List of people from Belfast

This is a list of notable people born, raised or resident in Belfast.

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Brian Desmond Hurst in 1976 (portrait by Allan Warren)
 
John Lavery
 
Siobhan McKenna

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Chaim Herzog
 
David Trimble

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  • Thomas Andrews (1813–1885), chemist and physicist
  • Isobel Agnes Arbuthnot (1870–1963), botanist and botanical collector based in South Africa
  • John Stewart Bell (1928–1990), physicist
  • Jocelyn Bell Burnell (born 1943), astronomer (discoverer of pulsars); born in Lurgan
  • Sidney Elisabeth Croskery (1901–1990), doctor;[4] born in Gortgranagh, Killinure, County Tyrone
  • John Boyd Dunlop (1840–1921), inventor and veterinary surgeon; born in Dreghorn, North Ayrshire, and studied to be a veterinary surgeon at the Dick Vet, University of Edinburgh, moving to Downpatrick, Ireland in 1867
  • George Crawford Hyndman (1796–1867), biologist
  • Charles Lanyon (1813–1889), architect; born in Eastbourne, Sussex; moved to Antrim in 1836 to become county surveyor until 1860; elected Mayor of Belfast in 1862
  • William Lewis (1885–1956), Professor of Physical Chemistry, Liverpool; propounded collision theory
  • Samuel Martin Stephenson (1742–1833), prominent Belfast doctor who founded a hospital, the medical society and medical school
  • William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, OM, GCVO, PC, PRS, FRSE, (1824–1907), mathematical physicist, engineer, and leader in the physical sciences of the 19th century

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References edit

  1. ^ "Ian Masterson". Discogs. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  2. ^ "Paul Masterson". Discogs. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  3. ^ "Seaneen Molloy", guardian.co.uk, London: Guardian Media Group, 17 December 2010, retrieved 13 January 2011
  4. ^ Sidney Elisabeth Croskery: Whilst I Remember, The Blackstaff Press, Dundonald, 1983, ISBN 978-0-85640-260-9
  5. ^ "Glasgow 2014 - Alanna Audley-Murphy Profile". g2014results.thecgf.com. Retrieved 24 October 2020.

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