page_title: University of Liverpool
section_title: Notable alumni
hierarchical_section_title: University of Liverpool / Notable alumni
caption_attribution_description: Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih conducts a press conference in the Pentagon on Sept. 14, 2006. Salih discussed some of the many problems being faced by his government and stressed that progress is being made. Salilh expressed gratitude for all America has done for his nation and remained hopeful that the U.S. will continue to stay the course with Iraq's fledgling democracy.
context_page_description: The University of Liverpool is a public university based in the city of Liverpool, England. Founded as a college in 1881, it gained its royal charter in 1903 with the ability to award degrees and is also known to be one of the six original 'red brick' civic universities. It comprises three faculties organised into 35 departments and schools. It is a founding member of the Russell Group, the N8 Group for research collaboration and the university management school is AACSB accredited.
  Ten Nobel Prize winners are amongst its alumni and past faculty and the university offers more than 230 first degree courses across 103 subjects. Its alumni include the CEOs of GlobalFoundries, ARM Holdings, Tesco, Motorola and The Coca-Cola Company. It was the world's first university to establish departments in oceanography, civic design, architecture, and biochemistry at the Johnston Laboratories. In 2006 the university became the first in the UK to establish an independent university in China, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, making it the world's first Sino-British university. For 2018-19, Liverpool had a turnover of £577.7 million, including £98.7 million from research grants and contracts.
context_section_description: Gwen Alston, aerodynamicist and educationalist
  Clive Barker, fantasy and horror fiction writer and film director
  Wade Barrett, professional wrestler
  Hossein Bashiriyeh, Iranian professor of political science
  Stephen Bayley
  Dr Jaclyn Bell, Senior Teaching Fellow at Imperial College and Trainee Astronaut
  Torben Betts, playwright
  Roger Bolton, broadcaster and television producer
  George Henry Bolsover Director, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, London, 1947–76
  John Brophy, soldier and author
  Dariush Borbor, Iranian architect, urban planner, civic designer, writer
  Paula Byrne, biographer
  Mary Cannell, educator, historian and biographer
  Ong Teng Cheong, 5th President of Singapore
  Philip Clarke, CEO Tesco PLC
  Steve Coppell, footballer and manager
  Alexander Critchley, M.P. for Liverpool Edge Hill 1893–1943.
  Frances Crook
  Victoria Derbyshire
  Frank Duckworth, statistician, developed the Duckworth–Lewis method
  Carol Ann Duffy, Poet Laureate
  Colum Eastwood, Northern Irish politician and SDLP leader
  Steve Firth, musician
  Maxwell Fry, modernist architect
  Ernest Gibbins, dipterist
  Simon Gilbert (journalist), journalist and author
  Rob Grant
  Nick Grimshaw
  Brian Hall, footballer
  Rose Heilbron, barrister and judge
  William Holford, Baron Holford, architect and town planner
  John Holt, physicist
  Barry Horne, journalist and pundit
  Beverley Hughes MP PC
  Dr Robert Roland Hughes, pioneer in Neuroscience and Electroencephalography
  Irshad Hussain, Chemist and Materials scientist
  Frank Irving, aeronautical engineer, glider pilot and author
  Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara, first President and Prime Minister of The Gambia
  Rory Jennings, actor
  Sanjay Jha, Co-CEO Motorola, Inc. and CEO of Motorola's Mobile Devices business
  Syed Kamall
  Alfredo Kanthack FRCP FRCS, pathologist
  Brian Keaney, children's author
  Sir Frank Kermode, literary critic
  Sir Ian Kershaw, historian
  Peter Kilfoyle
  Robert Legget, civil engineer, historian, and non-fiction writer
  Sir Leigh Lewis, permanent secretary
  Dr Ann Limb CBE DL first woman Chair of The Scouts
  William Lindesay OBE, English conservationist
  Oliver W F Lodge
  Chris Lowe, musician
  Diarmaid MacCulloch, historian
  Alden McLaughlin, Premier of the Cayman Islands
  Rex Makin, solicitor and philanthropist
  Helen Marnie, member of the band Ladytron
  Anna Maxwell Martin
  Rod I. McAllister, architect
  Tony McNulty, Labour Minister
  Brian Millard, leader of Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council from 2005 to 2007
  Ben Mosley, expressive artist
  Margaret Murphy, crime writer
  Doug Naylor, co-creator of Red Dwarf
  Sir John Neale, historian of Tudor England
  Ernest Newman, music critic and biographer of Wagner
  Lord Nicholls, retired Law Lord
  Charlotte Nichols, Labour MP for Warrington North 2019–
  Paddy Nixon, Vice-Chancellor & President of the University of Canberra
  Gordon Oakes
  Stel Pavlou, author and screenwriter
  David Andrew Phoenix OBE, biochemist
  Dee Plume and Sue Denim, musicians from the band Robots in Disguise
  Ceri Powell, geologist and senior Royal Dutch Shell executive
  John Preston (1950-2017), music industry executive
  James Quincey, CEO The Coca-Cola Company
  Phil Redmond, television producer
  Sir Leonard Redshaw, shipbuilder
  Gordon Jackson Rees, paediatric anaesthesiologist
  Wolfgang Rindler, physicist
  Dame Stella Rimington, Director-General of MI5
  Roy Roberts, renowned actor and former oil tycoon
  Winifred Robinson, broadcaster
  Michael Rosen, children's writer
  Patricia Routledge, actress
  Ben Russell, entrepreneur, singer songwriter, model
  Barham Ahmad Salih, 8th President of Iraq
  Amha Selassie of Ethiopia
  Sir Robin Saxby, former chairman of ARM Holdings
  Maeve Sherlock OBE
  Margaret Simey, social and political campaigner
  F.E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead
  Martin Smith, vehicle designer
  Jon Snow, Channel 4 television news presenter
  Edward Snowden, system administrator and counterintelligence trainer
  Olaf Stapledon, novelist and philosopher
  Sir James Stirling, architect
  Lytton Strachey, biographer and essayist
  Edward Stringer, Deputy Chief Defence, Royal Air Force
  Matt Taylor, project scientist for the Rosetta mission.
  Sir Michael Thom
caption: Barham Salih. Prime Minister of Iraqi Kurdistan
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