List of Famous people born in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Geraldine Hughes is an actress from Belfast, Northern Ireland. Born in West Belfast, Hughes has appeared in films such as Duplex, Rocky Balboa, and Gran Torino. She also played Mary Todd Lincoln in Killing Lincoln. More recently, she performed a solo play written by herself, Belfast Blues.

Brian Edward Patrick Kennedy is an Irish singer-songwriter and author from Belfast. He scored a number of hit singles and albums in the UK and Ireland during the 1990s and 2000s. He represented Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 and finished in 10th place. Brian is the younger brother of the late musician Bap Kennedy.

Ken Barrett is a Northern Irish former loyalist paramilitary. A leading figure within the Ulster Defence Association (UDA), Barrett was involved in collusion between loyalists and the British security forces during the Troubles.

Jenna McCorkell is a former figure skater from Northern Ireland. She is an eleven-time British national champion and won seven senior international medals, including gold at the Ondrej Nepela Memorial and Ice Challenge. She placed as high as eighth at the European Championships (2008) and 14th at the World Championships, and competed at two Winter Olympics.

Mark Richard Adair is a cricketer from Northern Ireland, who plays international cricket for Ireland. He has also played English county cricket for Warwickshire County Cricket Club. He is a right-arm fast bowler, who also bats right-handed. He made his international debut for the Ireland cricket team in May 2019. In January 2020, he was one of nineteen players to be awarded a central contract from Cricket Ireland, the first year in which all contracts were awarded on a full-time basis.

Marcus Hutton is an actor and voice over artist who trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Hutton played Nathan Cuddington in Channel 4's soap opera Brookside from 1998 - 2000. He has also voiced hundreds of radio and TV commercials in the UK and around the world. He has guest starred in the Doctor Who audio dramas The Church and the Crown (2002) and The Kingmaker (2006).

Kenny Shiels is a Northern Irish football player and manager, who is currently the manager of the Northern Ireland women's national team. He spent all of his playing career at different levels in the Irish Football League.

Jacqueline Anne Woodburne is an Northern Irish-born Australian actress, who is notable for her career on Australian television, and who is best known for her role of Susan Kennedy in Neighbours and her previous TV soap opera roles in The Young Doctors, Cop Shop, Sons and Daughters and Prisoner. As of 2021, she is the fourth longest-serving television soap opera actor in Australia, after Home and Away stars Ray Meagher and Lynne McGranger and her on-screen partner Alan Fletcher who joined Neighbours as Karl Kennedy nine episodes prior.

William M. Anderson is an Irish film editor who was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Editing for the film Dead Poets Society (1989). He has had an extended, notable association with the director Peter Weir, beginning with the film Gallipoli (1981), including Dead Poets Society, and continuing through The Truman Show (1998). Lee Smith co-edited The Truman Show, and was sole editor on Weir's next film, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003). Anderson was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

James Harvey is a Northern Irish football manager and former player.