Editing Belfast (section)

=== Early 20th century ===
* [[Winifred Carney]] (1887–1943), [[Women's suffrage|suffragist]], [[Easter Rising|rebel 1916]], labour activist. (Statue at City Hall).
* [[Thomas Carnduff]] (1886–1956), shipyard poet, playwright, trade unionist, [[Independent Orange Order|Independent Orangeman]].
* [[Edward Carson]] (1854–1935), leader of [[Unionism in Ireland|Ulster Unionism]] in the [[Home Rule Crisis]]. (Statue before the [[Parliament Buildings (Northern Ireland)|Parliament Buildings at Stormont]])
* [[William Conor]] (1881–1968), painter renowned for his sympathetic portrayals of working-class life
* [[William Conway (cardinal)|William Conway]] (1913–1977), [[Cardinal (Catholic Church)|Cardinal]] and [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Armagh|All--Ireland Primate]], co-founder of [[Trócaire]]
* [[James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon|James Craig]] (1871–1940), [[Ulster Unionist Party|Ulster Unionist]], first [[Prime Minister of Northern Ireland]]
* [[Joseph Devlin]] (1871–1934), journalist, [[Irish Parliamentary Party|Irish nationalist]]  [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|Westminster]] and [[Parliament of Northern Ireland|Stormont]] MP, President of the [[Ancient Order of Hibernians]]
* [[Harry Ferguson]] (1884–1960), developer of the modern agricultural tractor, first person in Ireland to build and fly an aeroplane
* [[John Hewitt (poet)|John Hewitt]] (1907–1987), poet ("The Bloody Brae"). Freedom of the City 1983
* [[C. S. Lewis]] (1898–1963), writer and [[Anglicanism|Anglican]] [[lay theologian]]. (Honoured as author of [[The Chronicles of Narnia]] in C. S. Lewis Square, East Belfast).
* [[Margaret McCoubrey]] (1880–1955), militant [[Women's Social and Political Union|WPSU]] suffragette, peace campaigner, [[Belfast Labour Party|Labour]] City Councillor
* [[Harry Midgley]] (1893–1957), labour union and [[Northern Ireland Labour Party|party]] organiser, post-war [[Ulster Unionist Party|Unionist]] Minister for Education
* [[Cathal O'Byrne]] (1876–1957), writer, actor, journalist.
* [[Alexander Robinson|Alexander "Buck Alec" Robinson]] (1901–1995), docklands streetfighter and loyalist gunman. Kept lions in his [[Sailortown (Belfast)|Sailortown]] home
* [[Betty Sinclair]] (1910–1981), [[Communist Party of Ireland|Communist party]] activist, 1932 Outdoor Relief protest, [[Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association]] chair
* [[Joseph Tomelty]] (1911–1995), stage and screen ([[Odd Man Out]]) actor, writer and broadcaster
* [[William Walker (trade unionist)|William Walker]] (1871–1918), unionist labour organiser and vice-chair of the [[Labour Party (UK)|British Labour Party]]
* [[Ernest Walton]] (1903–95), with [[John Cockcroft]] Nobel Prize for splitting the atom