- Jamie Carragher
James Carragher (born January 28, 1978 in Bootle, Merseyside) is an English international footballer playing his club football at Liverpool where he is at present vice-captain, behind teammate and fellow Liverpudlian Steven Gerrard. His determination and attitude on the pitch, his humble nature off it and his professionalism has forever endeared him to the Liverpool faithful. This was proved when he was voted 7th in liverpoolfc.tv's "100 Players Who Shook The Kop", … - Mark Hughes
Mark Anthony Hughes (born December 9, 1986 in Liverpool, England) is an English footballer, currently playing for Northampton Town. Born in Merseyside, he joined Everton the age of seven and progressed to the rank of reserve team captain. Although he plays as a central defender, he is very capable of being a regular goal scorer, both from the penalty spot and in open play. - Joey Barton
Joseph Anthony Barton (born 2 September 1982 in Liverpool, Merseyside), commonly known as Joey Barton, is an English football (soccer) player. He currently plays for the English club Newcastle United, as a midfielder. Barton was raised in a rough area and as a child saw football as a form of escapism. He began his football career in 2001 with Manchester City after working his way through their youth system. He became a regular player for Man City, … - Lee Carsley
Lee Carsley is a professional football player for Everton, and who represents the Republic of Ireland internationally (his grandmother is from Dunmanway, Co.Cork). He was acquired by the Merseyside club for £1,950,000 from Coventry City in 2002. Prior to playing for Coventry, Carsley also played at Blackburn Rovers (top scorer for the club in 1999/2000) and Derby County. Carsley enjoyed mixed fortunes during his first two seasons at the club, … - Michael Jackson
Michael James Jackson (born 4 December 1973 in Liverpool, Merseyside) is an English professional football player currently playing for Blackpool, for whom he is club captain. He previously played for Crewe Alexandra, Bury, Preston North End and Tranmere Rovers. In June 2006, Jackson left Tranmere Rovers to join Blackpool. New Tranmere manager Ronnie Moore did not see a future for Jackson, and let him leave on a free. - Austin Healey
Austin Sean Healey (born 26 October, 1973 in Wallasey, Cheshire) is a former English rugby union footballer, who played as a utility back for Leicester Tigers, and has represented England and the British Lions. He has 51 England caps and 2 Lions caps. He has played for England at scrum half, fly-half, fullback and wing, and has often been used as a replacement (or substitute) because of his versatility. He is a famously competitive and "outspoken" character, … - Tony Hibbert
Tony Hibbert (born February 20, 1981 in Liverpool, brought up in Huyton, Merseyside) is an English footballer who currently plays as a defender for Everton. He is a life long Evertonian and it is the only team he has played for. Andrew Emmett MP, fellow Huytonite and childhood friend, recently suggested Hibbert would perhaps be an England international if he played for a more 'attractive' London club. - Pete Price
Pete Price (born Peter Price, 1946) is a radio personality on Merseyside, UK. He is best known for his Sunday night (10pm-2am) phone in show, "Unzipped", on Radio City 96.7 which is notorious for a plethora of prank calls. Some of these are arguably amusing. Many, however, become too intense for time on the air and are abruptly ended. Pete also presents a similar phone-in programme, Monday to Thursday (10pm -2am), … - Alan Stubbs
Alan Ross Farley Stubbs (born October 6, 1971 in Kirkby) is an English footballer who currently plays for Everton. He is an experienced central defender. His started his career at Bolton Wanderers, making almost 200 appearances for the club before moving to Celtic in May 1996. He won several medals with Celtic including the domestic treble and twice overcame testicular cancer. He joined Everton in July 2001. - Bill Kenwright
Bill Kenwright CBE (born 4 September, 1945, in Liverpool, Merseyside, England) is an actor and producer. He attended Booker Avenue County Primary School, and then Liverpool Institute High School 1957 to 1964 and appeared in school productions (including Shylock in Merchant of Venice) on the stage in the Mount St. building (predecessor to LIPA. He was also treasurer of the Christian Union at school. As a young man, he became an actor. - Michael Essien
Michael Essien (born December 3, 1982 in Accra) is a Ghanaian International footballer. He currently plays for Chelsea in the English Premier League. He is a central midfielder and plays as a deep-lying playmaker for the "Black Stars", the Ghana national football team. - Peter Reid
Peter Reid (born June 20, 1956 in Whiston, Knowsley, Lancashire (Now Merseyside) is an English former professional football player, manager and pundit. In his playing career Reid played for Bolton Wanderers, Everton and QPR, as well as representing his country, after which he managed Manchester City, Sunderland, Leeds and Coventry. He currently works as a TV pundit and as a football agent. - Phil Redmond
