Anne Sharpley

Anne Sharpley (1928–1989) was an English journalist.

In the 1940s, she attended art school in York. While there, she won a Vogue magazine competition, which led to a career in journalism. During the 1960s, she was an investigative reporter with London's Evening Standard. She reputedly told Ann Leslie that a female foreign correspondent should:

She appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 2 January 1967.

Six photographs of her, five in a 1961 series by Ida Kar and one from 1965, by Jorge Lewinski, are in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery. The plinth is inscribed with the words:

William Stevenson described how she was nicknamed "Shapely Sharpley" by Randolph Churchill.