Editing Carrickfergus (section)

===20th century===
*[[Daniel Cambridge]], recipient of the [[Victoria Cross]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://victoriacrossonline.co.uk/?page_id=2546|title= Daniel Cambridge|date= 26 January 2022|publisher=Victoria Cross Online|access-date=12 November 2022}}</ref>
*[[James Crichton (soldier)|James Crichton]], recipient of the [[Victoria Cross]]<ref>{{cite book|last1=Harper|first1=Glyn|author-link=Glyn Harper|last2=Richardson|first2=Colin|title=In the Face of the Enemy: The Complete History of the Victoria Cross and New Zealand|year=2007|publisher=HarperCollins|location=Auckland, New Zealand|isbn=978-1-86950-650-6|page=173}}</ref>
*[[Sammy Curran]], a prolific [[Northern Ireland Football League|Irish League]] goalscorer between the wars playing for Woodburn and [[Belfast Celtic]] among others, who was also capped 4 times by [[Ireland national football team (1882–1950)|Ireland]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://eu-football.info/_player.php?id=4070|title=Sammy Curran|publisher=EU Football| access-date=12 November 2022}}</ref>
*[[Bob Gilmore]] (1961–2015), musicologist and player of piano and keyboards, was born in nearby [[Larne]]; lived in Carrickfergus during his childhood.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/stg/Bob_Gilmore/ni.html|title=Bob Gilmore|publisher=UNiversity of Edinburgh|access-date=12 November 2022}}</ref>
*[[Seán Lester]] (1888–1959) was born in Carrickfergus. He was the last Secretary General of the [[League of Nations]], from 1940 to 1946.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hidden-gems.eu/Carrick%20Sean%20Lester.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201229170634/http://www.hidden-gems.eu/Carrick%20Sean%20Lester.pdf |archive-date=29 December 2020 |url-status=live|title=John (Seán) Ernest Lester, Acting Secretary-General of the League of Nations|publisher=Carrickfergus and District Historical Society|access-date=12 November 2022}}</ref>
*[[Billy McMillan]], former Belfast Celtic and dual IFA and [[Ireland national football team (FAI)|FAI]] Irish international footballer who lived his entire life in Carrickfergus.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.national-football-teams.com/player/37023/Billy_Mcmillan.html|title=Billy McMillan|publisher=National Football Teams|  access-date=12 November 2022}}</ref>
*[[Louis MacNeice]], poet, moved to the town when he was two years old (his father was appointed Rector of St Nicholas' [[Church of Ireland]] Church), and he left at the age of ten to attend boarding school in England; one of his poems, ''Carrickfergus'' (1937), relates his ambiguous feelings about the town where he spent his early boyhood.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://allpoetry.com/Carrickfergus|title=Carrickfergus |first=Louis|last= MacNeice|publisher=All Poetry|access-date=12 November 2022}}</ref>