List of Famous people born in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Ray Stevenson

George Raymond Stevenson
First Name Ray
Last Name Stevenson
Born on May 25, 1964 (age 61)
Height 191 cm | 6'3

George Raymond Stevenson is a Northern Irish actor. He is known for playing Dagonet in the film King Arthur (2004) and Titus Pullo in the BBC/HBO television series Rome (2005–2007). He has portrayed two Marvel Comics characters: Frank Castle / The Punisher in Punisher: War Zone and The Super Hero Squad Show, and Volstagg in Thor and its sequels Thor: The Dark World and Thor: Ragnarok. In the 2011 film Kill the Irishman, he portrayed mobster Danny Greene. In 2012, he appeared in the seventh season of Dexter as Isaak Sirko. He also portrayed the character Blackbeard in the third and fourth seasons of Black Sails. He voiced Gar Saxon in Star Wars Rebels from 2016 to 2017 and Star Wars: The Clone Wars in 2020.

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Ryan Burnett

First Name Ryan
Last Name Burnett
Born on May 21, 1992 (age 34)

Ryan Burnett is a Northern Irish former professional boxer who competed from 2013 to 2019. He is a former unified bantamweight world champion, having held the WBA (Unified) and IBF titles between 2017 and 2018. At regional level he held the British bantamweight title from 2015 to 2017. As an amateur, he represented Ireland at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics and won a gold medal in the light-flyweight division.

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Eamonn Holmes

First Name Eamonn
Born on December 3, 1959 (age 66)
Height 179 cm | 5'10

Éamonn Holmes is a broadcaster and former journalist from Northern Ireland. Holmes co-presented GMTV for twelve years between 1993 and 2005, before presenting Sky News Sunrise for eleven years between 2005 and 2016. From 2006 until January 2021, he co-hosted This Morning with his wife Ruth Langsford on Fridays, and since 2021, on school holidays only. He has also presented How the Other Half Lives (2015–present) and It's Not Me, It's You (2016) for Channel 5. Holmes is an advocate of numerous charities and causes including Dogs Trust, Variety GB and Northern Ireland Kidney Patients' Association.

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Bethany Firth

First Name Bethany
Last Name Firth
Born on February 14, 1996 (age 30)

Bethany Charlotte Firth, is a Northern Irish swimmer competing for Great Britain as of 2014; previously Firth had competed for Ireland. A four time Paralympic gold medalist, she has won gold in her specialist event, the 100 metres backstroke for both Ireland at the 2012 Summer Paralympics and Great Britain at the 2016 Summer Paralympics, in addition to the 200 metres medley and 200 metres freestyle for Great Britain at the 2016 Games, where she was the nations most successful Paralympian with three golds and a silver medal. She competes in the S14 classification for athletes with an intellectual impairment.

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Warren Christie

First Name Warren
Last Name Christie
Born on November 4, 1975 (age 50)

Hans Warren Christie is a Northern Irish-born Canadian television and film actor known for his roles as Ray Cataldo on the ABC drama October Road and as Aidan "Greggy" Stiviletto on the ABC series Happy Town. More recently, Christie starred as Cameron Hicks in the SyFy series Alphas.

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James Burke

First Name James
Last Name Burke
Born on December 22, 1936 (age 89)

James Burke is a British broadcaster, science historian, author, and television producer. He was one of the main presenters of the BBC1 science series Tomorrow's World from 1965 to 1971 and created and presented the popular television series Connections (1978), and its more philosophical sequel The Day the Universe Changed (1985), about the history of science and technology. The Washington Post has called him "one of the most intriguing minds in the Western world".

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Gareth McAuley

Gareth Gerald McAuley

Gareth Gerald McAuley is a Northern Irish former professional footballer who played as a centre back, most recently for Scottish Premiership club Rangers. He represented Northern Ireland at senior international level, being capped on 80 occasions between 2005 and 2019.

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Aaron Hughes

Aaron William Hughes
First Name Aaron
Last Name Hughes
Born on November 8, 1979 (age 46)
Height 183 cm | 6'0

Aaron William Hughes is a Northern Irish former professional footballer who played as a defender. Hughes played mainly at centre back, but was also used at right back or left back, as well as anywhere in midfield. He is renowned for his disciplined defending, having made 455 Premier League appearances without getting sent off, which is the second-most in the history of the league, behind only Ryan Giggs.

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Damian O'Connor

First Name Damian
Last Name O'Connor
Born on February 20, 1985 (age 41)
Height 193 cm | 6'4

Damian Mackle is an Irish professional wrestler. He is currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the NXT brand under the ring name Killian Dain. In WWE, he was a member of the stable Sanity, consisting of himself, Alexander Wolfe, Eric Young, and Nikki Cross. He previously competed on the independent circuit under the ring name Big Damo, which is derived from his first ring name, Damian O'Connor.

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Stuart Dallas

First Name Stuart
Last Name Dallas
Born on April 19, 1991 (age 35)
Height 183 cm | 6'0

Stuart Dallas is a Northern Irish professional footballer who plays for Premier League club Leeds United and the Northern Ireland national team. A versatile player, most of his career appearances have been as a winger but in recent seasons he has played more often in midfield and at full-back. He was a key part of the Leeds United team under Marcelo Bielsa that won the 2019-20 EFL Championship and promotion to the premier league.

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