Royal Belfast Academical Institution - Alumni

Alumni

See also: Category:People educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution

• John Miller Andrews, second Prime Minister of Northern Ireland
• Thomas Andrews, chief designer at Harland and Wolff shipyards and RMS Titanic architect
• Paul Gleghorne, International Hockey star for Ireland.
• Sir Kenneth Bloomfield, former Head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service, and former Chairman of the Board of Governors, RBAI
• Wesley Burrowes, playwright and screenwriter
• Lord Carswell of Killeen, Law Lord and former Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland
• Colonel Tim Collins, Commanding Officer of the 1st Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment in Iraq during Operation Telic (2001)
• Sir Donald Currie, shipping magnate and founder of the Currie Cup rugby union competition held in South Africa
• William Huston Dodd, judge of the High Court of Justice in Ireland 1907–24
• Colin Gowdy, LL.D, Northern Irish district judge; current Chairman of the Board of Governors, RBAI
• William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, physicist. (The school's Kelvin house is named after him)
• Lord Laird, Ulster Unionist life peer
• Sir Joseph Larmor, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, Cambridge University, 1903–33. (The school's Larmor house is named after him)
• Michael Longley, poet
• Lord Lowry, former Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland
• Denis MacEoin, controversial novelist
• Derek Mahon, poet
• Bowman Malcolm (1854–1933), railway civil and mechanical engineer
• Brian Mawhinney, a member of the Cabinet until 1997 and a Member of Parliament until 2005, currently Chairman of the Football League
• R. B. McDowell, fellow of Trinity College Dublin, historian of 18th-century Ireland
• Kenneth Montgomery, principal conductor, Ulster Orchestra
• Stephen Nolan, BBC radio and television presenter
• Lembit Öpik, former Liberal Democrat MP for Montgomeryshire
• Christopher Salmon Patterson (1823–1893), judge of the Supreme Court of Canada
• William Pirrie, Viscount Pirrie, Chairman of Harland and Wolff 1895–1924. (Pirrie House is named in his memory)
• Mark Pollock, blind international rower and entrepreneur
• Paul Rankin, television chef and owner of a chain of restaurants in Belfast
• Forrest Reid, Ulster novelist and literary critic
• Brigadier John Alexander Sinton VC, OBE, FRS, MB, DL (1884–1956), doctor, malariologist and recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Paul Smith, founder of Celador; creator of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (gameshow); executive producer of Slumdog Millionaire (film)
• Leonard Steinberg, Baron Steinberg, life peer and businessman
• Dawson Stelfox, the leader of the 1993 Irish Expedition to Mount Everest and the first Irishman to reach the summit
• Ian Stewart, Northern Ireland International Footballer
• Robin Thompson, captain British and Irish Lions rugby team 1955, South Africa
• Dermott Monteith, the Ireland Cricket Team's all-time leading wicket taker
• Christopher Rowden Hill, photographer
• Robert Wilson Lynd, Northern Irish author
• Air Vice Marshall Sir William Tyrrell, Irish Rugby international, member of first official British Isles Rugby team in 1910, decorated military officer, and surgeon to King George VI of the United Kingdom
• Ryan Caldwell, Irish rugby international, Ulster Rugby player
• Peter Barron, former editor of BBC Newsnight
• Jim Neilly, BBC boxing commentator