List of people from Belfast

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Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

This is a list of notable people born, raised or resident in Belfast.

Arts

Brian Desmond Hurst in 1976 (portrait by Allan Warren)
John Lavery
Siobhan McKenna

Business

Law

  • Robert James McMordie
    , QC, Irish barrister, politician, and Lord Mayor of Belfast
  • Professor Denis Moloney OBE, solicitor

Media

  • Gerry Anderson (1944-2014), radio and TV presenter; born and raised in Derry
  • Christine Bleakley (born 1979), TV presenter; born in Newry; grew up in Newtownards
  • Andrea Catherwood (born 1967), newsreader; born and raised in Belfast
  • Eamonn Holmes (born 1959), television presenter; born and raised in Belfast
  • John Irvine, broadcast journalist; born and raised in Belfast
  • Shauna Lowry (born 1970), television presenter; born and raised in Belfast
  • Abeer Macintyre (born 1964), television and radio presenter; born in Amman and moved to Belfast in 1969
  • Lyra McKee (1990-2019), journalist; born and raised in Belfast
  • Colin Murray (born 1977), radio DJ and journalist; born and raised in Belfast
  • Denis Murray (born 1951), broadcast journalist; born in Worcestershire and raised in Belfast
  • Bill Neely (born 1959), broadcast journalist; born and raised in Belfast
  • Stephen Nolan (born 1973), radio and TV presenter DJ; born and raised in Belfast
  • Julian Simmons (born 1952), UTV, TV presenter and public figure; born in Kent and raised in Belfast
  • Fionnuala Sweeney, CNN presenter and reporter; born and raised in Belfast

Military

Politics

Chaim Herzog
David Trimble

Religious

Science

  • Thomas Andrews (1813-1885), chemist and physicist
  • Isobel Agnes Arbuthnot 1870–1963), botanist and botanical collector based in South Africa
  • John Stewart Bell (1928-1990), physicist
  • Jocelyn Bell Burnell (born 1943), astronomer (discoverer of pulsars); born in Lurgan
  • Sidney Elisabeth Croskery (1901-1990), doctor;[4] born in Gortgranagh, Killinure, County Tyrone
  • John Boyd Dunlop (1840-1921), inventor and veterinary surgeon; born in Dreghorn, North Ayrshire, and studied to be a veterinary surgeon at the Dick Vet, University of Edinburgh, moving to Downpatrick, Ireland in 1867
  • George Crawford Hyndman (1796–1867), biologist
  • Charles Lanyon (1813-1889), architect; born in Eastbourne, Sussex; moved to Antrim in 1836 to become county surveyor until 1860; elected Mayor of Belfast in 1862
  • William Lewis (1885–1956), Professor of Physical Chemistry, Liverpool; propounded collision theory
  • William Thomson
    , 1st Baron Kelvin, OM, GCVO, PC, PRS, FRSE, (1824-1907), mathematical physicist, engineer, and leader in the physical sciences of the 19th century

Sport

Other

References

  1. ^ "Ian Masterson". Discogs. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  2. ^ "Paul Masterson". Discogs. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  3. guardian.co.uk, London: Guardian Media Group
    , 17 December 2010, retrieved 13 January 2011
  4. ^ "Glasgow 2014 - Alanna Audley-Murphy Profile". g2014results.thecgf.com. Retrieved 24 October 2020.

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