- Robin Dunbar
Robin Dunbar (born 1947) is a British anthropologist and evolutionary biologist, specialising in primate behaviour. He is best known for formulating Dunbar's number. Professor Dunbar is a director of the British Academy Centenary Research Project (BACRP) "Lucy to Language: The Archaeology of the Social Brain" and is due to leave the University of Liverpool to take up the post of Director of the Institute of Cognitive & Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Oxford, …
- David Canter
David V. Canter is a psychologist. He began his career as an "architectural psychologist studying the interactions between people and buildings, publishing and providing consultancy on the designs of offices, schools, prisons, housing and other building forms as well as exploring how people made sense of the large scale environment, notably cities. He set up the Journal of Environmental Psychology in 1980.
- David Owen
David Anthony Llewellyn Owen, Baron Owen, CH, PC (born July 2, 1938) is a British politician, Chancellor of the University of Liverpool and one of the founders of the British Social Democratic Party (SDP). He led the SDP from 1983 to 1987 and the re-formed SDP from 1988 to 1990.
- James Chadwick
Sir James Chadwick, CH (20 October 1891 - 24 July 1974) was an English physicist and Nobel laureate who is best known for discovering the neutron.
- Joseph Rotblat
Sir Joseph Rotblat, KCMG, CBE, FRS, (4 November, 1908 - 31 August, 2005) was a Polish-born British-naturalised physicist. His work on nuclear fall-out was a major contribution to the agreement of the Partial Test Ban Treaty. A signatory of the Russell-Einstein manifesto, he was secretary general of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs from its founding until 1973.
- Olaf Stapledon
William Olaf Stapledon (May 10, 1886 - September 6, 1950) was a British philosopher and author of several influential works of science fiction.
- Howard Newby
Sir Howard Newby was born in 1947 and grew up in Derby. He was vice-chancellor of the University of Southampton. His other academic posts include professor of sociology at the University of Essex and visiting appointments in Australia and the United States. From 1980-83 he was professor of sociology and rural sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In August 2001, Sir Howard ended a two-year term as president of Universities UK, …
- Alan Smithers
Professor Alan Smithers, the distinguished educationist, is best known for his distinctive style of research, which leads to him often being called upon to comment on the issues of the day. His early experience in science led him to the view that educational researchers are wrong in aping the scientific paradigm.
- Kenneth Kitchen
Kenneth Anderson Kitchen is Personal and Brunner Professor Emeritus of Egyptology and Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Archaeology, Classics and Oriental Studies, University of Liverpool, England. Kitchen is one of the leading experts on Biblical History and the Egyptian Third Intermediate Period having written over 250 books and journal articles on these and other subjects since the mid-1950s.
- Ian Shaw
Dr. Ian Shaw is an Egyptologist and senior lecturer in Egyptian archaeology at the University of Liverpool. His field work was largely focused in el-Amarna, but in recent times, he has done extensive excavations of mining and quarrying sites from many different Ancient Egyptian periods. He primarily focuses his recent work on methods and mechanics of Egyptian craftmen and laborers.
- Martin Smith
Martin Smith is an automobile designer, currently Executive Design Director for Ford of Europe.
- Marianne Elliott
Marianne Elliott is an Irish historian. She was born in the Ardoyne district of Belfast in 1948. She is the Andrew Geddes and John Rankin Professor of Modern History at the University of Liverpool. She is also the Director of the Institute of Irish Studies at the university. She has written extensively on Irish history, recieving many awards for her work. Particularly notable pubications include her biography of Wolfe Tone (1989), …
- Stephen R. L. Clark
Stephen Richard Lyster Clark (born October 30, 1945) is a British philosopher and international authority on animal rights, currently professor of philosophy and Leverhulme Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool. He specializes in the philosophy of religion, political philosophy, science fiction, and the treatment of non-human animals. He is the author of 14 books, including "The Moral Status of Animals" (1977), "From Athens to Jerusalem" (1984), …
- Alan Millard
Alan Ralph Millard is Rankin Professor Emeritus of Hebrew and Ancient Semitic Languages, and Honorary Senior Fellow, at the School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology (SACE) in the University of Liverpool. Millard worked on excavations at Tell Nebi Mend (ancient Qadesh-on-the-Orontes) and Tell Rif'at (ancient Arpad) in Syria, at Petra in Jordan, and at the Assyrian capital Nimrud (ancient Kalhu) in Iraq. As a student in London, he rediscovered the Epic of Atrahasis, …
- Graeme Davies
Sir Graeme Davies is a New Zealand engineer and academician. He is a former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Liverpool and the University of Glasgow and current Vice-Chancellor of the University of London, in the United Kingdom.