Phil Redmond CBE (born 1949 in Liverpool, brought up in Huyton, Merseyside) is an English television producer and scriptwriter. He is well-known for having created several popular television series such as "Grange Hill" (BBC One, 1978-present), "Brookside" (Channel 4, 1982-2003) and "Hollyoaks" (Channel 4, 1995-). For over twenty years he also ran his own independent production company, Mersey Television, before selling the company off in 2005. - Billy Fury
Originally from Wavertree in South Liverpool, Billy Fury was born on April 17, 1940, at Smithdown Hospital, now Sefton General Hospital, Smithdown Road, Liverpool, Merseyside. He was an internationally successful pop singer from the late 1950s to the early 1960s, and remained an active songwriter until the 1980s. He died on January 28, 1983 at St Mary Abbott's Hospital, Paddington, West London. - Peter Kilfoyle
Peter Kilfoyle (born on June 9, 1946 in Liverpool) is a UK politician. Eleventh of 14 children born to an Irish Catholic family in the Merseyside, he was educated by the Irish Christian Brothers at St. Edward's College in Liverpool; his father died when he was 10 years old. Obtaining 4 A-levels he went to Durham University, but left after a year, qualifying as a teacher at Christ's College in Liverpool. - Jack Hobbs
Jack Hobbs (born August 18, 1988 in Portsmouth) is a professional English football player, currently playing for Liverpool. From Moulton, a small village near Spalding, Lincolnshire, Hobbs played for Spalding Athletic from the age of 10. The former Spalding Grammar School student left Spalding Athletic a few years later when he joined the Lincoln City. At the age of just 16, Hobbs, a defender, … - James Bulger
James "Jamie" Patrick Bulger (16 March 1990 - 12 February 1993) was a two-year old toddler who was abducted and murdered by two 10 year-old boys, Jon Venables (born 8 August 1982) and Robert Thompson (born August 23, 1982), in Merseyside, England. The murder of a child by two other children caused an immense public outpouring of shock, outrage and grief, particularly in Liverpool and surrounding towns. - George Howarth
Rt Hon George Edward Howarth (born 29 June 1949) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He has been a Labour member of Parliament since a by-election in 1986, originally for Knowsley North until 1997, and for its replacement Knowsley North and Sefton East since then. Born on Merseyside, he was educated at the local Huyton Secondary School, the Kirkby College of Further Education, and the Liverpool Polytechnic. He went on to study at the University of Salford. - David Nugent
David James Nugent (born 2 May, 1985 in Huyton, Knowsley, Merseyside) is an English footballer who currently plays for Premier League club Portsmouth. - Nick Barmby
Nicholas Jonathan "Nick" Barmby (born February 11, 1974 in Hull, England) is an English footballer currently playing for Hull City, who has amassed a total of 23 caps for his country. Growing up on the west side of Hull, he played for local teams Springhead and National Tigers as a boy, showing huge talent from a very early age. Consequently, he ended his education at the local Kelvin High School early in order to complete his studies at the FA's School Of Excellence, … - Gabriel Paletta
Gabriel Alejandro Paletta (born February 15 1986, Buenos Aires) is an Argentinean central defender, who currently plays for Liverpool, only the second Argentine to play for the Merseyside club, after Mauricio Pellegrino. - Peter Clarke
Peter Clarke (born January 3 1982 in Southport, Merseyside) is a professional footballer. He started his career with Everton, where he gained England U21 honours, captained his country from U -16 to U-19 level and represented his club side in the Premiership a handful of times, largely at the unfamiliar position of right back (as opposed to his preferred centre-half position). - Michael Barton
Michael Barton, born 1988, is an English man from Huyton, Knowsley, Merseyside, who was found guilty of the July 2005 murder of Anthony Walker. He is the half-brother of Manchester City footballer Joey Barton. In what has been described as a race-hate crime, Barton, along with his cousin Paul Taylor, attacked Mr Walker, an 18-year-old of West Indian descent, near to McGoldrick Park in Liverpool. - Alan Bleasdale
Alan Bleasdale (born March 23, 1946 in Liverpool, Lancashire, England, brought up in Huyton) is an English television dramatist, best known for several social realist drama serials based on the lives of ordinary people. - John Murphy
John Murphy (born 18 October 1976 in Whiston, Merseyside) is an English professional footballer, currently playing for Chester City F.C. in his second spell with the club, having left first time round to join Blackpool in 1999. His previous club was Macclesfield Town, whom he joined from Blackpool in January 2007 after making a loan move permanent. On January 6, 2007, during his loan spell, … - Ray Stubbs
Ray Stubbs (born Wallasey, Merseyside, 1956) is a broadcaster and former footballer. He currently works for BBC Sport presenting Final Score as well as the coverage of snooker and darts. He occasionally presents Match of the Day, Match of the Day 2 and 6-0-6 on Five Live. Ray also presented Football Focus between from 1999 until 2004 as well as other BBC sports programmes such as Grandstand and Sportsnight. - Ryan Taylor
