Recipients of the Honorary Freedom of the City of Liverpool

  • 7th July 1886 Lieut. General Sir Andrew Clarke GCMG CB CIE
  • 9th November 1889 Sir Andrew Barclay Walker Bt DL
  • 7th January 1891 William Cliff Esq. JP
  • 3rd June 1891 William Rathbone Esq. MP JP DL
  • 3rd June 1891 Henry Tate Esq. JP
  • 5th October 1892 The Rt. Hon. William Ewart Gladstone MP First Lord of the Treasury
  • 14th February 1894 Samuel Greg Rathbone Esq. JP
  • 27th October 1897 Alderman Thomas Hughes JP
  • 17th January 1900 John Brancker Esq. JP
  • 24th April 1901 Benn Wolfe Levy Esq.
  • 24th April 1901 Henry Yates Thomson Esq.
  • 24th April 1901 Field Marshal Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts Bart VC KG KP GCB OM GCSI GCIE KStJ VD PC
  • 4th June 1902 Alderman Sir William Bower Forwood, DL JP
  • 6th August 1902 General Viscount Kitchener, GCB OM GCMG
  • 3rd February 1904 The Right Hon. Frederick Arthur, Earl of Derby, KG
  • 3rd February 1904 Robert Durning Holt, Esq. JP DL
  • 3rd August 1911 Andrew Carnegie, Esq. LL.D
  • 3rd August 1911 Robert Gladstone, Esq. LL.D
  • 3rd July 1912 The Right Hon. Edward George Villiers, Earl of Derby, PC CB GCVO
  • 19th March 1016 The Right Hon. William Morris Hughes
  • 6th September 1916 Alderman Sir William Benjamin Bowring Bart JP
  • 6th June 1917 Alderman Sir Charles Petrie,JP
  • 4th December 1918 Admiral Sir David Beatty, GCB GCVO DSO Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Fleet
  • 4th December 1918 Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig, KT GCB GCVO KCIE Commander-in Chief of the British Armies in France
  • 7th December 1921 John Rankin, Esq. LL.D
  • 2nd September 1925 Alderman The Right Hon. Sir Archibald Tutton Salvidge, PC KBE
  • 24th September 1934 Alderman Sir Thomas White
  • 24th September 1934 Alderman Sir James Sexton, CBE
  • 24th September 1934 Councillor Sir Frederick Charles Bowring, DL
  • 1st May 1946 The Right Hon. Lord Woolton, PC CH DL
  • 1st May 1946 Admiral Sir Max Kennedy Horton, GCB DSO
  • 1st May 1946 Alderman Alfred Ernest Shennan, JP MA
  • 1st May 1946 Alderman Luke Hogan, MBE JP
  • 1st May 1946 Alderman Sir Charles Sydney Jones, JP MA LL.D
  • 25th February 1970 The Right Hon. The Lord Cohen of Birkenhead, MD FRCP (LOND) FRCS (ENG) DL
  • 25th February 1970 Major Sir Arthur Harold Bibby, Bart DSO
  • 25th February 1970 Alderman Sir Joseph Jackson Cleary
  • 25th February 1970 Sir Alan Cecil Tod, CBE TD
  • 25th February 1970 Mrs Elizabeth Margaret Braddock, MP
  • 25th February 1970 Mr John Moores
  • 27th July 1983 Mr Robert Paisley, OBE
  • 7th March 1984 John Lennon
  • 7th March 1984 George Harrison, MBE
  • 7th March 1984 Sir Paul McCartney, MBE
  • 7th March 1984 Richard Starkey, MBE
  • 13th March 1991 Eric S Heffer, MP
  • 16th March 1994 John Moores, CBE DL
  • 6th July 1994 President Nelson Mandela
  • 24th August 1994 David Sheppard, The Rt. Reverend The Lord Bishop of Liverpool
  • 24th August 1994 Derek Worlock, The Most Rev The Archbishop of Liverpool
  • 24th August 1994 Roy Castle OBE
  • 31st January 2001 Ken Dodd OBE
  • 31st January 2001 Adrian Henri
  • 31st January 2001 Roger McGough OBE
  • 31st January 2001 Brian Patten
  • 31st January 2001 Sir Terry Leahy
  • 31st January 2001 Simon Weston OBE
  • 31st January 2001 Sir Simon Rattle KBE CBE
  • 11th June 2003 Professor E Rex Makin
  • 28th January 2009 Gerry Marsden MBE
  • 28th January 2009 Norah Button
  • 28th January 2009 Wally Brown CBE
  • 3rd March 2010 Professor Peter Toyne CBE
  • 18th January 2012 Stephen Yip MBE
  • 7th March 2012 The Right Hon. Lord Michael Heseltine Bart CH PC
  • 11th June 2014 Ricky Tomlinson
  • 25th May 2016 96 who went to a football match but never returned (Hillsborough)
  • 25th May 2016 The Right Reverend Bishop James Jones KBE
  • 25th May 2016 Kenneth Mathieson Dalglish MBE
  • 25th May 2016 Marina Dalglish MBE
  • 25th May 2016 Professor Phil Scraton
  • 18th January 2017 Tony McGann MBE
  • 18th January 2017 Steven Gerrard MBE
  • 18th July 2018 Sir Philip Redmond CBE
  • 14th November 2018 Jean-Luc Courcoult
  • 15th January 2020 The Right Reverend Thomas A. Williams
  • 4th March 2020 Colin McKeown MBE
  • 8th December 2021 Jimmy McGovern
  • 20th July Jürgen Klopp
  • 20th July Sue Johnston
  • 21st September Dame Lorna Muirhead DCVO DBE
  • 21st September Elkin Abrahamson