University of Liverpool Admitted Student Profiles & Alumni

Dame Stella Rimington

First female Director‑General of MI5

N/A

N/A

Dame Rose Heilbron

First female judge at the Old Bailey

LLB, LLM

1935, 1937

Tung Chee‑hwa

First Chief Executive of Hong Kong SAR

BEng

1964

Judge Wendy Beetlestone

U.S. Federal Judge; Chancellor of Liverpool

BA Philosophy

1984

James Quincey

Chairman & CEO of Coca‑Cola

BEng (Electronic Engineering)

1986

Tulip Mazumdar

BBC global health correspondent

BA Sociology

2002

Anna Maxwell Martin

BAFTA-winning actress (Motherland, Good Omens)

BA History

1998

Victoria Derbyshire

BBC TV & radio journalist

BA English Language & Literature

1989

Megan McCubbin

Science communicator, BBC Springwatch

BSc Zoology

2018

Josef Rotblat

Nobel Peace Prize laureate for nuclear disarmament

PhD

1950

Charles Barkla

Nobel Prize in Physics for X‑ray work

BSc (Maths)

1917

Har Gobind Khorana

Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine for genetic code interpretation

PhD

1968

Rodney Porter

Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine for antibody structure

BSc Biochemistry

1972

Frank Duckworth

Statistician; developed Duckworth–Lewis method in cricket

BSc Physics, PhD

1961, 1965

Matt Taylor

Rosetta mission project scientist at ESA

MPhys

1997

Dr Amir Khan

TV doctor, GP, and author (Good Morning Britain)

MBChB

2004

Stephen Bayley

Cultural critic and design journalist

MA

1975

Carol Ann Duffy

Former UK Poet Laureate

BA Philosophy (Hons)

1977

Ian Kershaw

Historian, authority on 20th-century Germany

BA History (Hons)

1964

Anton Lesser

Actor (Game of Thrones)

BA Architecture (Hons)

1973

Chris Lowe

Musician (Pet Shop Boys)

BA Architecture (Hons)

1981

Patricia Routledge

Actress (Keeping Up Appearances)

BA English Language & Literature

1951

Gwen Alston

Pioneering aerodynamicist and educator

N/A

N/A

Nick Grimshaw

BBC radio and TV presenter

BA Communications & Media Studies

N/A

Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara

First President & Prime Minister of The Gambia

Veterinary degree?

N/A

Dariush Borbor

Iranian architect & urban planner; international award-winner

N/A

N/A

Emma Watkinson

Entrepreneur; founder of SilkFred

BA English Language & Literature

2008

Bryan Biggs

MBE-awarded arts leader, Director at Bluecoat arts centre

Fine Art

1975