- David Bates
Sir David Robert Bates, FRS (born 18 November 1916, died 5 January 1994) was an Irish mathematician and physicist. Born in Omagh, County Tyrone, he moved to Belfast with his family in 1925, attending the Royal Belfast Academical Institution. He enrolled with the Queen's University of Belfast in 1934. In 1939 he became a research student under Harrie Massey. - George Bain
Professor Sir George Sayers Bain, a Canadian by birth, was President and Vice-Chancellor of Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland from 1998 to 2004 - Michael Roberts
Michael Roberts (1908-1997) was a British historian specializing in the early modern period and particularly known for his studies of Swedish history. Roberts was born in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, England and educated at Brighton College. He taught at Rhodes University College in Grahamstown, South Africa from 1935, served in the army in East Africa during World War II and headed the British Council in Stockholm 1944-1946. - Liam Neeson
Liam Neeson , born in Ireland, studied to be a teacher before turning to acting. He received an Academy Award nomination for his work in Schindlers List , a Golden Globe nomination for Michael Collins , and a Tony Award nomination for Anna Christie . He has starred in numerous films including Star Wars: Episode 1The Phantom Menace; Nell; and Husbands and Wives . - Reg Empey
Sir Reginald Norman Morgan Empey (born October 26, 1947) is a Northern Ireland politician and a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for East Belfast. He was elected leader of Ulster Unionist Party on June 24, 2005, succeeding former First Minister of Northern Ireland, David Trimble. Empey attended Hillcrest Preparatory School, Belfast, and The Royal School, Armagh before graduating with an Economics degree from the Queen's University of Belfast. - Colin Campbell
Sir Colin Campbell, DL, FRSA, an academic lawyer, is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham, England and Her Majesty's First Commissioner of Judicial Appointments. Since 1988, when he was appointed as the country's youngest Vice-Chancellor at the age of 43, he has done much to expand the University of Nottingham and consolidate its position as one of the country's leading higher education institutions. - George J. Mitchell
George John Mitchell, GBE (born August 20, 1933) is a former Democratic Party politician and United States Senator from the state of Maine, and currently serves as Chairman of the global law firm DLA Piper US LLP and also as the Chancellor of the Queen's University of Belfast. He was the United States Senate Majority Leader from 1989 to 1995. He was also Chairman of The Walt Disney Company from March 2004 until January 2007. - Mark Durkan
Mark Henry Durkan (born 26 June 1960, Derry, Northern Ireland) is a nationalist politician in Northern Ireland and the leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP). - Conor Murphy
Conor Murphy is the Sinn Féin Member of Parliament for the Newry and Armagh constituency in Northern Ireland, which he represents as its MP and also as one of the Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly. Murphy refuses to take his seat in the British House of Commons in line with the abstentionist policy of Sinn Féin. Murphy lives in Camlough, County Armagh and was educated at St. Colman's College, Newry and at the Queen's University of Belfast (QUB), … - Alban Maginness
Councillor Alban Maginness is an elected member of Belfast City Council and an MLA for Belfast North. A Barrister by profession, Councillor Maginness was appointed to the Board of Belfast Harbour Commissioners in 2006. Councillor Maginness was the Chair of the Trust Port Review Committee and sits on the Corporate Governance & Audit Committee and the Property Committee. - Simon Callow
Simon Philip Hugh Callow, CBE (born June 15, 1949) is an English stage, film and television actor. He was born in Streatham, London, England to Neil Francis Callow (British) and Yvonne Mary Guise (French) and was raised in the Roman Catholic faith of his mother. He studied at the Queen's University of Belfast before giving up his degree course to go into acting at the Drama Centre, London. - Michael Grant
