Belfast
Belfast ranks 149th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Genoa, Memphis, Tennessee, and Osaka. Memorable people born in Belfast include William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, George Best, and C. S. Lewis. Memorable people who died in Belfast include Betty Williams, Ernest Walton, and David Trimble. Belfast has been the birth place of many soccer players, and actors and the death place of many social activists, and politicians. Belfast is located in United Kingdom.
Belfast is the capital city and principal port of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan and connected to the open sea through Belfast Lough and the North Channel. It is the second-largest city on the island of Ireland, with an estimated population of 348,005 in 2022, and a metropolitan area population of 671,559. Read more on Wikipedia
People
Between 1798 and 1996, Belfast was the birth place of 80 globally memorable people, including William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, George Best, and C. S. Lewis. Additionaly, 9 globally memorable people have passed away in Belfast including Betty Williams, Ernest Walton, and David Trimble.
People Born in Belfast
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William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
PHYSICIST
1824 - 1907
HPI: 72.70
Rank: 1
George Best
SOCCER PLAYER
1946 - 2005
HPI: 71.38
Rank: 2
C. S. Lewis
WRITER
1898 - 1963
HPI: 70.09
Rank: 3
Chaim Herzog
DIPLOMAT
1918 - 1997
HPI: 67.04
Rank: 4
Kenneth Branagh
ACTOR
1960 - Present
HPI: 66.33
Rank: 5
Gary Moore
MUSICIAN
1952 - 2011
HPI: 64.65
Rank: 6
Betty Williams
SOCIAL ACTIVIST
1943 - 2020
HPI: 64.09
Rank: 7
Osborne Reynolds
PHYSICIST
1842 - 1912
HPI: 61.17
Rank: 8
Mairead Maguire
SOCIAL ACTIVIST
1944 - Present
HPI: 61.00
Rank: 9
John Stewart Bell
PHYSICIST
1928 - 1990
HPI: 58.60
Rank: 10
Ciarán Hinds
ACTOR
1953 - Present
HPI: 57.97
Rank: 11
Stephen Rea
ACTOR
1946 - Present
HPI: 55.90
Rank: 12
Newly Added People Born in Belfast
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John McNally
ATHLETE
1932 - 2022
HPI: 44.54
Rank: 36
Louis MacNeice
WRITER
1907 - 1963
HPI: 37.69
Rank: 47
Gerry Armstrong
SOCCER PLAYER
1954 - Present
HPI: 37.34
Rank: 48
Derek Porter
ATHLETE
1967 - Present
HPI: 28.71
Rank: 60
Alan McDonald
SOCCER PLAYER
1963 - 2012
HPI: 27.95
Rank: 61
David McCreery
SOCCER PLAYER
1957 - Present
HPI: 27.55
Rank: 62
Naomi Long
POLITICIAN
1971 - Present
HPI: 24.71
Rank: 63
Liam Boyce
SOCCER PLAYER
1991 - Present
HPI: 17.19
Rank: 72
Matty Kennedy
SOCCER PLAYER
1994 - Present
HPI: 13.98
Rank: 73
Stephen Scullion
ATHLETE
1988 - Present
HPI: 0.00
Rank: 75
Paul Pollock
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
1986 - Present
HPI: 0.00
Rank: 76
Kevin Seaward
ATHLETE
1983 - Present
HPI: 0.00
Rank: 77
People Deceased in Belfast
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SOCIAL ACTIVIST
1943 - 2020
HPI: 64.09
Rank: 1
Ernest Walton
PHYSICIST
1903 - 1995
HPI: 61.49
Rank: 2
David Trimble
POLITICIAN
1944 - 2022
HPI: 55.34
Rank: 3
Thomas Andrews
CHEMIST
1813 - 1885
HPI: 53.49
Rank: 4
Alex Higgins
SNOOKER
1949 - 2010
HPI: 52.21
Rank: 5
Ian Paisley
POLITICIAN
1926 - 2014
HPI: 50.33
Rank: 6
John McNally
ATHLETE
1932 - 2022
HPI: 44.54
Rank: 7
Charlotte Despard
SOCIAL ACTIVIST
1844 - 1939
HPI: 39.37
Rank: 8
Cahal Daly
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
1917 - 2009
HPI: 35.16
Rank: 9
Newly Added People Deceased in Belfast
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Most individuals born in present day Belfast were soccer players (24), actors (9), writers (7), politicians (6), and athletes (5), while most who died were social activists (2), politicians (2), physicists (1), chemists (1), and snookers (1).
Occupational Trends
Over the past 100 years, soccer players have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Belfast, including George Best, Jonny Evans, and Vivian Campbell. Whereas, throughout history, soccer players have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Belfast, including George Best, Jonny Evans, and Vivian Campbell.
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Overlapping Lives
Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 25 globally memorable people born in Belfast since 1700.
