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
Torben Betts, playwright
Roger Bolton, broadcaster and television producer
George Henry Bolsover, director
John Brophy, soldier and author
Dariush Borbor, Iranian architect, urban planner, civic designer, writer
Daasebre Oti Boateng, Ghanaian statistician, 1st black chairman of the United Nations Statistical Commission
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, Chief Executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform
Victoria Derbyshire, journalist and newsreader
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 PC, former Member of Parliament (MP)
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
Emma Mbua, palaeo-anthropologist
Alden McLaughlin, Premier of the Cayman Islands
Rex Makin, solicitor and philanthropist
Helen Marnie, member of the band Ladytron
Anna Maxwell Martin, actor
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[66]
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, actor
Winifred Robinson, broadcaster
Michael Rosen, children's writer
Patricia Routledge, actress
Barham Ahmad Salih, 8th President of Iraq
Amha Selassie of Ethiopia
Sir Robin Saxby, former chairman of ARM Holdings
Maeve Sherlock OBE, social reformer and life peer
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 Thompson, academic
Tung Chee-hwa, first chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
Emma Jane Unsworth, writer
Steve Voake, children's author
Lee Bee Wah, politician
Baroness Walmsley, politician
Helen Walsh, novelist
Sid Watkins, former Formula 1 chief medical officer
Emma Watkinson, entrepreneur
Sir David Weatherall, Regius Professor of Medicine, 1992–2000
Laurence Westgaph, social historian and activist
Jim Woodcock, professor of software engineering
Verna Wright, evangelist, physician and research scientist
Warrington Yorke, Professor of Tropical Medicine, University of Liverpool