Ryan Anthony Taylor (born August 19, 1984 in Liverpool, England) is a Under 21 International with England. Taylor, a defender, currently plays for Premiership outfit, Wigan Athletic. "The Latics" acquired his services on 13 July 2005 from Wirral based club, Tranmere Rovers, for an undisclosed fee - beating off competition from Everton and Norwich City. Taylor signed a four-year contract which will see him at the JJB Stadium until 2009. - Patrick Trollope
Patrick Trollope BA (Hons) LBPPA comes from Merseyside area. He was born in Liverpool, England, in 1976 and is a well known Press Photographer on Merseyside. <br /><br /> Patrick Trollope is a member of the NUJ, has been working in the local media since 1995 and has built up an extensive photographic and reporting record, covering events for local and international press. - Ian Hart
Ian Hart (born 8 October, 1964) is an English actor. Hart was born in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, the grandson of Irish immigrants. One of three siblings, he was raised in a Catholic family and attended Cardinal Allen Grammar School (now called Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School) in Liverpool. Subsequently, he studied drama at Liverpool's Mabel Fletcher College of Music and Drama (now no longer existing). - Stephen Hesford
Stephen Hesford (born May 27, 1957) is a British politician and the Labour Member of Parliament for Wirral West. Stephen Hesford was born in Lowton St Mary's, near Leigh, Lancashire and was educated at the Urmston Grammar School and the University of Bradford where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in social sciences in 1978. He went on to study at the Polytechnic of Central London and earned his Master of Laws in 1980. - Mike Dean
Michael Leslie Dean (born June 2, 1968) is an English football referee in the FA Premier League based in Heswall, Wirral. - Ray Quinn
Raymond Arthur Quinn (born 25 August 1988 in Knowsley, Merseyside) is an English actor and singer. He currently lives in Childwall. Ray attended Chiltern Casting School in West Derby, Liverpool from a young age. A major influence in his early life was Suzanne Taylor, his singing coach. Due to his 'old soul' and the type of music Ray had become accustomed to, this led to him being unpopular and with few friends. - Terry McDermott
Terry McDermott (born December 8, 1951 in Kirkby, Merseyside) is a former football midfielder who played in the great Liverpool side of the 1970s and 1980s. - Les Dennis
Les Dennis (born Leslie Dennis Heseltine on October 12, 1954 in Liverpool, Lancashire) is an English television presenter and actor. Dennis married actress Amanda Holden in 1995, but the pair have since divorced (November 18, 2003). - David Mitchell
David Mitchell (born January, 1969) is an English novelist. He has written four novels, two of which were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. The latest, "Black Swan Green", was longlisted for the 2006 award. Mitchell was born in Southport, Merseyside, in England and educated at the University of Kent, studying for a degree in English and American Literature followed by an MA in Comparative Literature. He lived for a year in Sicily, then moved to Hiroshima, Japan, … - David Burrows
David Burrows (born Dudley, 25 October 1968) is a retired English footballer who played in the last Liverpool team to win the League championship in 1990. - Brian Simpson
Brian Simpson (born February 6, 1953 in Leigh) is a Member of the European Parliament for the Labour Party for North West England. He was a member of the European Parliament from 1989 until 2004 when he lost his seat at the 2004 European Parliamentary Elections. He returned to the European Parliament in September 2006 after the retirement of Terry Wynn, as he was next on the Labour party list. - Craig Short
Craig Jonathan Short (born June 25, 1968 in Bridlington, England) is a former football player who played as a central-defender. Along with his brother Chris, he started his professional career at Pickering Town in the 1986-87 season. In October the following year they moved to Scarborough together, and in June 1989, Notts County together. However, as his brother was dogged by injury, Craig managed to ascend to greater things. - Barry Horne
Barry Horne (born April 18 1963, St Asaph, UK) is a Welsh former professional footballer and former chairman of the Professional Footballers Association. In his career Horne played for Wrexham, Portsmouth, Southampton, Everton, Birmingham City, Huddersfield Town, Sheffield Wednesday, Kidderminster, Walsall and Belper Town. He captained the Welsh national team and won the FA Cup in 1995 whilst playing for Everton. - David Hanson
David George Hanson PC (born July 5, 1957) British politician. He is the Labour Member of Parliament for Delyn and is the Minister of State for Justice. David Hanson was born in Liverpool, Merseyside, the son of a forklift truck driver, and was educated at the Verdin Comprehensive School, Winsford, Cheshire and the University of Hull where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1978 and a certificate in education in 1980, …
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