List of Queen's University Belfast people

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This is a list of Queen's University Belfast people including notable alumni and staff of Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland. As one of only two universities in Northern Ireland, the university has been attended by a large proportion of the nation's professionals.

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This list does not include people whose only connection with the university consists in the award of an honorary degree.

Staff

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Former Queen's Chancellor George Mitchell

Alumni

Academia

Arts and media

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Poet and Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney

Legal, military and civil service

Politicians

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Irish President Mary McAleese
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British diplomat Sir Robert Hart

Religion

Science

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Physicist H. Douglas Keith

Sport

Other

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