作为英国百年老牌名校，举世闻名的谢菲尔德大学一直以来都是世界各地众多优秀学子向往的名校梦想。谢菲尔德大学从最初的四所学院114名学生发展到今天的六大学院两万四千多名学生，其优良的教学品质及研究环境培育了许多世界上的杰出人才，其中包括五位诺贝尔奖得主以及众多在国际上有重要影响力的知名人物。
诺贝尔奖得主
1945 诺贝尔 生理医学奖
Lord Florey (Joseph Hunter Chair of Pathology 1932-35) 对青霉素（盘尼西林）进行分离与纯化，并发现其对传染病的疗效。
1953 诺贝尔生理医学奖
Sir Hans Krebs (Lecturer in Pharmacology 1935-45,Professor of Biochemistry 1945-54) 提出克雷布斯氏循环理论，which explains how life-giving energy is set free in cells by oxidation of glucose to carbon dioxide and water.
1967 诺贝尔化学奖
Lord Porter (Professor of Physical Chemistry 1955-66）发明闪光光解的脉冲技术，a technique which enabled chemists for the first time to measure the speed and mechanism of certain reactions that occurred too quickly for detection by conventional methods.
1993 诺贝尔生理医学奖
Richard Roberts (BSc Chemistry 1965,PhD 1968) 发现不连续基因，thereby disproving the long-held theory that genes in plants and animals were made up of continuous segments of DNA. This has important biological,medical and evolutionary consequences.
1996 诺贝尔化学奖
Sir Harry Kroto (BSc Chemistry 1961,PhD 1964) 发现一种新形式的碳分子—碳六十（buckminsterfullerene），which stands alongside the two other well-defined forms,diamond and graphite.
