The following is a list of famous Sunderland AFC fans:

• Kate Adie - newsreader

• Michael Bridges - professional footballer

• Paul Collingwood - professional cricketer

• Steven Cram MBE - professional athlete

• Michael Gray - professional footballer

• David Jones - newsreader for Sky Sports News

• Grant Leadbitter - professional footballer

• Sugar Ray Leonard - professional boxer

• Brian Marwood - professional footballer

• Tommy Miller - professional footballer

• Heather Mills - ex-wife of Sir Paul McCartney

• Martin O'Neill - professional footballer and manager
• Steven Simonson - professional footballer

• David Stewart - professional musician

• Neil Tennant - professional musician
• Phil Brown - professional footballer and manager
• Mark Webber - F1 Driver
• Tasmin Archer - professional musician
• Lauren Laverne - professional radio and television presenter, author and singer
• Timothy Rice - professional lyricist
• Peter O'Toole - professional actor
• Jordan Henderson - professional footballer
• Alan Rice - professional musician
• Melanie Hill - professional actress
• Alex Kapranos - professional actress
• Gary Rowell - professional footballer
• Denise Robertson - writer and professional television broadcaster
• James Wright (better known by his pen-name James Herriot) - professional veterinarian and author
• James Bolam - professional actor
• Bryan Ferry - professional musician
• Terry Deary - professional historian and author
• Sir Paul Nicholson - industrialist and Lord Lieutenant of the County of Durham
• Neil McDiarmid - professional physiotherapist