candidate for South East Essex in 1922, and was elected at the 1923 UK general election.

Samuel Holberry (1816 - 21 June 1842) was a prominent Chartist activist. Holberry moved to Sheffield in the 1830s, where he married Mary Holberry and began working as a distiller. Together with other activists campaigning to extend the political rights given by the Reform Act 1832, he engaged in a number of peaceful protests. After a rebellion in Newport was put down, the Samuel and a group of conspirators planned a Sheffield Rising.

Charles Edward Howard Vincent, known as C. E. Howard Vincent (31 May 1849 - 7 April 1908), was a British Conservative Party Member of Parliament. Born in Sinfield, Sussex, Vincent attended Westminster School and then the Royal Military College, Sandhurst before travelling around Europe on a variety of diplomatic and military postings, during which he learnt Italian and Russian. In 1873, he qualified as a barrister.

Arthur Neal (23 September 1862 - 29 January 1933) was a British politician. Born in Sheffield, Neal attended Wesley College before becoming a solicitor. He was elected to Sheffield City Council as a Liberal in 1903, holding a seat until 1921. Neal stood for Parliament in Sheffield Hallam at both the January and December 1910 UK general elections. At the 1918 election, he won the new constituency of Sheffield Hillsborough as a supporter of the UK Coalition Government, …

David Blunkett, Secretary of State for Education 1997-2002 (tbc)