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Notable alumni

See also Category:Alumni of the University of Liverpool.

Academia

• Professor Sir Ian Kershaw, historian
• Diarmaid MacCulloch, historian
• Sir John Neale, historian of Tudor England
• Sir Michael Thompson, academic
• Hossein Bashiriyeh, Iranian professor of Political science

Business

• Sanjay Jha, CEO of Motorola,Inc. and Motorola Mobile Devices.

Law

• Rex Makin, solicitor and philanthropist
• Lord Nicholls, retired Law Lord

Literature

• Torben Betts, award-winning playwright
• Carol Ann Duffy, Poet Laureate
• Brian Keaney, children's author
• Sir Frank Kermode, literary critic
• Margaret Murphy, crime writer
• Olaf Stapledon, novelist and philosopher
• Lytton Strachey, biographer and essayist
• Steve Voake, children's author

Media

• Roger Bolton, broadcaster and television producer
• Phil Redmond, television producer
• Winifred Robinson, broadcaster
• Jon Snow, Channel 4 television news presenter

Politics

• Tony McNulty, Labour MP and government minister
• Beverley Hughes Labour MP and government minister, PC
• Andrew Norton, American politician
• Scott Seaman-Digby, Conservative Councillor and Prospective Parliamentary Candidate
• Margaret Simey, social and political campaigner
• Tung Chee Hwa, first Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
• Baroness Walmsley, politician
• Maeve Sherlock OBE

Public Service

• Dame Stella Rimington, Director-General of MI5
• Sir Leigh Lewis, permanent secretary

Science and medicine

• Charles Barkla, Physicist and Nobel Laureate
• Dr Robert Roland Hughes, pioneer in Neuroscience and Electroencephalography
• John Holt, physicist
• Wolfgang Rindler, physicist
• Martin Smith, vehicle designer
• "Professor" Sid Watkins, former Formula 1 chief medical officer
• Verna Wright, physician and Christian evangalist
• Sir David Weatherall, Regius Professor of Medicine (Oxford), 1992–2000
• Jim Woodcock, Professor of software engineering

Sport

• Steve Coppell, footballer and manager
• Barry Horne (footballer), journalist and pundit
• Brian Hall

Performing Arts

• Helen Marnie, member of the band Ladytron
• Ernest Newman, music critic and biographer of Wagner
• Dee Plume and Sue Denim, musicians from the band Robots in Disguise
• Steve Firth, musician
• Rory Jennings, actor
• Patricia Routledge, actress

Other

• Maxwell Fry, modernist architect
• James Stirling

• Clive Barker
• Stephen Bayley
• Paula Byrne
• Frances Crook
• Victoria Derbyshire
• Rob Grant
• Nick Grimshaw
• Syed Kamall
• Peter Kilfoyle
• Robert Legget
• Oliver W F Lodge
• Chris Lowe
• Anna Maxwell Martin
• Declan McManus (Honorus Causa)
• Doug Naylor
• Gordon Oakes
• Stel Pavlou
• Amha Selassie of Ethiopia
• Sir Robin Saxby
• F.E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead

Nobel Prize winners

Overall there have been eight Nobel Prize Laureates who have been based at the University during a significant point in their career.

• Sir Ronald Ross (awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1908) for his work with malaria.
• Professor Charles Barkla (awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1917) for discovering the electromagnetic properties of X-rays.
• Sir Charles Sherrington (awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine in 1932) for his research into neurons.
• Sir James Chadwick (awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1935) for discovering neutrons.
• Sir Robert Robinson (awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1947) for his research into anthocyanins and alkaloids.
• Professor Har Gobind Khorana (awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine in 1968) for his work on the interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis.
• Professor Rodney Porter (awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine in 1972) for his discovery of the structure of antibodies.
• Professor Joseph Rotblat (awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995) for his efforts with nuclear disarmament.