List of people from Belfast

The following list contains people who were born in Belfast and those who temporarily lived and worked, each listed chronologically by year of birth. The list is not exhaustive.

Born in Belfast personalities

To 1800

• Elizabeth Hamilton (1756-1816), poet, writer and satirist
• Charles Telfair ( 1777/78-1833 ), Irish- Mauritian physician and botanist
• Henry Pottinger (1789-1856), soldier and colonial administrator
• James Barry (1795-1865), physician
• Alexander McDonnell (1798-1835), chess master

1801-1850

• Thomas Andrews (1813-1885), Irish physicist and chemist
• Frederick Seymour (1820-1869), colonial administrator
• James Thomson (1822-1892), Irish engineer, physicist and inventor
• William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin ( 1824-1907 ), Physicist
• Frederick Dobson Middleton (1825-1898), General
• James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce ( 1838-1922 ), lawyer, historian and politician
• Osborne Reynolds (1842-1912), Physicist

1851-1900

• William Mulholland (1855-1935), a hydraulic engineer
• John Lavery (1856-1941), Irish portraitist and landscape painter
• Augustus Edward Dixon (1861-1946), Irish chemist
• James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon ​​( 1871-1940 ), Unionist
• Alfred Robb (1873-1936), English physicist
• Henry Dunlop (1876-1931), Arctic explorer (1895-1986)
• Una O'Connor (1880-1959), Irish actress
• Robert Foster Kennedy (1884-1952), Irish-American neurologist
• Joseph Connolly (1885-1961), Irish politician
• Benjamin Glazer (1887-1956), screenwriter, producer and director
• Seán MacEntee (1889-1984), Irish politician
• Elisha Scott (1894-1959), football goalkeeper and coach
• Brian Desmond Hurst (1895-1986), Irish film director
• CS Lewis (1898-1963), Irish author and literary scholar

1901-1950

• Terence Ingold (1905-2010), mycologist
• William MacQuitty (1905-2004), Irish film producer and author
• James Moody (1907-1995), Irish silent film accompanist and composer
• Louis MacNeice (1907-1963), Northern Irish- British poet and prose writer
• Howard Ferguson (1908-1999), Irish composer
• Walter Rusk (1910-1940), motorcycle racer
• Herbert Kirk (1912-2006), politician
• William Conway (1913-1977), Archbishop of Armagh
• Harry McKibbin (1915-2001), Irish rugby union player
• John Herivel (1918-2011), historian and cryptanalyst
• Chaim Herzog (1918-1997), President of Israel
• Joe Cahill (1920-2004), member of the Irish Republican Army
• Elizabeth Shaw (1920-1992), Irish graphic designer and children's book author
• Brian Moore (1921-1999), Irish- Canadian writer and screenwriter
• Billy McKee (* 1922), founding member and leader of the Provisional Irish Republican Army
• Siobhán McKenna (1923-1986), Irish film and theater actress
• Charlie Tully (1924-1971), football player
• Cecil Walker (1924-2007), politician
• Sammy Smyth ( born 1925 ), football player
• Danny Blanchflower (1926-1993), football player, coach, and sports journalist
• Jack Kyle ( b. 1926 ), rugby union player
• Alf McMichael (1927-2006), football player and coach
• John Stewart Bell (1928-1990), Physicist
• James White (1928-1999), Irish science fiction author
• Heather Harper ( born 1930 ), soprano
• Terry Milligan (1930-2008), Irish boxer
• Billy Bingham ( born 1931 ), football player and coach
• James Greene ( born 1931 ), film and theater actor and radio speaker
• John Morrow (1931-2009), pastor
• Bob Shaw (1931-1996), writer
• Dick Keith (1933-1967), football player
• Gusty Spence (1933-2011), an extremist
• Ronnie Carroll ( born 1934 ), singer and politician
• Eileen Paisley ( born 1934 ), politician
• Derek Bell (1935-2002), Irish musician
• Ruby Murray (1935-1996), pop singer
• Leonard Steinberg, Baron Steinberg (1936-2009), politician
• May Blood, Baroness Blood ( * 1938 ), politician
• Derek Dougan (1938-2007), Irish football player
• James Galway ( b. 1939 ), flautist
• Michael Longley ( b. 1939 ), poet
• Paddy McGuigan (1939-2014), folk singer and musician
• George McWhirter ( b. 1939 ), Canadian writer, translator and university teacher
• Billy Reid (1939-1971), Volunteer of the 3rd Battalion of the " Belfast Brigade"
• Brian Mawhinney (* 1940), politician
• Derek Mahon ( born 1941 ), poet
• Stewart Parker (1941-1988), poet and playwright
• Martin Waddell ( born 1941 ), writer
• Ralph Bryans ( b. 1942 ), motorcycle racer
• George Henry Cassidy ( born 1942 ), Anglican theologian
• Bernard MacLaverty ( b. 1942 ), author
• Terry Neill ( b. 1942 ), football player and coach
• Tony Banks (1943-2006), politician
• Jocelyn Bell Burnell ( born 1943 ), radio astronomer
• Betty Williams ( born 1943 ), peace activist
• Jim Armstrong ( born 1944 ), rock and blues guitarist
• Mairead Corrigan ( born 1944 ), co-founder of the Community of Peace People
• Patricia Quinn ( born 1944 ), actress and singer
• Shaw Clifton ( born 1945 ), head of the Salvation Army
• Damien Magee ( born 1945 ), race car driver
• David McWilliams (1945-2002), musician
• Van Morrison (born 1945), musician, singer and composer
• George Best (1946-2005), football player
• Ernie Graham (1946-2001), singer and guitarist
• Stephen Rea ( born 1946 ), Irish actor
• Freddie Scappaticci ( born 1946 ), member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army
• John Watson ( born 1946 ), race car driver
• Wallace Browne, Baron Browne of Belmont (* 1947), politician
• Gerry Adams ( b. 1948 ), politician
• William M. Anderson ( born 1948 ), editor
• Ciarán Carson ( b. 1948 ), writer
• Samuel Patterson ( born 1948 ), mathematician
• Peter Robinson ( born 1948 ), politician
• Pat Sheehan ( born 1948 ), member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army
• Nuala Ahern ( b. 1949 ), Irish politician
• Alex Higgins (1949-2010), snooker player
• Pat Rice ( b. 1949 ), football player and coach
• Iris Robinson ( b. 1949 ), politician
• Paul Bew ( born 1950 ), historian and politician
• Denis Donaldson (1950-2006), member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army organizations and Sinn Féin

