Politics
- Nick Ainger, politician
- Clive Betts
- 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
- John Christopher Cutler, second governor of the State of Utah
- Nick Clegg, Liberal Democrat Leader since 2007 and Deputy Prime Minister
- William Dronfield, early trade unionist
- George Hadfield, 19th century politician
- Evan Harris, Liberal Democrat politician
- Roy Hattersley, politician
- Samuel Holberry, Chartist
- Isaac Ironside, Chartist
- Oona King, politician
- Helen Jackson
- 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
- John Parker, 19th century politician
- Sir Irvine Patnick OBE, 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
- Cecil Henry Wilson, politician
- G. H. B. Ward, campaigner for access to moorland
- Hugo Young, journalist and political commentator
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“The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.”
—Ben C. Bradlee (b. 1921)