List of Famous people born in Derry, United Kingdom
Alan Davidson
Alan Eaton Davidson CMG was a British diplomat and writer best known for his writing and editing on food and gastronomy.
Noel Willman
Noel Willman was an Irish actor and theatre director. Born in Derry, Ireland, Willman died aged 70 in New York City, United States.
Eamon Martin
Eamon Martin KC*HS is an Irish prelate of the Catholic Church who has been Archbishop of Armagh and the Primate of All Ireland since 2014.
Mark Durkan
Mark Durkan is a retired Irish nationalist politician from Northern Ireland. Durkan was the deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland from 2001 to 2002, and the Leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party from 2001 to 2010. He contested the Dublin constituency for Fine Gael at the 2019 European Parliament election.
Peter Casey
Peter Joseph Casey is an Irish entrepreneur and political candidate. He is the founder and former Executive Chairman of Claddagh Resources, a global recruitment and executive search business. From 2012 to 2014 he was a panellist on the RTÉ television programme Dragons' Den, in which he was one of the investors adjudicating business plan pitches.
Bronagh Gallagher
Bronagh Gallagher is an Irish singer and actress from Northern Ireland. Gallagher had her first acting role in the 1989 television movie Dear Sarah. In 2020, she was listed at number 33 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors.
James McGuinness
James Joseph McGuinness served as the eighth Roman Catholic Bishop of Nottingham from 1974 to 2000.
Jim McLaughlin
James Christopher McLaughlin is a Northern Irish former footballer and was later a football manager in the League of Ireland.