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==Notable people== {{See also|Category:People from Strabane}} *[[Paul Brady]], singer-songwriter<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sunday-life/news/strabane-singer-paul-brady-i-regret-slating-u2-42014511.html|title=Strabane singer Paul Brady: I regret slating U2|date=26 September 2022|newspaper=The Belfast Courier|access-date=4 December 2022}}</ref> *[[Burke and Hare murders|William Burke]], 19th century serial killer, from [[Urney, County Tyrone|Urney]], a Strabane townland<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://strabanehistorysociety.org/famous-people-2/|title=Famous People β Strabane History Society Website|website=strabanehistorysociety.org|access-date=24 July 2018|archive-date=25 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180725033331/http://strabanehistorysociety.org/famous-people-2/|url-status=live}}</ref> *[[Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester|Sir Guy Carleton]] (Lord Dorchester), [[Governor of the Province of Quebec]] & [[Governor General of British North America]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dib.ie/biography/carleton-sir-guy-a1478|title=Carleton, Sir Guy|publisher=Dictionary of Irish Biography|access-date=4 December 2022}}</ref> *[[Declan Curry]], [[BBC One]] correspondent<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8152749.stm|title=Strabane homecoming for Curry|work=BBC News|date=15 July 2009|accessdate=15 July 2009}}</ref> *[[Adrian Doherty]], former footballer for [[Manchester United]] and [[Derry City FC]]<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.irishnews.com/paywall/tsb/irishnews/irishnews/irishnews/sport/footballsoccer/2016/05/19/news/strabane-wonderkid-adrian-doherty-could-have-been-a-star-525116/content.html|title=Strabane wonderkid Adrian Doherty could have been a star|date=19 May 2016|newspaper=The Irish News|access-date=4 December 2022}}</ref> *[[Kathleen Dolan]], RTΓ Radio's first female radio announcer<ref>{{Cite web |date=2003-02-16 |title=Sit on my lap if you're against war |url=https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/sit-on-my-lap-if-youre-against-war/26229010.html |access-date=2023-11-20 |website=Independent.ie |language=en}}</ref> *[[Ryan Dolan]], singer for Ireland at the [[Eurovision Song Contest 2013]]<ref>{{cite news|title=Strabane singer Ryan Dolan for Eurovision final|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22536851|work=BBC News|date=15 May 2013 |access-date=19 May 2013|archive-date=11 June 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130611053011/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22536851|url-status=live}}</ref> *[[Brian Dooher]], member of the 2003, 2005 and 2008 All-Ireland winning Tyrone [[Gaelic football]] teams.<ref>{{cite news | title = Dooher to stay as Tyrone captain | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/northern_ireland/gaelic_games/7179826.stm | date = 2008-01-08 | access-date = 2020-09-01 | work = [[BBC Sport]] | archive-date = 13 January 2008 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080113042433/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/northern_ireland/gaelic_games/7179826.stm | url-status = live }}</ref> *[[Hugo Duncan]], popular entertainer and [[BBC Radio Ulster]] presenter<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/people/catching-up-with-the-wee-man-from-strabane-3535976|title='Everyone loves the best of country music across Ulster - it unites us'|date=25 January 2022|newspaper=News Letter| access-date=4 December 2022}}</ref> *[[John Dunlap]], printer of the [[United States Declaration of Independence]]<ref name=dunlap/> *[[Andrew Frederick Gault]] (1833β1903), merchant, industrialist, and philanthropist known as the Cotton King of Canada.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/gault_andrew_frederick_13E.html |title=Gault, Andrew Frederick|publisher=Canadian Dictionary of Biography | access-date=4 December 2022}}</ref> *[[Matthew Hamilton Gault]], financier and politician at [[Montreal]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio.php?id_nbr=5532| title=Gault, Matthew Hamilton|publisher=Canadian Dictionary of Biography | access-date=4 December 2022}}</ref> *[[Matthew Holmes (politician)|Matthew Holmes]], New Zealand runholder and politician<ref>{{cite book |last= Burke |first= Bernard |title= Burke's Colonial Gentry |edition= 2 |orig-year= 1891 |year= 1970 |publisher=Genealogical Publishing Company |location= Baltimore, Ohio |isbn= 0-8063-0415-4 |pages= [https://archive.org/details/genealogicalhera0000burk/page/201 201,202] |url= https://archive.org/details/genealogicalhera0000burk/page/201 }}</ref> *[[Chipzel|Niamh Houston]], better known as Chipzel, is a musician known for her 8-bit music<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-foyle-west-21612792|title=British Academy Game Awards: Strabane woman Niamh Houston nominated|date=5 March 2013|newspaper=BBC| access-date=4 December 2022}}</ref> *[[Annie Scott Dill Maunder|Annie Russell Maunder]], astronomer<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Fletcher|first1=Lyndsay|last2=Dalla|first2=Silvia|date=2016-10-01|title=A pioneer of solar astronomy Women & The RAS: Annie Maunder|journal=Astronomy & Geophysics|language=en|volume=57|issue=5|pages=5.21β5.23|doi=10.1093/astrogeo/atw181|issn=1366-8781|doi-access=free}}</ref> *[[Pearse McAuley]], [[Provisional Irish Republican Army|IRA]] member jailed for the [[Death of Jerry McCabe|killing of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe]]<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/37029.stm|work=BBC News|title=Jail breaker on police killing charge|access-date=30 June 2015}}</ref> *[[Flann O'Brien]], best known [[pseudonym]] of [[Brian O'Nolan]], 20th century bilingual (but Irish-mother-tongue) satirist and humourist.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.northernirelandworld.com/news/blue-plaque-for-strabanes-flann-obrien-2787609|title=Blue plaque for Strabane's Flann O'Brien|date=23 September 2011|newspaper=Northern Ireland World| access-date=4 December 2022}}</ref> *[[Stephen O'Neill]], member of the Tyrone [[Gaelic football]] team.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/arid-30345888.html|title=O'Neill calls time on inter-county career|date=24 January 2008|newspaper=The Irish Examiner| access-date=4 December 2022}}</ref> *[[Robert Patterson]] (1792β1881), Irish-American major general<ref>{{cite book |last1=Patterson |first1=Lindsay |title=The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. Vol. XXXIX |date=1915 |publisher=The Historical Society of Pennsylvania |location=Philadelphia |page=80 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h9kXkGfMGHQC |access-date=8 December 2023}}</ref> *[[Rory Patterson]], Football striker currently playing for [[Derry City F.C]] in the Irish [[League of Ireland]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.strabaneweekly.co.uk/football/2021/11/03/gallery/four-goal-patterson-refuses-to-take-the-plaudits-as-strabane-athletic-make-it-three-from-three-19559/|title=Four-goal Patterson refuses to take the plaudits as Strabane Athletic make it three from three|date=3 November 2021|newspaper=Strabane Weekly News|access-date=4 December 2022}}</ref> *[[George Sigerson|Dr George Sigerson]], Gaelic activist; namesake of the [[Sigerson Cup]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ulsterhistorycircle.org.uk/george-sigerson/|title=George Sigerson|date=18 April 2015 |publisher=Ulster History Circle| access-date=4 December 2022}}</ref> *[[H.G. Simms]], Chairman of the [[Shanghai Municipal Council]] (1922β23)<ref>North China Herald, 20 October 1923, p179</ref> *[[Robert Welch (photographer)|Robert Welch]], photographer and conchologist<ref>{{Cite web|title=Robert John Welch|date=18 April 2015 |url=https://ulsterhistorycircle.org.uk/robert-john-welch/|publisher=Ulster History Circle| access-date=4 December 2022}}</ref>
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