Notable Former Pupils
See also: Category:People educated at Wirral Grammar School for Boys- Harold Wilson - Labour Prime Minister 1964-70 and 1974-6 (only attended the sixth form in 1932 to 1934, having previously been a pupil at Royds Hall School in Huddersfield)
- Air Vice-Marshal John Beddoes CB, Station Commander from 1969-71 of RAF Laarbruch
- Peter Black (Welsh politician), Lib Dem member of the Welsh Assembly for South Wales West since 1999
- Christopher Burstall, BBC Omnibus documentary producer
- Alex Cox - film director
- Dr Keith Dumbell, Professor of Virology from 1964-81 at St Mary's Hospital Medical School, and world expert on smallpox
- John Ebbrell - former football player for Everton F.C. as a midfielder
- Prof Brian Edwards CBE, Professor of Health Care Development from 1996-2002 at the University of Sheffield
- Michael Elliott OBE, International Editor of Time magazine since 2005 and Editor from 1993-8 of Newsweek International
- Peter Gibbons, British Airways (GB Airways) youngest ever aircraft captain at the age of 25 (attended c. 1991-8), and now flying with easyJet
- Kenneth Halliwell - writer and also mentor, lover and the eventual murderer of playwright Joe Orton
- Prof Chris Haslett OBE, Professor of Respiratory Medicine since 1990 at the University of Edinburgh
- Michael Hughes, German historian
- Prof Steve Jones - Professor of Genetics since 1992 at the Galton Laboratory of University College London, and author who wrote The Language of the Genes
- Prof Bernard Elgey Leake, geologist, Professor of Geology from 1974-97 at the University of Glasgow, and President from 1986-88 of the Geological Society of London
- Ted Robbins - comedian and actor
- Anthony Peake - writer and broadcaster
- Prof Brian Rowlands, Professor of Gastrointestinal Surgery since 1997 at the Queen's Medical Centre, University of Nottingham, and President from 2007-8 of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland (ASGBI)
- Ted Rowlands, Baron Rowlands CBE, Labour MP for Cardiff North from 1966–70, for Merthyr Tydfil from 1972–83, and for Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney from 1983–2001, and served as a Foreign Office junior minister in Harold Wilson's government
- Sir Brian Smith, Vice-Chancellor from 1993-2001 of Cardiff University
- Michael Unger, Editor from 1977-82 of the Liverpool Daily Post, from 1982-3 of the Liverpool Echo, and from 1983-97 of the Manchester Evening News
- Paul Usher - actor
- Air Commodore Bob Weighill CBE DFC, Station Commander from 1961-4 of RAF Cottesmore and RAF Halton from 1968–73. England rugby union international player and captain, secretary of the Rugby Football Union from 1974 to 1986
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