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. The Alumni list 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 - former Chancellor
- Professor Cornelius O'Leary - former Professor of Political Science
- Professor John H. Whyte - former Professor of Political Science
- Professor Raymond Warren - former Professor of Composition and Professor of Music
[edit] Alumni
[edit] Academia
- Professor Tan Sri Datuk Anuwar Ali - Vice-Chancellor of Open University Malaysia
- Professor Dame Ingrid Allen - Professor Emerita of Neuropathology
- Professor Sir David Bates - Prominent physicist
- Professor Sir Colin Campbell - former 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
- Matthew McDiarmid (1914-1996) - Literature professor and campaigning academic. Editor of the canonical Scottish Text Society editions of the poets Robert Fergusson and Blind Hary.
- Professor P G (Gerry) McKenna - former Vice Chancellor and President of the University of Ulster, President Emeritus of Heads of University Centres of Biomedical Science (HUCBMS)
- Datuk Rafiah Salim - Vice-Chancellor of University of Malaya and former Assistant Secretary General for the United Nations Human Resource Management
[edit] Arts and media
- Wesley Burrowes - playwright and screenwriter
- 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
- Ryan Kelly - Member of the male Irish vocals group, Celtic Thunder
- Patrick Kielty - television Presenter
- Rigsy - radio/club DJ and television Presenter
- Connor Phillips - Radio /Television Presenter and club DJ
- 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
[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
- Lord Kerr of Tonaghmore - Former Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland, Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (the youngest and the only Justice who is not graduated from Oxbridge.)
- 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 - former 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
- Gearóid Ó Cuinneagáin -Irish fascist and leader of Ailtirí na hAiséirghe
- 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, former Leader of the SDLP
- Air Vice Marshall Sir William Tyrrell, Irish Rugby international, member of first official British Isles Rugby team in 1910, decorated military officer, and surgeon to King George VI of the United Kingdom
- Toiréasa Ferris Sinn Féin politician and the first female Mayor of Kerry and first Sinn Féin Chairperson of Kerry County Council.
- Janil Puthucheary - Singapore People's Action Party (PAP) MP for Punggol West.
[edit] Religion
- Dr Patrick Walsh, Bishop Emeritus of Down and Connor (Catholic Chaplain of the University 1963-1970)
- Dr Anthony Farquhar, Auxiliary Bishop of Down and Connor (Assistant Chaplain of the University 1970-1975)
- Dr Donal McKeown, Auxiliary Bishop of Down and Connor.
- Cahal Daly, Archbishop Emeritus of The Archdiocese of Armagh (Former Lecturer and Reader in Scholastic Philosophy 1946 - 1967)
- Rev Prof James McEvoy B.A., B.D., M.A., Ph.D. emeritus chair of scholastic philosophy. (Died 2010)
- Rt Rev Monsignor Ambrose MacAuley B.A., S.T.L., D.Eccl.Hist., church historian (Catholic Chaplain of the University 1970-1983)
- Morris S. Seale, Theologist
[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
- Thomas MacDonald (1908-1998) - cricketer
- Martin O'Neill - former footballer and former Leicester City, Celtic and 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
- Air Vice Marshall Sir William Tyrrell, Irish Rugby international, member of first official British Isles Rugby team in 1910, decorated military officer, and surgeon to King George VI of the United Kingdom
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[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
