People
- Professor Ernest Walton, winner of the 1951 Nobel Prize for Physics (along with Sir John Douglas Cockcroft) attended school in Banbridge.
- Captain Francis Crozier, British naval officer and Arctic explorer, was born in Banbridge in 1796. A monument to him stands in the town square; four polar bears are carved on the base.
- F. E. McWilliam, surrealist sculptor
- John Mitchel, Irish nationalist activist and political journalist
- Dee Crawford,legendary guitarist.
- John Butler Yeats, artist and father of four artistic children. Among them were William Butler Yeats and Jack Butler Yeats.
- Margaret Barry "Maggie", Irish singer and banjo player, spent the last decade of her life in Banbridge.
- Robbie Dennison, former Wolverhampton Wanderers FC winger and Northern Ireland football international.
- Samuel Fryar, politician from the 1930s.
- Dermott Lennon world show jumping champion hails from Ballinaskeagh just outside Banbridge
- Jonathan Tuffey, Northern Ireland No 2 goalkeeper, currently playing for Inverness Caledonian Thistle in the Scottish Premier League.
- Peter Alcorn, drummer for the pirate metal band Alestorm
- Anna Hassan, educator and Dame of the British Empire.
- Gary Henderson, Dolly Parton Impressionist
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