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. As one of only two universities in Northern Ireland, the university has been attended by a large proportion of the nation's professionals. This page does not include people whose only connection with the university consists in the award of an honorary degree.
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[edit] Staff
- Professor Mike Baillie - Professor Emiritus of Palaeoecology
- Professor Sir George Bain - Former President and Vice-Chancellor and Chair of the Independent Review of the Fire Service
- Professor Paul Bew, Baron Bew - Professor of Irish Politics
- Professor Ciarán Carson - poet, novelist and Professor of English and Director of the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry
- 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 Richard English - Professor of Politics
- Mick Fealty - Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Governance
- Professor Peter Gregson - President and Vice-Chancellor
- Professor Adrian Guelke - Professor of Comparative Politics
- John Hewitt - the university's first writer-in-residence
- Professor Adrian Long - Former President of the Institution of Civil Engineers
- Professor James Mallory - Professor in Prehistoric Archaeology
- Professor Michael Mann - Visiting Research Professor in Sociology
- Professor John McCanny - Professor of Microelectronics Engineering, Head of School and Director of ECIT
- Former United States Senator George Mitchell - Chancellor
- Professor John H. Whyte - former Professor of Political Science
[edit] Alumni
[edit] Academia
- Professor Tan Sri Datuk Anuwar Ali - Vice-Chancellor of Open University Malaysia
- Professor Dame Ingrid Allen - Professor Emerita of Neutropathology
- Professor Sir David Bates - Prominent physicist
- Professor Sir Colin Campbell - Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham
- Professor Art Cosgrove - former President of University College Dublin
- Professor Roy Crawford -Vice-Chancellor of University of Waikato, New Zealand
- Tan Sri Professor Chin Fung Kee - Former Vice-Chancellor of University of Malaya and Professor of Civil Engineering
- David Beers Quinn - Author and historian
- Datuk Rafiah Salim - Vice-Chancellor of University of Malaya and former Assistant Secretary General for the [[United Nations|United Nations Human Resource Management
[edit] Arts and media
- Simon Callow - actor and writer
- Edwin Lawrence Godkin - American publicist
- Kieran Goss - singer/songwriter
- Alan Green - BBC Radio 5 Live football commentator
- Seamus Heaney - Nobel Prize-winning poet
- Annie Mac - radio DJ
- Phil Kieran - club DJ
- Tony McAuley - broadcaster and musician
- Eamonn McCann - journalist and civil rights activist
- Paul Muldoon - Pulitzer Prize-winning poet.
- Liam Neeson - actor
- Stephen Rea - actor
- Nick Ross - broadcaster
- Zöe Salmon - television presenter
- Maclean Stewart - actor
- Alexander Walker - journalist, author and film critic
- Patrick Kielty - television Presenter
[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.
- Dominic Bradley - Social Democratic and Labour Party MLA for Newry and Armagh
- 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
- Diane Dodds - Democratic Unionist Party MLA for West Belfast
- Nigel Dodds - Barrister and Democratic Unionist Party MP for North Belfast
- Sir Reg Empey - Leader of the Ulster Unionist Party
- Sir Ronnie Flanagan - Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Constabulary, Former Chief Constable of Police Service of Northern Ireland and Royal Ulster Constabulary
- Arlene Foster - Democratic Unionist Party MLA for Fermanagh and South Tyrone and Minister for the Environment
- Simon Hamilton - Democratic Unionist Party MLA for Strangford
- Lord Hutton - Former British Law Lord and Chair of the Hutton Inquiry
- Sir Brian Kerr - Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland
- 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
- Eoin MacNeill - Founder of the Gaelic League
- 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
- Nelson McCausland - Democratic Unionist Party MLA for North Belfast
- Brian McConnell, Baron McConnell - former Ulster Unionist MP
- Michelle McIlveen - Democratic Unionist Party MLA for Strangford
- Monica McWilliams - Chief Commissioner of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission, co-founder of the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition and former Professor of Women's Studies and Social Policy at the University of Ulster
- Sheelagh Murnaghan - Former Ulster Liberal Party MP
- Brian McConnell, Baron McConnell - Former Ulster Unionist MP
- Ian Paisley Jnr - North Antrim MLA for Democratic Unionist Party
- Sir Andrew Porter - Former 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
- Peter Weir - Democratic Unionist Party MLA for North Down
- Jim Wells - Democratic Unionist Party MLA for South Down
- Sammy Wilson - Democratic Unionist Party MP for East Antrim
- Mark Durkan - Social Democratic and Labour Party MP for Foyle, Leader of the SDLP
[edit] Religion
- The Most Reverend Dr Patrick Walsh, Bishop of Down and Connor
- The Most Reverend Dr Anthony Farquhar, Auxiliary Bishop of Down and Connor.
- The Most Reverend Dr Donal McKeown, Auxiliary Bishop of Down and Connor.
- His Eminence Cahal Cardinal Daly, Archbishop Emeritus of The Archdiocese of Armagh (Former Lecturer and Reader in Scholastic Philosophy 1946 - 1967)
[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 Bodkin Adams - physician and suspected serial killer
- 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] Sport
- David Cullen - 2007 winner of the Arthur Ashe for Courage Award at the 2007 ESPY Awards ceremony
- Martin O'Neill - former footballer and present Aston Villa manager who studied law at Queen's before being scouted by Nottingham Forest
- Trevor Ringland - former Ireland and British Lions rugby player, 2007 winner of the Arthur Ashe for Courage Award at the 2007 ESPY Awards ceremony
[edit] Other
- Kafeel Ahmed, suspected terrorist in the 2007 Glasgow International Airport attack
- Eamon Collins - Former Provisional IRA member who later wrote a tell all book about life in the IRA.
- Laurence McKeown, former Provisional IRA member who took part in the 1981 Irish hunger strike
