Celebrities from Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland: 20 memorial pages
of people who were born or died here, or were laid to rest here
Memorial
Sam Neill
09/14/1947 – 07/13/2026
78 years
New Zealand actor (born 1947)
Memorial
Peter McParland
04/25/1934 – 05/04/2025
91 years
Northern Irish footballer (born 1934)
Memorial
Ray Stevenson
05/25/1964 – 05/21/2023
58 years
British actor
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David Trimble
10/15/1944 – 07/25/2022
77 years
First Minister of Northern Ireland from 1998 to 2002
Memorial
Billy Bingham
08/05/1931 – 06/09/2022
90 years
Northern Irish footballer and manager
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Lucinda Riley
née Lucinda Kate Edmonds
02/16/1968 – 06/11/2021
53 years
Irish writer
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John Hume
01/18/1937 – 08/03/2020
83 years
Irish politician from Northern Ireland
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Betty Williams
05/22/1943 – 03/17/2020
76 years
Northern Irish peace activist
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Harry Gregg
10/27/1932 – 02/16/2020
87 years
Northern Irish footballer and manager
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Lyra McKee
03/31/1990 – 04/18/2019
29 years
Northern Irish journalist
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Keith Patrick O’Brien
03/17/1938 – 03/19/2018
80 years
British catholic cardinal
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Martin McGuinness
05/23/1950 – 03/21/2017
66 years
Sinn Féin politician and deputy First Minister
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Brian Friel
01/09/1929 – 10/02/2015
86 years
Irish dramatist, author and theatre director
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Ian Paisley
04/06/1926 – 09/12/2014
88 years
politician and former church minister
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Seamus Heaney
04/13/1939 – 08/30/2013
74 years
Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer
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Gary Moore
04/04/1952 – 02/06/2011
58 years
Northern Irish musician
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Alex Higgins
03/18/1949 – 07/24/2010
61 years
Northern Irish snooker player
Memorial
George Best
05/22/1946 – 11/25/2005
59 years
Northern Irish association football player
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George Armstrong
08/09/1944 – 11/01/2000
56 years
English footballer and manager
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Ernest Walton
10/06/1903 – 06/25/1995
91 years
Irish physicist and Nobel laureate