Michael Grant CBE (21 November 1914 - 4 October 2004) was an English classicist and numismatist. According to his obituary he was "one of the few classical historians to win respect from [both] academics and a lay readership". Immensely prolific, he wrote and edited more than 50 books of nonfiction and translation, covering topics from Roman coinage and the eruption of Vesuvius to the Gospels and Christ. - John Stewart Bell
John Stewart Bell (June 28 1928 - October 1 1990) was a physicist, and the originator of Bell's Theorem, one of the most important theorems in quantum physics. He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and graduated in experimental physics at the Queen's University of Belfast, in 1948. He went on to complete a PhD in Birmingham, specialising in nuclear physics and quantum field theory. His career began with the British Atomic Energy Agency, in Malvern, Britain, … - David Ford
David Ford is a Northern Ireland politician. He is a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly and has been leader of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland since 2001. He was born on 24 February, 1951 to mixed Northern Irish and Welsh parents and grew up in Orpington, Kent, England. Ford was educated at Warren Road Primary School, Orpington and Dulwich College, London. He spent summer holidays on his uncle's farm in Gortin, County Tyrone, … - Philip Hobsbaum
Philip Dennis Hobsbaum (29 June 1932-28 June 2005) was a British teacher, poet and critic. Hobsbaum was born into a Polish Jewish family in London, and brought up in Bradford, in Yorkshire. He read English at Downing College, Cambridge, where he was taught and heavily influenced by F. R. Leavis. After Cambridge, he worked as a school teacher in London from 1955 to 1959, when he moved to Sheffield to study for a PhD under William Empson. - Gordon Beveridge
Sir Gordon Beveridge BSc, ARCST(Glas), PhD(Edin), HonLLD(Dub, NUI), HonDSc (Ulster, Connecticut), MRIA, FEng, FIChemE, FRSA, CIMgt, (b.1933, St Andrews - d.1999, Bangor), was President and Vice-Chancellor, Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland from 1986 - 1997. - Jim Allister
James Hugh "Jim" Allister, QC (born April 2, 1953 in Crossgar, County Down) is a Northern Ireland unionist politician and barrister. He is a former member of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and was elected as a member of the European Parliament (succeeding Ian Paisley) in 2004. In the European Parliament, although an avowed Euro-sceptic, he is also a strong supporter of the Common Agricultural Policy. After attending Regent House Grammar School in Newtownards, … - Gareth Higgins
Dr Gareth Higgins is a writer living in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He is a graduate in sociology from Queen's University of Belfast (BA, PhD). He is a co-founder (in 1998) of the zero28 Project, a faith-based peace and justice initiative in Northern Ireland. He has written and spoken widely on religion and conflict, art and spirituality, postmodern theology and practice, and film, with his work appearing in The Independent, The Irish Times, Sojourners, … - Edward Bunting
Edward Bunting (1773-1843) was an Irish musician and folk song collector. Bunting was born in County Armagh. At the age of seven he was sent to study music at Drogheda and at eleven he was apprenticed to William Ware, organist at St. Anne's church in Belfast and lived with the family of Henry Joy McCracken. At nineteen he was engaged to transcribe music from oral-tradition harpists at the Belfast Harp Festival in 1792. - Peter Weir
Peter Weir MLA is a Northern Ireland unionist politician. A past chairman of the Young Unionists (the UUP Youth Wing), Weir is a barrister and graduate of the Queen's University of Belfast. He was elected to the Northern Ireland Peace Forum in 1996 for the constituency of North Down. Weir refused to support the Belfast Agreement of 1998. A leading critic of party leader David Trimble's policies, Weir was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly in the 1998 election. - John O'Donovan
John O'Donovan (25 July 1806-10 December 1861), from Atateemore, in the parish of Kilcolumb the Barony of Ida, County Kilkenny, and educated at Hunt's Academy, Waterford, is recognised as one of Ireland's greatest ever Irish scholars and first historic topographer. He was the fourth son of Edmond O'Donovan and Eleanor Hoberlin of Rochestown, she was of Cromwellian stock. His early career may have been inspired by his uncle Parick O'Donovan. - Frank Pantridge
