Ballymena Academy - Notable Former Pupils

Notable Former Pupils

See also: Category:People educated at Ballymena Academy
  • John Alderdice, Baron Alderdice, Liberal Democrat peer, first Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly, now a member of the Independent Monitoring Commission, and psychiatrist
  • William Booth (Anglican clergyman) CVO, chaplain
  • Roger Casement, British diplomat and early human rights campaigner for the Congolese, turned Irish revolutionary, hanged in 1916 under the Treason Act
  • Barry Cowan (broadcaster)
  • George Dawson (politician), DUP MLA from 2003-7 for East Antrim
  • Steven Davis, Southampton and Northern Ireland footballer
  • George Duncan, Professor of Political Economy in the University of Dublin from 1934-67
  • Lucy Evangelista, Miss Northern Ireland 2005, placed in top ten at Miss World.
  • Edgar Graham, Northern Irish Unionist political figure, assassinated by the IRA in 1983 at the age of 29
  • George Boyle Hanna, Northern Irish Unionist politician and minister
  • Air Vice-Marshal William Harbison CB CBE DFC, Station Commander from 1963-5 of RAF Leuchars
  • David Humphreys, Irish rugby union star
  • Peter Johnston (BBC), Controller of BBC Northern Ireland (November 2006–present)
  • Alan Montgomery Jones, prominent Ulster architect and Vice President of the Royal Society of Ulster Architects, 2002–06
  • Willie John McBride, rugby player. Captain of the Irish International Team and British & Irish Lions Rugby Team
  • Prof James Sayers, Professor of Electron Physics from 1946-72 at the University of Birmingham, from 1939-43 developed the cavity magnetron which was essential for centimetric radar, and later worked from 1943-5 on the Manhattan Project
  • Dr Robert Simpson, Ulster Unionist MP (NI) from 1953-72 for Mid Antrim
  • Robin Swann, Member of the Legislative Assembly (2011- )
  • Colin Wallace, former British soldier and psychological warfare operative, subject of a wrongful imprisonment case

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