List of Irish Presbyterians

The following are notable Irish Presbyterians:

Arts and Media

* Stephen Rea, actor
* Dorothy Macardle, author
* Maureen Cairnduff, author of "Who's Who in Ireland"
* William Crawley, BBC broadcaster and presenter.
* Christina Houston, publications editor at the Royal Irish Academy

Business

* Jim White, Donegal Times Person of the Year (2001), runs the White Hotel Group, former Fine Gael TD.
* William McDowell, editor of the Belfast Morning News, a predecessor of the "Irish News", in the 19th century before moving to Dublin to work on "The Freeman's Journal". Great grandfather of Michael McDowell, the former Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform in the Republic of Ireland
* Ian Cairnduff, director on behalf of Foir Teoranta, until his death in 2005 he was principal in his own financial consultancy firm, Ian Cairnduff and Associates

Clergy

* Rev JB Armour, anti-Carsonite Presbyterian Minister who supported Home Rule
* Dr Henry Cooke, 19th century Presbyterian leader.
* J Ernest Davey, theologian and historian, acquitted of heresy charges in 1927, elected Moderator 1951.
* Dr Ray Davey, founder of the Corrymeela Community.
*Dr John Dunlop, CBE, former Moderator (1992), a leading participant in Northern Ireland's civic life.
* Rev James Alexander Hamilton Irwin, Presbyterian Home Ruler who converted to the republican cause post-1916. Appointed to the Fianna Fáil led government’s Commission on Vocational Organisation from 1939-43 and later joined the party and served on the Fianna Fáil national executive from 1945 until his death. Offered the opportunity to stand for the Presidency of the Irish Free State but declined to do so.
* Rev "Roaring" Hugh Hanna, Evangelist, Orangeman and Home Rule opponent.
*Dr Ruth Patterson, first woman to be ordained to the ministry of the Irish Presbyterian Church.
* Dr Trevor Morrow, Presbyterian Minister who contributed to the mini-revival of Presbyterianism in the Republic of Ireland. His parish in Lucan, Co. Dublin has been a success story, having increased from 30 to 300 families since the 1980s.
* Rev. Prof. Matthew Leitch.D.D. President of Assemblys College Belfast.1841-1922.

Political Figures

* Colonel Harvey Bicker, former Ulster Unionist councillor and British Army officer. Chairman of the County Down 1798 Commemoration Committee. Currently a member of the Irish Council of State.
* Lady Dunpark, served as a Conservative Party councillor in Edinburgh, UK from 1974 to 1984. Lived in Carnowen, County Monaghan during her childhood and attended TCD where she studied Celtic languages.
* George Gilmore, active in the IRA during the war of independence and took the anti-Treaty side in the civil war. In 1934, along with fellow republican socialist, Frank Ryan and Peadar O'Donnell, he established the Republican Congress Movement, an organisation dedicated to the creation of a workers' republic.
* Francis Hincks, Premier of Canada West from 1851-1854.
* Denis Pringle, member of the Irish judiciary. In the 1970s, Pringle was appointed by Jack Lynch, 4th Taoiseach of Ireland, to preside over the non-jury Special Criminal Court, which was established to try IRA prisoners.
* David Trimble, Ulster Unionist Politician
* Seymour Crawford, Irish Politician, Fine Gael TD for the Cavan-Monaghan Dáil constituency.
* Stanley Laing, Irish Politician, member of Fine Gael, Councillor (South Dublin County Council).
* John McDonald, Irish Politician, member of Fine Gael, Councillor (Belturbet Town Council)
* Henry Joy McCracken, led the United Irishmen in the unsuccessful battle of Antrim
* Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, 2nd Marquess of Londonderry. Government minister; diplomat. 1769-1822.

Others

* Mabel Washington McConnell, mother to Garret Fitzgerald, 7th Taoiseach of Ireland. Worked as a secretary to George Bernard Shaw, and as a militant nationalist participated in the failed 1916 Easter Rising against British rule
* Mary Ann McCracken, one of Belfast's most progressive social reformers, a feminist and champion of the poor.
* William Drennan, medical pioneer, obstetrician, poet, patriot, philanthropist and radical founder of the United Irishmen
* Albert McConnell, first Presbyterian to be Provost of Trinity College, Dublin. Appointed by Éamon de Valera to the Irish Council of State