James Francis "Frank" Pantridge, CBE was a physician and cardiologist from Northern Ireland who transformed emergency medicine and paramedic services with the invention of the portable defibrillator. He was educated at the Queen's University of Belfast, graduating in medicine in 1939. During World War II he served in the British Army and was awarded the Military Cross during the Fall of Singapore, when he became a prisoner of war. - Sylvia Hermon
Sylvia Hermon was educated at Dungannon High School for Girls, and Aberstwyth University, Wales, from where she graduated in 1977 with a first class honours degree in Law. After completing her Part II Solicitors' Qualifying Examinations in 1978 she took up a lecturing post at Queen's University Belfast in European, International and Constitutional law (1978-88). - Bernard Maclaverty
Bernard MacLaverty (born September 14, 1942 in Belfast) is a Northern Irish author. MacLaverty was educated at St Malachy's College and Queen's University of Belfast, and has written the novels "Cal", "Lamb","Grace Notes", which was shortlisted for the 1997 Booker Prize and "The Anatomy School". He has also written a short story called "A Time to Dance". "Cal" was adapted for the screen in 1984 starring Helen Mirren and John Lynch. - Austin Currie
Austin Currie (born 11 October 1939) is a former Irish politician, having been elected to the parliaments of both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Austin Currie was born in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland into a large Catholic family. He was educated in Dungannon, County Tyrone and at the Queen's University of Belfast. Between 1964 and 1972 he was elected as Stormont MP for east Tyrone. He became an active member in the Northern Ireland civil rights movement. - David Humphreys
David Humphreys MBE (born 10 September 1971 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) is an Irish rugby union footballer who plays fly-half for Ulster. He won 72 caps for Ireland. Humphreys was educated at Ballymena Academy, the Queen's University of Belfast and Oxford University. Humphreys has represented Ireland at A, U21 and schools levels and has also been capped for the Barbarians. He led the Ireland Schools' side to the Triple Crown back in 1992 when he was at Ballymena Academy. - Theodore Thomson Flynn
Theodore Thomson Flynn (11 October 1883 - 23 October 1968) was an Australian biologist and a professor in both Tasmania and Ireland. He was born in Coraki, New South Wales, Australia and died in Liss, Hampshire, England. He became a biology lecturer at the University of Tasmania in 1909, becoming professor in 1911 and teaching there until 1930. Flynn then relocated to Ireland where he served as the Chair of Zoology at Queen's University of Belfast from 1931-1948. - Margaret Mullett
Margaret Elizabeth Mullett OBE is Professor of Byzantine Studies and director of the Institute of Byzantine Studies at the Queen's University of Belfast and Director of the Queen's Gender Initiative. She is the author of "Theophylact of Ochrid: Reading the Letters of a Byzantine Archbishop", Variorum, 1997. Mullett was created an Officer of the British Empire (OBE) on 17 June 2006. - Graham Reid
Graham Reid (born 1945) is a teacher and playwright from Belfast, Northern Ireland. Born into a working class family, Reid married young, but returned to education and graduated from Queen's University in 1976. He became a teacher at Gransha Boys' High School in Bangor, County Down but left in 1980 to concentrate on his writing career. Characters in his work "The Hidden Curriculum" were based on pupils and teachers from the school he taught at. - Patrick Kielty
Patrick Kielty (born 31 January 1971) is an Irish television personality. He was born in Dundrum, County Down, Northern Ireland and raised a Roman Catholic. He was affected by the Troubles in Northern Ireland. His father, businessman Jack Kielty, was murdered by the Ulster Freedom Fighters, a loyalist paramilitary group. He had no ties to any republican militant group. Kielty formerly dated Amanda Byram, who has worked for the Irish TV channel TV3 and Channel 4 in the UK. - Paul Bew Baron Bew
