Quarry Bank High School for Boys •
John Ashton, academic in public health, Regional Director of Public Health for North-West England • Rt. Rev.
Jonathan Bailey,
Bishop of Derby from 1995 to 2005 •
Clive Barker, film writer, director and producer (
Hellraiser,
Candyman), books (
Weaveworld,
The Hellbound Heart), comic books (
Razorline) and video games (''
Clive Barker's Undying, Clive Barker's Jericho'') •
Brian Barwick, chief executive of
the Football Association from 2005 to 2008 •
David Basnett, trade union leader •
Michael Batty, Bartlett Professor of Planning at University College London •
Stephen Bayley, architecture writer and chief executive of the
Design Museum from 1986 to 1989 • Edmund (Ted) Bellamy, professor of Physics at
Westfield College, London from 1960 to 1984 •
Doug Bradley, actor, who played the 'Pinhead' character in
Hellraiser •
Peter Cheeseman, theatre director, pioneer of
theatre-in-the-round and documentary drama •
Steve Coppell, footballer and football manager •
Les Dennis, comedian and TV personality •
Alan Deyermond, professor of Spanish at
Queen Mary and Westfield College, London from 1969 to 1997 •
Peter Goldsmith (Lord Goldsmith of Allerton), who was appointed as the Labour government's
Attorney General in 2001 •
John Lennon, rock musician, singer/songwriter, author and peace activist, and one of the founding members of
The Beatles (Lennon named his first band
The Quarrymen, after the school's original name) •
John Lewis, archdeacon of North-West Europe from 1982 to 1993 •
Derek Nimmo, actor • Sir
Daniel Pettit, Olympic sportsman and industrialist •
Joe Royle, footballer and football manager •
Labour cabinet ministers Peter Shore and
Bill Rodgers, who adopted the name "Quarry Bank" as part of his baronial title •
Leo Skeete, footballer in the 1970s and 1980s • Sir
James Stirling, architect
Calder High School for Girls •
Margaret Ursula Jones, archaeologist •
Judith Kelly, artistic director of London's
Southbank Centre and Master of
St Catherine's College, Oxford from 2025 •
May Maple (1914–2012), electrical engineer, president of the
Women's Engineering Society •
Diana Walford,
haematologist and Principal of
Mansfield College, Oxford from 2002 to 2011
Aigburth Vale High School for Girls •
Kate Ellis, crime fiction author •
Bel Mooney (briefly), journalist •
Elisabeth Sladen, actress (
Doctor Who,
The Sarah Jane Adventures)
Quarry Bank Comprehensive School •
Susan Bickley, mezzo-soprano and opera singer •
Guy Chambers (Sixth Form), songwriter •
Andy Merrifield, urban theorist •
John Power, former member of the band
the La's and founding member of
Cast Calderstones School • Marcus Holden, international rugby player,
Cyprus Rugby National Team •
Geoff Rowley, skateboarder, co-owner of
Flip Skateboards • "Zombina" and "Doc Horror", musicians in
Zombina and the Skeletones ==References==