The Sunday People

Sunday People
	Front page on 4 December 2016
Type	Sunday newspaper
Format	Red top
Owner(s)	Reach plc
Editor	Peter Willis
Founded	16 October 1881
Political alignment	Centre-left,; Labour Party
Language	English
Headquarters	London
Circulation	58,831 (as of January 2024)
ISSN	0307-7292
Website	mirror.co.uk/sunday-people

The Sunday People is a British tabloid Sunday newspaper. It was founded as The People on 16 October 1881.^[4]

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. It is now published by Reach plc,^[5] 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.^[6] By December 2016 the circulation had shrunk to 239,364^[7] and by August 2020 to 125,216.^[8]

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 footballer^[9]
Fred Trueman, former England cricketer and fast bowler
Fred Harrison, an established economics author of 19 books
Dean Dunham, consumer columnist and leading authority on consumer law.