Paul Anthony Elliott Bew, Baron Bew is professor of Irish politics at the Queen's University of Belfast, a position he has held since 1991. A native of Belfast, Professor Bew attended Campbell College, Belfast before studying for his Masters and PhD at Cambridge University. He was active in the Northern Ireland Civil Rights movement, and participated in the 1969 Belfast-Derry march which was attacked by loyalist protestors at Burntollet. - David Case
Air Commodore David Case is the highest ranking black officer in the Royal Air Force of the United Kingdom, and at the age of 47 is the highest ranking black officer ever to serve in Britain's armed forces. He was born in Guyana, and immigrated to Britain at the age of 5. He was educated at Beckenham Grammar School and learnt to fly on a Flying Scholarship while still at school. - Oliver Napier
Sir Oliver Napier (born July 11 1935) was the first leader of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland. In 1974 he served as Legal Minister and head of the Office of Legal Reform in the power-sharing executive set up by the Sunningdale Agreement. Napier was educated at St. Malachy's College, Belfast and the Queen's University of Belfast before serving as a solicitor. In 1970 he became a founding member of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland, … - William McCrea
Sir William Hunter McCrea (13 December 1904 - April 25 1999) was an Irish astronomer and mathematician. Born in Dublin on December 13, 1904, he attended Trinity College, Cambridge and was later appointed a lecturer of mathematics at the University of Edinburgh. He also served as reader and assistant professor at Imperial College London. In 1936 he became head of the mathematics department at the Queen's University of Belfast. - Denis Henry
Sir Denis Stanislaus Henry KBE, QC (7 March 1864 - 1 October 1925) was born in Cahore, Draperstown, County Londonderry, son of prosperous Catholic businessman. He was educated at Marist College, Dundalk; Mount St Mary's College, Chesterfield, a Jesuit foundation; and Queen's College, Belfast (QUB), where he won every law scholarship open to a student and many other prizes and exhibitions. In 1885, he was called to the Irish Bar. - Tim Patterson
R. Timothy Patterson, Ph.D., is a professor of geology, Department of Earth Sciences, Carleton University as well as Director of the Ottawa Geoscience Centre in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He is also a Senior Visiting Fellow in the School of Geography, Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland. He holds a B.Sc. in Biology, B.A. in Geology, both from Dalhousie University, Halifax, … - John Harold Hewitt
John Harold Hewitt (28 October 1907 - June 1987) who was born and lived in Belfast, Northern Ireland, was the most significant Ulster poet to emerge before the Sixties generation of Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon and Michael Longley. He was appointed the first writer-in-residence at the Queen's University of Belfast (QUB) in 1976. His collections include "The Day of the Corncrake" (1969) and "Out of My Time: Poems 1969 to 1974" (1974). - Peter Rice
Peter Rice (1935-1992) was an Irish structural engineer. Born in Dundalk County Louth, he was educated at the Queen's University of Belfast and Imperial College, London. Taken on by Ove Arup & Partners, his first job was the roof of the Sydney Opera House. Among the buildings on whose design he worked are the Centre Pompidou, the Sydney Opera House, Lloyd's of London, the Louvre Pyramid, the Mound Stand at Lord's Cricket Ground, … - Brian Mawhinney
Brian Stanley Mawhinney, Baron Mawhinney PC (born 26 July 1940) is a British politician. He was a member of the Cabinet until 1997 and a Member of Parliament until 2005. Mawhinney, from Northern Ireland, went to school at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and studied physics at the Queen's University of Belfast, gaining an upper second class degree in 1963. He obtained a Ph.D. in radiation physics at the Royal Free Hospital in London. - Lim Keng Yaik
Dato' Seri Dr. Lim Keng Yaik is a Malaysian politician and currently is the national president of Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia since 1980. He was born on April 8, 1939 in Perak. He graduated from The Queens University of Belfast with a "MB.BCh.BAO" in 1964. His previous portfolio was the Malaysian Minister of Primary Industries. He is currently the Malaysian Minister of Energy, Water and Telecommunications.
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