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{{Short description|Tabloid  newspaper  published  in London}}
{{Use British English|date=August 2011}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2018}}
{{Infobox newspaper
| name             = Sunday People
| image            = The_Sunday_People.jpg
| caption          = Front page on 4 December 2016
| type             = Sunday newspaper
| language         = English
| format           = [[Tabloid journalism#Red tops|Red top]]
| founded          = 16 October 1881
| owners           = [[Reach plc]]
| headquarters     = London
| editor           = [[Caroline Waterston]]
| circulation      = 38,108
| circulation_date = September 2025
| circulation_ref  = <ref>{{cite web |title=Sunday People |url=https://www.abc.org.uk/product/682 |publisher=[[Audit Bureau of Circulations (UK)|Audit Bureau of Circulations]] |date=12 November 2024 |access-date=25 November 2024}}</ref>
| ISSN             = 0307-7292
| website          = {{URL|https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/sunday-people|mirror.co.uk/sunday-people}}
}}

The '''''Sunday People''''' is a British tabloid Sunday newspaper. It was founded as '''''The People''''' on 16 October 1881.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bl.uk/collections/brit19th.html |title=Concise History of the British Newspaper in the Nineteenth Century |access-date=16 March 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080224071628/http://www.bl.uk/collections/brit19th.html |archive-date=24 February 2008}}</ref>

At one point owned by [[Odhams Press]], The ''People'' was acquired along with Odhams by the [[Mirror Group]] in 1961, along with the ''[[Daily Herald (United Kingdom)|Daily Herald]]'', which eventually became ''The Sun''. It switched from [[broadsheet]] to tabloid on September 22, 1974.

The ''Sunday People'' is now published by [[Reach plc]],<ref>{{cite web |title=The People to make six staff redundant |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2009/jan/30/trinity-mirror-the-people-six-redundancies |work=The Guardian |access-date=6 February 2011 |author1=Luft, Oliver |author2=Brook, Stephen |date=30 January 2009}}</ref> and shares a website with the Mirror papers. In July 2011, when it benefited from the closure of the ''[[News of the World]]'', it had an average Sunday circulation of 806,544.<ref name="July2011">{{cite news |author=Sweney, Mark |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/feb/14/the-sun-post-christmas-sales-bounce |title=The Sun enjoys post-Christmas sales bounce with 8.3% rise |work=The Guardian |date=14 February 2014}}</ref> By December 2016 the circulation had shrunk to 239,364<ref name="circ">{{cite web |title=Print ABCs: Seven UK national newspapers losing print sales at more than 10 per cent year on year |url=http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/print-abcs-seven-uk-national-newspapers-losing-print-sales-at-more-than-10-per-cent-year-on-year/ |website=Press Gazette |access-date=28 January 2017}}</ref> and by August 2020 to 125,216.<ref>{{cite web|title=Audit Bureau of Circulation: Sunday People|url=https://www.abc.org.uk/product/682|website=ABC|access-date=22 September 2020}}</ref>

== Notable events ==
In March 1951 the ''Sunday People'' (then known as ''The People'') published an article claiming that the British military had allowed [[Iban people|Iban]] mercenaries to collect scalps from human corpses in the ongoing [[Malayan Emergency]] war. British colonial officials saw this article as a potential propaganda threat and drew plans to release a rebuttal in the ''[[Straits Times]]''. The paper's claims would later be proven true following the [[British Malayan headhunting scandal]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Poole |first=Dan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V1HcEAAAQBAJ&q=In%20March%201951%20a%20British%20newspaper%20called%20the%20people |title=Head Hunters in the Malayan Emergency: The Atrocity and Cover-Up |publisher=Pen and Sword Military |year=2023 |isbn=978-1399057417 |pages=xxvi - xxvii}}</ref>

==Notable columnists==
*[[Garry Bushell]] had a two-page television opinion column, "Bushell on the Box", but left in early 2007, later moving to the ''[[Daily Star Sunday]]''.
*[[Jimmy Greaves]], the former [[England national football team|England]] footballer<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.people.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/2010/03/28/celebrity-x-factor-93463-22143891/|title=CELEBRITY X FACTOR |author1=Jessica Boulton |author2=Katie Hind |author3=Ben Duffy |date=28 March 2010 |work=People |access-date=1 May 2012}}</ref>
*[[Fred Trueman]], former [[England Cricket Team|England]] cricketer and fast bowler
*[[Fred Harrison (author)|Fred Harrison]], an established [[economics]] author of 19 books
*[[Dean Dunham]], consumer [[columnist]] and leading authority on [[Consumer protection]].

==Editors==
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*1881: [[Sebastian Evans]]
*1890: Harry Benjamin Vogel
*1900: [[Joseph Hatton]]
*1913: John Sansome
*1922: [[Robert Donald]]
*1924: [[Hannen Swaffer]]
*1925: [[Harry Ainsworth]]
*1957: [[Stuart Campbell (journalist)|Stuart Campbell]]
*1966: [[Bob Edwards (British journalist)|Bob Edwards]]
*1972: [[Geoffrey Pinnington]]
*1982: [[Nicholas Lloyd]]
*1984: [[Richard Stott]]
*1985: [[Ernie Burrington]]
*1988: [[John Blake (English journalist)|John Blake]]
*1989: [[Wendy Henry]]
*1989: [[Ernie Burrington]] (acting)
*1990: [[Richard Stott]]
*1991: [[Bill Hagerty (journalist)|Bill Hagerty]]
*1992: [[Bridget Rowe]]
*1996: [[Brendon Parsons]]
*1998: [[Neil Wallis]]
*2003: [[Mark Thomas (newspaper editor)|Mark Thomas]]
*2008: [[Lloyd Embley]]
*2012: James Scott
*2014: [[Alison Phillips]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/mar/06/new-day-editor-alison-phillps-normal-women|title=Alison Phillips: 'The New Day is about looking behind the news'|last=Greenslade|first=Roy|date=6 March 2016|work=The Guardian|access-date=6 March 2019|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
*2016: [[Gary Jones (journalist)|Gary Jones]]<ref name="Guardian">{{cite news |last=Waterson |first=Jim |title=Gary Jones on taking over Daily Express: 'It was anti-immigrant. I couldn't sleep' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/apr/28/gary-jones-on-taking-over-daily-express-it-was-anti-immigrant-i-couldnt-sleep |access-date=27 January 2021 |work=The Guardian |date=28 April 2019}}</ref>
*2018: [[Peter Willis (journalist)|Peter Willis]]<ref name="jones">{{cite news |last1=Wynne Jones |first1=Ros |title='Heart of the Daily Mirror' and Pride of Britain founder Peter Willis dies aged 54 |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/pride-britain-founder-former-mirror-24415537 |access-date=5 July 2021 |work=Daily Mirror |date=28 June 2021}}</ref><ref name="tobitt">{{cite news |last1=Tobitt |first1=Charlotte |title=Pride of Britain founder and Mirror man of 23 years Peter Willis dies suddenly aged 54 |url=https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/peter-willis-mirror-pride-of-britain-dies/ |access-date=5 July 2021 |work=Press Gazette |date=28 June 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Waterson |first1=Jim |last2=O'Caroll |first2=Lisa |title=Peter Willis, Pride of Britain founder and ex-Mirror editor, dies at 54 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/jun/29/peter-willis-mirror-editor-pride-of-britain-founder-dies |access-date=5 July 2021 |work=The Guardian |date=29 June 2021}}</ref>
*2020: Paul Henderson
*2021: [[Gemma Aldridge]]
*2024: [[Caroline Waterston]]
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