Here are some great pictures of some of the Steel City’s best-known sons and daughters then and now.
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5. Global star
Sean Bean arrives for the Game of Thrones eighth and final season premiere at Radio City Music Hall on April 3, 2019 in New York Photo: ANGELA WEISS
6. Musical Michael
Monty Python star, TV globetrotter, actor and director Michael Palin presents music magazine Melody Maker's Top Girl Singer award(!) to Kate Bush in November 1979 Photo: Keystone
7. Spring chickens
Michael Palin visiting Whirlow Hall Farm, where he is a patron, during their 40th anniversary year in 2019 Photo: Chris Etchells
8. Space face
Sheffielder Helen Sharman became the first-ever British astronaut when she went on a mission to the Mir space station in May 1991. Aged 27, she was also the first woman on board the Mir Photo: Sheffield Newspapers