Editing Belfast (section)

=== Late 20th century ===
* [[Gerry Adams]] (born 1948), reputed republican paramilitary ([[Provisional Irish Republican Army|PIRA]]) leader, president of [[Sinn Féin]]; MP Belfast West. rtd.
* [[Derek Bell (musician)|Derek Bell]] (1935–2002), harpist, musicologist and composer, [[The Chieftains]]
* [[George Best]] (1946–2005), football international, iconic sports figure, [[George Best Belfast City Airport|City Airport]] named in his honour
* [[May Blood, Baroness Blood|May Blood]] (1938–2022), [[Union representative|shop steward]] in one of the city's last linen mills, community worker, co-founder [[Northern Ireland Women's Coalition]]
* [[John Boyd (playwright)|John Boyd]] (1912–2002), playwright, broadcaster
* [[Ciaran Carson]] (1948–2019), writer, poet ([[Belfast Confetti (poem)|Belfast Confetti]])
* [[George Cassidy (jazz musician)|George Cassidy]] (1936–2023), jazz musician and music teacher
* [[Mairead Maguire|Mairéad Corrigan]] (born 1944), with [[Betty Williams]] awarded the 1976 [[Nobel Peace Prize]], as co-founder of Women for Peace / the Peace People, critic of US and UK foreign policy
* [[David Ervine]] (1953–2007), loyalist paramilitary ([[Ulster Volunteer Force|UVF]]) veteran, leader of the pro-[[Good Friday Agreement|Agreement]] [[Progressive Unionist Party]]; MLA
* [[Gerry Fitt]] (1926–2005), [[Republican Labour Party|Republican Labour]]/[[Social Democratic and Labour Party|SDLP]] MP. Deputy Chief of the first NI [[power-sharing]] [[Executive of the 1974 Northern Ireland Assembly|executive, 1974]]
* [[David Hammond (broadcaster)|David Hammond]] (1928–2008), teacher, singer, broadcaster, and film-maker who documented the culture of the city's shipyards and streets
* [[Terri Hooley]] (born 1948), key figure in the Belfast punk scene, celebrated in the 2013 biopic [[Good Vibrations (film)|Good Vibrations]]
* [[Brian Keenan (Irish republican)|Brian Keenan]] (1942–2008), directed [[Provisional Irish Republican Army|PIRA]] bombing in the city, interlocutor for [[Decommissioning in Northern Ireland|arms decommissioning]]
* [[Helen Lewis (choreographer)|Helen Lewis]] (née Katz; 1916–2009), [[Holocaust]] survivor, teacher and choreographer, pioneer in Northern Ireland of modern dance
* [[Brian Moore (novelist)|Brian Moore]] (1921–1999), novelist ([[Judith Hearne|The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne]], [[The Emperor of Ice-Cream (novel)|The Emperor of Ice Cream]])
* [[Van Morrison]] (born 1945), singer-songwriter and musician
* [[Ian Paisley]] (1926–2014), Protestant evangelist ([[Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster|Martyrs Memorial Church, Belfast]]), founder of the [[Democratic Unionist Party|DUP]], [[First Minister of Northern Ireland|NI First Minister]]
* [[Saidie Patterson]] (1906–1985), feminist, trade unionist, peace activist.
* Fr [[Alec Reid]] (1931–2013), Catholic priest, mediator in the [[Hume–Adams dialogue|Hume–Adams talks]], [[Northern Ireland peace process]]
* [[David Trimble, Baron Trimble|David Trimble]] (1944–2022), [[Ulster Unionist Party|Ulster Unionist]] leader, [[Nobel Peace Prize]] laureate, [[First Minister of Northern Ireland|NI First Minister]]
* [[Andy Tyrie]] (born 1940), loyalist paramilitary ([[Ulster Defence Association|UDA]]) leader (rtd), [[Ulster Workers' Council strike]], [[Northern Ireland peace process|NI peace process]] advocate
* Fr. [[Des Wilson (Irish Catholic priest)|Des Wilson]] (1925–2019), [[liberation theology|dissident Catholic priest]], west Belfast community activist, republican-loyalist mediator
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