List of Famous people born in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Steven Davis is a Northern Irish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Scottish Premiership club Rangers and is the captain of the Northern Ireland national team. Davis made his full international debut in 2005 and has since been capped 124 times at senior level to become the most capped player in Northern Ireland, scoring twelve goals. He captained his nation at UEFA Euro 2016.

Lieutenant Colonel Robert Blair "Paddy" Mayne, was a British Army soldier from Newtownards, capped for Ireland and the British Lions at rugby union, lawyer, amateur boxer and a founding member of the Special Air Service (SAS).

Michael James Duff is a Northern Irish professional football manager and former player. In a career spanning from 1995 to 2016, in which he made over 700 appearances, he played as a defender for Carterton Town, Cheltenham Town, Cirencester Town and Burnley. At international level, Duff earned 24 caps for Northern Ireland. Since 2018, he is the manager of League Two club Cheltenham Town, having previously managed the Burnley reserves for two years.

Conor Burns is a British Conservative Party politician and former public relations executive serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Bournemouth West since 2010.

Maggie O'Farrell is an Irish-British novelist. Her debut novel After You'd Gone received international acclaim and won the Betty Trask Award. Her later novel The Hand That First Held Mine won the 2010 Costa Novel Award. She has twice been shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award - for Instructions for a Heatwave in 2014 and This Must Be The Place in 2017. She appeared in Waterstones' 25 Authors for the Future. Her memoir I am, I am, I am: Seventeen Brushes with Death reached number one in the Sunday Times Bestseller list. Her novel Hamnet won the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2020.

Nigel Alexander Dodds, Baron Dodds of Duncairn,, is a Northern Irish barrister and unionist politician. Dodds became North Belfast's MP in the 2001 UK general election and served in that role until he was succeeded by Sinn Féin's John Finucane in 2019. He has served in the past as a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly, and as Minister of Finance in the Northern Ireland Executive. He has been deputy leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) since June 2008. In July 2020, Dodds was nominated for a peerage in the House of Lords and announced in September 2020 that he would take the title Lord Dodds of Duncairn. He has been Lord Mayor of Belfast twice, and from 1993 has been General Secretary of the DUP.

Darron Thomas Daniel Gibson is an Irish professional footballer from Derry, Northern Ireland, who plays as a midfielder for League Two club Salford City and the Republic of Ireland national team.

Conor William Hazard is a Northern Irish professional footballer from Downpatrick who plays as a goalkeeper for Scottish Premiership club Celtic. He has previously spent time out on loan at Falkirk, Partick Thistle and two spells at Dundee.

Patrick James Coleman McNair is a Northern Irish professional footballer who plays as a defender or a midfielder for Championship club Middlesbrough and the Northern Ireland national team.

Grant Samuel McCann is a Northern Irish professional football manager and former player who played as a midfielder in the Football League. He is the manager of League One club Hull City.