1951

• Bernard Fox ( born 1951 ), member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army
• Mary McAleese ( born 1951 ), Irish journalist and State President ( Éire, 1997-2011 )
• Gerry McAvoy ( born 1951 ), companion of the Irish guitar virtuoso Rory Gallagher
• David McCalden (1951-1990), right-wing politicians
• Joe McDonnell (1951-1981), member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army
• Wallace Arthur ( born 1952 ), zoologist
• Terry George ( born 1952 ), director and screenwriter
• Alex Maskey ( born 1952 ), politician
• Gary Moore (1952-2011), rock and blues guitarist, composer and singer
• David Ervine (1953-2007), politician
• Ciarán Hinds ( born 1953 ), actor
• Alister McGrath ( born 1953 ), professor of theology
• Danny Morrison (born 1953), journalist and writer
• Philip Russell ( b. 1953 ), Physicist
• Bobby Sands (1954-1981), member of the IRA
• Brid Brennan ( born 1955 ), Irish- British actress
• Kieran Doherty (1955-1981), member of the IRA
• Jackie McMullan ( b. 1955 ), a volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army
• Bill McCabe ( b. 1956 /57), Irish entrepreneurs
• Mairéad Farrell (1957-1988), an activist in the Irish Republican Army
• David McCreery ( b. 1957 ), football player and coach
• Bob Bell ( b. 1958 ), engineer and manager
• Dave Finlay (born 1958 ), wrestler and wrestling coach
• Kate Thompson ( born 1959 ), Irish writer
• Kenneth Branagh ( born 1960 ), actor and director
• James McCaffrey ( b. 1960 ), American actor
• Arlene McCarthy ( b. 1960 ), politician
• Alan McDonald (1963-2012), football player and coach
• Martin Donnelly (born 1964 ), race car driver
• Jeremy McWilliams (born 1964 ), motorcycle racer
• Ian Wilson, (born 1964 ), composer
• Robert McLiam Wilson (born 1964 ), writer
• Andy Black (born 1965 ), Poker Players
• Robert Ehrlich (born 1965 ), an ethnomusicologist and recorder player
• Michael Moore (born 1965 ), politician
• Fionnuala Sweeney (born 1965 ), Irish television presenter and reporter
• Norman Whiteside (born 1965 ), football player
• Martin Galway (born 1966 ), composer
• Cathy Kelly (born 1966 ), Irish writer and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador
• Brian Kennedy ( b. 1966 ), singer and author
• John McCrea (born 1966 ), cartoonist
• Derek Porter ( born 1967), rower
• James Brown ( The King ) ( b. 1968 ), British singer
• Zara Turner ( born 1968 ), actress
• David Holmes (born 1969 ), musician and film music composer
• Geraldine O'Rawe (born 1969 ), actress
• Joe Swail (born 1969 ), snooker player
• Shane Brolly (born 1970 ), actor
• Wayne McCullough (born 1970 ), boxer
• Steve Morrow (born 1970 ), football player and coach
• Eva -Maria Westbroek (born 1970 ), Dutch opera singer
• David Humphreys (born 1971 ), Irish rugby union player
• Eamonn Magee (born 1971 ), professional boxer
• Owen Nolan (born 1972 ), Canadian ice hockey player
• Michael Hutchinson (born 1973 ), cyclist
• David McCann (born 1973 ), Irish road racing cyclist
• Kevin McGarrity (born 1973 ), race car driver
• Michael Creagh (born 1973 /74), filmmaker
• Roy Essandoh (born 1976 ), football player
• Damian O'Hare ( b. 1977 ), Irish film and theater actor
• Michael Duff (born 1978 ), football player
• Jupiter Ace ( b. 1980 /81), DJ
• George McCartney ( born 1981 ), football player
• Simon Patterson (* 1981), DJ and trance producer
• Graeme Walton ( born 1981 ), British- Irish ice hockey player
• Kiera Chaplin ( b. 1982 ), model and actress
• Jamie Dornan ( b. 1982 ), Irish- British actor, model and musician
• Eamon O'Kane ( b. 1982 ), Irish boxer
• Chris Brunt ( born 1984 ), football player
• Colin Coates ( born 1985 ), football player
• Paddy Barnes (* 1987), Irish boxer
• Tony Kane ( * 1987), football player
• Jonny Evans ( * 1988), football player
• John Travers ( * 1989), actor
• Liam Boyce (* 1991), football player

Individuals with regard to Belfast

• Joan Lingard ( born 1932 ), Scottish children 's and teen book author
• Katie Melua ( born 1984 ), singer, lived from 1993 to 1997 in Belfast

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