Politics
- Gerry Adams, republican political leader
- Paddy Ashdown, former leader of the Liberal Democrats
- Tony Banks, later Lord Stratford, politician
- May Blood, Baroness Blood, Labour member of the House of Lords
- Robert Bradford (Northern Ireland politician) assassinated unionist politician
- Mairead Corrigan, Nobel Laureate (Peace)
- James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland
- Reg Empey, unionist political leader
- Lord Fitt, nationalist Political leader
- Chaim Herzog, sixth President of Israel
- David McCalden, far-right activist and AIDS victim
- Mary McAleese, President of Ireland.
- Arlene McCarthy, politician
- Henry Joy McCracken, industrial and Irish politician
- Alexander Robinson
- Peter Robinson (politician), unionist political leader and First Minister of Northern Ireland
- Bobby Sands, Anti H-Block MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone and Hunger Striker
- David Trimble, Nobel Peace Prize winner
- Betty Williams, Nobel Laureate (Peace)
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“Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.”
—J.B.S. (John Burdon Sanderson)