Are the people involved in or affected by project activities and include the project sponsor, project team, support staff, customers, users, suppliers, and even project opponents.

The people who are affected or are involved the activities of the business are termed as stakeholders. A stakeholder is someone who has any kind of interest or his interests are getting affected by the decisions or the activities of the business. The stakeholders can be debtors, creditors, customers, Government, employees, managers, project managers etc.