List of Queen's University Belfast people
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This is a list of notable alumni and staff of Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland:
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[edit] Staff
- Professor Mike Baillie - Professor Emiritus of Palaeoecology
- Professor Paul Bew - Professor of Irish Politics
- Professor Colin Cooper - Senior Lecturer in psychology, who devises IQ tests for the BBC's Test the Nation programme
- Professor Sir Bernard Crossland - Former President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers
- Professor Peter Gregson - President and Vice-Chancellor
- Professor Adrian Guelke - Professor of Comparative Politics
- Professor James Mallory - Professor in Prehistoric Archaeology
- Former United States Senator George Mitchell - Chancellor
[edit] Alumni
[edit] Academia
- Professor Tan Sri Datuk Anuwar Ali - Vice-Chancellor of Open University Malaysia
- Professor Dame Ingrid Allen - Professor Emeritus of Neutropathology
- Professor Sir David Bates - Prominent physicist
- Tan Sri Professor Chin Fung Kee - Former Vice-Chancellor of University of Malaya and Professor of Civil Engineering
- Datuk Rafiah Salim - Vice-Chancellor of University of Malaya and former Assistant Secretary General for the United Nations (UN) Human Resource Management
- Professor Roy Crawford -Vice-Chancellor of University of Waikato, New Zealand
- David B Quinn - Historian
- Professor Sir Colin Campbell - Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham
[edit] Arts and Media
- Seamus Heaney - Nobel Prize winning poet.
- Simon Callow - actor and writer
- Stephen Rea - Actor
- Eamonn McCann - Journalist and civil rights activist
- Liam Neeson - Actor
- Paul Muldoon - Pulitzer Prize winning poet.
- Alexander Walker - Journalist, author and film critic
- Nick Ross - Broadcaster
- Zöe Salmon - Television presenter
- Annie Mac - Radio DJ
- Maclean Stewart - Actor
- Kieran Goss - Singer / Songwriter
[edit] Science
- John S. Bell - Physicist and developer of Bell's Theorem, regarded by some in the quantum physics community as one of the most important theorems of the 20th century
- John Edward Campbell - Mathematician, academic and co-developer of the Baker-Campbell-Hausdorff formula
- Henrik Kacser - Biochemist and geneticist
- H Douglas Keith - Polymer research scientist
- Professor Frank Pantridge - Inventor of the portable defibrillator
[edit] Legal, Military and Political
- Lord Alderdice - Former Leader of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland, former Presiding Officer of the Northern Ireland Assembly and Consultant Psychotherapist.
- Air Commodore David Case - British Armed Forces' most senior black officer.
- Colonel Tim Collins - Former Colonel in the British Army. Famous for his inspirational speech during the Iraq War in 2003.
- Sir Reg Empey - Leader of the Ulster Unionist Party
- Sir Ronnie Flanagan - Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary, Former Chief Constable of Police Service of Northern Ireland and Royal Ulster Constabulary.
- Lord Hutton - Former British Law Lord and Chair of the Hutton Inquiry.
- Paul Kernaghan - Chief Constable of Hampshire Constabulary.
- Dato' Seri Lim Keng Yaik - Energy Minister of Malaysia
- Joseph Henry Longford - British consul in Japan and academic
- Lord MacDermott - Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland
- Lord Mawhinney - Former MP and Chairman of the Conservative Party (UK).
- Lord MacNaghten - Former British Law Lord and politician
- Mary McAleese - The current President of Ireland
- Sir Andrew Porter - Master of the Rolls and Attorney General for Ireland.
- Tan Sri Dato' Seri Diraja Ramli Ngah Talib - Speaker of the Malaysian Parliament
- John P Savage - Premier of Nova Scotia
- Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah - Former Minister of Finance of Malaysia
- David Trimble - Former First Minister of Northern Ireland and Nobel Peace Prize winner.
