User:Mfaddersb/draft of UoL Alumni

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.