List of Queen's University Belfast people

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.

=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 Cornelius O'Leary - former Professor of Political Science
* Professor John H. Whyte - former Professor of Political Science

=Alumni=

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
* Matthew P McDiarmid - essayist and editor of early Scots makars
* Datuk Rafiah Salim - Vice-Chancellor of University of Malaya and former Assistant Secretary General for the [United Nations|United Nations Human Resource Management

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

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

Religion

* Dr Patrick Walsh, Bishop of Down and Connor
* Dr Anthony Farquhar, Auxiliary Bishop of Down and Connor.
* Dr Donal McKeown, Auxiliary Bishop of Down and Connor.
* Cahal Cardinal Daly, Archbishop Emeritus of The Archdiocese of Armagh (Former Lecturer and Reader in Scholastic Philosophy 1946 - 1967)

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

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

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