- John Garstang
John Garstang was a British archaeologist of the ancient Near East, especially Anatolia and the southern Levant. He was educated at Queen Elizabeth's, Blackburn; and Jesus College, Oxford. Following undergraduate studies in mathematics at Oxford, his attentions turned to archaeology. From 1897 to 1908 he conducted excavations at Roman sites in Britain, Egypt, Nubia, Asia Minor and North Syria; in the Sudan and Meroe between 1909 and 1914, …
- Geoff Parker
Professor Geoffrey Alan Parker FRS (born 24 May 1944) is a professor of biology at the University of Liverpool. He has a particular interest in behavioural ecology and evolutionary biology, and is most noted for introducing the concept of sperm competition in 1970, and his work in the 1970's and subsequently, applying game theory to biology. With R. R. Baker and V. G. F. Smith in 1972, he proposed a leading theory for the evolution of anisogamy and two sexes, …
- Carol Ann Duffy
Carol Ann Duffy (born December 23, 1955) is a British poet, playwright and freelance writer born in Glasgow, Scotland. She grew up in Staffordshire and graduated in philosophy from Liverpool University in 1977. Carol Ann Duffy was awarded an OBE in 1995, and a CBE in 2002. She now lives in Manchester with her daughter Ella (born 1995) whose father is the writer Peter Benson. She used to live with her partner, the poet Jackie Kay, but they split up in late 2004
- Melvyn Bragg
Melvyn Bragg, Baron Bragg, FRSL, FRTS (born 6 October 1939, in Wigton, Cumberland) is a British author and broadcaster
- Dennis Kavanagh
Dennis Kavanagh (born 27 March, 1941) is a British political analyst and since 1996 has been Professor of Politics at the University of Liverpool. He has written extensively on post-war British politics.
- Martyn Amos
Martyn Amos is a Senior Lecturer in Computing at Manchester Metropolitan University, and an expert on natural computation and DNA computing. He was born in Hexham, Northumberland in 1971. He graduated with a degree in Computer Science from Coventry University in 1993, before earning a Ph.D. in DNA computing in 1997, from the University of Warwick. He then held a Leverhulme Trust Special Research Fellowship at the University of Liverpool, …
- James Drummond Bone
Professor James Drummond Bone MA, FRSA is a British academic. He has been the Vice Chancellor of the University of Liverpool since 1 September 2002, and has recently announced that he will be retiring from that position in Spetember 2008. He is currently the President of Universities UK, and the chairman of the Liverpool Culture Company. Previously he was the Principal of Royal Holloway College and pro-vice-Chancellor of the University of London.
- Har Gobind Khorana
Har Gobind Khorana (born January 9, 1922) is an American molecular biologist born of Indian Punjabi heritage in British India. He was awarded the Nobel prize (shared with Robert W. Holley and Marshall Warren Nirenberg) in 1968 for his work on the interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1966.
- Richard Bentall
Richard Bentall (1956 -) holds a Chair in Experimental Clinical psychology at the University of Manchester, UK. Born in Sheffield, he attended the University College of North Wales, Bangor as an undergraduate before taking a Ph.D. in experimental psychology at the same institution.
- Patricia Routledge
Katherine Patricia Routledge CBE (born 17 February 1929) is a Tony Award-winning English actress who is best known to television audiences for her role of Hyacinth Bucket in the television comedy series "Keeping Up Appearances". Prior to "Keeping Up Appearances", Routledge had a prolific career in theatre, particularly in musical theatre in the UK and the US during the 1960s and 1970s. The honour of the OBE was bestowed upon her in 1993, and in 2004, …
- David Sadler
David Sadler is a professor and a researcher of human geography at the University of Liverpool, United Kingdom. Sadler gained his first degree, and a doctorate from Durham University, and has held academic posts at Durham, and the University of Wales, Lampeter, before becoming a professor at Liverpool. His research interests include the Geographies of labour and trade union organisation, spatial dimensions of European Union policies, …
- C. T. C. Wall
Charles Terence Clegg ("Terry") Wall (born 14 December 1936 in Bristol, England) is a leading British mathematician. He is an emeritus professor of the University of Liverpool. His early work was in cobordism theory in algebraic topology. His research was then mainly in the area of manifolds, particularly geometric topology and related abstract algebra included in surgery theory, of which he was one of the founders. His later work has been in singularity theory, …
- Michael Lavalette
Michael Lavalette (born 1962) is a national council member of Respect - The Unity Coalition and councillor in Preston, England. He was elected as a Socialist Alliance candidate shortly after the start of the Iraq War. He is also a member of the Socialist Workers Party, and a Senior lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Liverpool. Along with Chris Jones, Iain Feguson, and Laura Penketh, …
- Jon Snow
Jon Snow (born September 28, 1947) is a British television newscaster on "Channel 4 News", produced by ITN. He is the cousin of now-retired BBC television news presenter Peter Snow.
