Notable Former Pupils
- For a full list, see Category:People educated at Liverpool Institute High School for Boys
| Name | Joined/left | Born/died | Known for |
| Francis Neilson-Butters | 1867–1961 | MP for the Hyde Division of Cheshire 1910–1916. Writer and historian. | |
| Sir Walter de Frece | 1870–1935 | Theatre impresario and MP | |
| Prof Alfred James Ewart | 1872–1937 | Professor of Botany and Plant Physiology in the University of Melbourne from 1906–21 | |
| Prof John Hay | 1873–1959 | former President of the Royal Microscopical Society, and former Professor of Medicine at the University of Liverpool | |
| Franklin Dyall | 1874–1950 | Actor | |
| Prof Charles Glover Barkla | 1877–1944 | Nobel Prize in Physics 1917 "for his discovery of the characteristic Röntgen radiation of the elements", Wheatstone Professor of Physics from 1909–13 at Kings College London, and discovered most properties of X-ray scattering, fluorescence, polarisation, and transmission through matter. | |
| Sydney Silverman | c. 1911–1915 | 1895–1968 | Labour MP from 1935–68 for Nelson and Colne. He brought in a private Member's Bill in 1965 to suspend the death penalty |
| James Laver | 1899–1975 | Art historian | |
| Arthur Askey | 1911–1916 | 1900–1982 | Comedian and broadcaster. |
| Sir Malcolm Knox | 1900–80 | Professor of Moral Philosophy from 1936–53 at the University of St Andrews, and Principal of the University from 1953–66 | |
| Sir Frank Francis | 1901–1988 | Director of the British Museum, 1959–1968 | |
| Lindley M. Fraser | 1904–63 | Jaffrey Professor of Political Economy from 1935–40 at the University of Aberdeen, Head of German and Austrian Services at the BBC from 1946–63 | |
| Frank Redington | 1906–84 | Head Boy 1925; Cambridge University (Wrangler); Chief Actuary of Prudential Insurance 1951–1968; Winner of the Gold Medal of the Institute of Actuaries in honour of "actuarial work of pre-eminent importance". | |
| Prof William Kneale | 1906–90 | White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford, 1960–6. Author of Probability and Induction | |
| Alan Robertson | 1920–89 | Chemist. Animal breeding and genetics | |
| Alan Durband | 1938–1944 | 1927-93 | Pupil who returned as a teacher, one of the founders of the Liverpool Everyman Theatre and the New Shakespeare Theatre, Liverpool |
| Ronald Oxburgh, Baron Oxburgh | 1942–1952 | 1932– | Chair of Royal Dutch Shell PLC, 2003 to 2005. |
| Peter Sissons | 1953–1961 | 1942– | News broadcaster |
| Steve Norris | 1956–1963 | 1945– | MP for Oxford East,1983-1987; Epping Forest, 1988-1997. Conservative candidate for London Mayoralty, 2000 and 2004. |
| Bill Kenwright | 1957–1964 | 1945– | Theatre impresario |
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