Disclosed is a high-strength steel sheet having a tensile strength (TS) of 780 MPa or more and excellent in ductility, fatigue properties, balance between high strength and ductility, surface characteristics, and sheet passage ability that can be obtained by providing a predetermined chemical composition and a steel microstructure that contains, by area, 20-50 % of ferrite, 5-25 % of bainitic ferrite, and 5-20 % of martensite, and that contains, by volume, 10 % or more of retained austenite, in which the retained austenite has a mean grain size of 2 µm or less, a mean Mn content in the retained austenite in mass% is at least 1.2 times the Mn content in the steel sheet in mass%, and the retained austenite has a mean free path of 1.2 µm or less.