Notable Former Pupils
See also: Category:People educated at Cookstown High School- Stuart Dallas winger, attacking midfielder for Brentford and Northern Ireland football teams.
- Fulham FC and Northern Ireland central defender and captain Aaron Hughes.
- Alan Turkington, RADA trained actor, specialising in theatre.
- William McKeown, painter, who exhibited at the 51st Venice Biennale) in 2005.
- Nick Laird, novelist.
- Ernest Walton (1903–1995); Nobel Prize in Physics (1951); known for his part in "splitting the atom"
- Jimmy Kennedy, OBE (1902–1984); songwriter & lyricist;
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