- Joseph Proudman
Professor Joseph Proudman (December 30, 1888 - June 26, 1975), CBE, FRS was a distinguished British mathematician and oceanographer of international repute. His theoretical studies into the oceanic tides not only "solved practically all the remaining tidal problems which are soluble within the framework of classical hydrodynamics and analytical mathematics" but laid the basis of a tidal prediction service (developed with A. T. Doodson) of great international importance.
- James George Frazer
Sir James George Frazer (January 1, 1854, Glasgow, Scotland - May 7, 1941), was a Scottish social anthropologist influential in the early stages of the modern studies of mythology and comparative religion.
- David Weatherall
David Weatherall is a British physician and researcher in molecular genetics, haematology, pathology and clinical medicine. His research concentrated on the genetics of the haemoglobinopathies and, in particular, a group of inherited haematological disorders known as the thalassemias that are associated with abnormalities in the production of globin (the protein component of haemoglobin).
- Rodney Robert Porter
Rodney Robert Porter (8 October 1917 - 7 September 1985) was an English biochemist. Born in Newton-le-Willows, St Helens, Lancashire, England, Rodney Robert Porter received his Bachelors of Sciences--with Honours--from the University of Liverpool in 1939 for Biochemistry, going on to receive his Ph. D. in the field from the University of Cambridge in 1948. He worked for the National Institute of Medical Research for eleven years (1949-1960) before joining St.
- Gavin Brown
Gavin Brown AO (27 February 1942) is a Scottish-born mathematician, and the current Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sydney. His academic career began at the University of Liverpool, where he became a senior lecturer in mathematics. He accepted the Chair of Pure Mathematics at the University of New South Wales in 1975 when he and his family emigrated to Australia.
- F. W. Walbank
Frank William Walbank, CBE (born December 10, 1909, Bingley, West Yorkshire) is a contemporary scholar of ancient history, particularly the history of Polybius. Walbank studied Classics at Peterhouse, Cambridge, and from 1951 to 1977 was Rathbone Professor of Ancient History and Classical Archaeology at the University of Liverpool; he is currently professor "emeritus" at Liverpool and an Honorary Fellow of Peterhouse.
- Paula Byrne
Paula Byrne is a British author and biographer most famous for her bestseller "Perdita: The Life of Mary Robinson". Her debut book was the highly-acclaimed study of Jane Austen, "Jane Austen and the Theatre", which was published in 2002 by HarperCollins. Byrne has a PhD from the University of Liverpool. Before becoming an author, she taught in a school, college and university.
- Jim Woodcock
Professor Jim C. P. Woodcock FRSA FBCS is a British computer scientist. Woocock gained his PhD from the University of Liverpool. Until 2001 he was Professor of Software Engineering at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory, where he was also a Fellow of Kellogg College. He then joined the University of Kent and is now based at the University of York. His research interests include: strong software engineering, Grand Challenge in dependable systems evolution, …
- Colin Clark
Colin Grant Clark (November 2, 1905 - September 4, 1989) was a British economist and statistician who worked in both the United Kingdom and Australia, and who pioneered the use of the gross national product ("GNP") as the basis for studying national economies. Colin Clark was born in London. He was educated at the Dragon School in Oxford, then at Winchester College, and from 1924 at Brasenose College, Oxford where he studied chemistry.
- Ian Kershaw
Professor Sir Ian Kershaw (born April 29 1943 in Oldham, Lancashire, England) is a British historian, noted for his biographies of Adolf Hitler. Educated at St Bede's College, Manchester, Liverpool and Oxford Universities, he was originally trained as a medievalist but turned to the study of German history in the 1970s.
- William Henry Duncan
William Henry Duncan (27 January, 1805 - 23 May,1863), also known as Doctor Duncan was an English Doctor who worked in Liverpool and was also Britain's first Chief Medical Officer. He was born in Liverpool, qualified as a Medical Doctor in Edinburgh, returning to Liverpool to work in General Practice. He was appointed Medical Officer of Health on 1st January 1847. He is buried in Westpark, Elgin.