Henry Booth (1788–1869): inventor, founder and treasurer of the first steam railway conducting both scheduled passenger service and freight (Broad Green railway station, opened in 1830 is the oldest operating station and Lime Street railway station is the first Grand Terminus Mainline train station in the world
John Alexander Brodie (1858–1934): engineer of the Queensway Tunnel, then the longest underwater road tunnel, also invented goal nets for football matches
Josephine Butler (1828–1906): social reformer of women's rights, women's suffrage leader Millicent Fawcett hailed her as "the most distinguished Englishwoman of the nineteenth century", lived in Liverpool 1866–1882
Dame Jean Davies (1909–1996): director of the Women's Royal Naval Service and the fight against German U-boatU-534 in the Battle of the Atlantic - this victory paved the way for over 1.2 million United States soldiers pass through Liverpool during World War II - this figure represents a significant portion of the approximate 4.7 million troops who used the port to prepare for the invasion of Europe
Robbie Davies Jr.: boxer, former British, Commonwealth, and European champion
Saul Davies: musician, best known as a member of the rock band James
Helen Forrester: author, wrote about her childhood from privileged child to slum kid in Liverpool in the 1930s (including Tuppence to Cross the Mersey)
Leslie Gossage: Royal Air Force commander-in-chief during WWII, generally credited with playing a crucial role in defending Britain against aerial attack - in terms of loss of life and damage the Liverpool Blitz was second only to that of London, 4000 lost their lives in Merseyside
Bill Harry (born 1938): creator of Mersey Beat, an important newspaper of the early 1960s focused on the Liverpool music scene - author of 25 books[43]
Sir Oliver Lodge (1851–1940): first professor of physics at University College Liverpool, pioneer in the science and technology that led to the development of radio
David MacIver (1840–1907): shipping magnate, pioneer of transatlantic shipping, D&C MacIver was closely associated with Sir Samuel Cunard in the formation of the Cunard Line
Freddie Mercury (1946–1991, born Farrokh Bulsara): singer-songwriter, born Zanzibar and moved to England in 1964, in 1969 lived in Penny Lane, Liverpool, playing in the band Ibex, Liverpool radio broadcaster Kenny Everett was an advisor and mentor to Mercury
Dick Molyneux: football manager, in 1891 Everton F.C. was the first club to lift the league championship trophy at Anfield, it was the first season where nets, penalty kicks and the trophy were used
J. B. Ranson (1860–1935): captain of the RMS Baltic which rescued 1700 passengers and crew from the RMS Republic - this was the first marine rescue made possible by radio - it brought worldwide attention to the new technology
Martyn S. Williams: mountain and wilderness guide, first person to lead expeditions to the three extremes, South Pole (1989), North Pole (1992) and Everest (1991)
↑ Above the Trenches: A Complete Record of the Fighter Aces and Units of the British Empire Air Forces 1915–1920. Christopher F. Shores, Norman L. R. Franks, Russell Guest. Grub Street, 1990. ISBN0-948817-19-4, ISBN978-0-948817-19-9, pp. 169–170.
↑ Rees, Dafydd & Crampton Luke, Rock Movers & Shakers: An A-Z of People Who Made Rock Happen. ABC-CLIO, 1991. ISBN0-87436-661-5, ISBN978-0-87436-661-7. Pete Wylie (b. Mar. 22, 1958, Liverpool)
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