User:Mfaddersb/draft of UoL Alumni
Notable alumni
[edit]See also Category:Alumni of the University of Liverpool.
Academia
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Sanjay Jha, CEO of Motorola,Inc. and Motorola Mobile Devices.
Law
[edit]- Rex Makin, solicitor and philanthropist
- Lord Nicholls, retired Law Lord
Literature
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Roger Bolton, broadcaster and television producer
- Phil Redmond, television producer
- Winifred Robinson, broadcaster
- Jon Snow, Channel 4 television news presenter
Politics
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Dame Stella Rimington, Director-General of MI5
- Sir Leigh Lewis, permanent secretary
Science and medicine
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Steve Coppell, footballer and manager
- Barry Horne (footballer), journalist and pundit
- Brian Hall
Performing Arts
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]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.