List of Irish Presbyterians

The following are notable Irish Presbyterians.

Clergy

• John Abernethy, 18th century Presbyterian minister and advocate for religious freedom.
• John Alexander, linguist and patristic scholar.
• J. B. Armour, Presbyterian minister who supported Home Rule.
• John Baird, Old Testament scholar.
• John Bankhead, published a catechism that differed from the Westminster Shorter Catechism.
• Samuel Barber, moderator and advocate of catholic emancipation.
• William Boyd, petitioned the governor of Province of Massachusetts Bay with a proposal for emigration.
• William Bruce, grandson of Michael Bruce, minister and educator.
• Stafford Carson, former Principal at Union Theological College and former moderator.
• Henry Cooke, 19th century Presbyterian minister.
• Thomas Croskery, theologian and reviewer.
• James E. Davey, theologian and historian, acquitted of heresy charges in 1927, elected moderator in 1951.
• Ray Davey, founder of the Corrymeela Community.
• Samuel Davidson, first professor of biblical criticism at Belfast College, subsequently a Congregationalist.
• William Steel Dickson, minister and member of the Society of the United Irishmen.
• John Dunlop, CBE, former moderator (1992), a leading participant in Northern Ireland's civic life.
• John Edgar, professor of theology, moderator and Honorary Secretary to the Presbyterian Home Mission during the Famine in 1847.
• William Gibson, professor of Christian Ethics and moderator.
• Hugh Hanna, evangelist, Orangeman and Unionist.
• James Alexander Hamilton Irwin, Presbyterian Home Ruler who converted to the republican cause post-1916. Appointed to the Fianna Fáil led government’s Commission on Vocational Organisation from 1939–43 and later joined the party and served on the Fianna Fáil national executive from 1945 until his death. Offered the opportunity to stand for the Presidency of the Irish Free State but declined to do so.
• John Kinnear, Member of Parliament for Donegal, first clergyman to be elected to the House of Commons.
• Laurence Kirkpatrick (Professor of Church History and former Principal of Union Theological College, controversially dismissed for participation in a radio interview).
• Francis Makemie, Irish Presbyterian immigrant to America; moderator of the first Presbytery in America.
• Charles McMullen, former moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland.
• John Morrow, co-founder of the Corrymeela Community.
• Ken Newell, peacemaker and former moderator.
• Isaac Nelson, Irish Nationalist politician and advocate of home rule whose views were condemned by the moderator of the time.
• W. P. Nicholson, evangelist.
• Robert James Patterson, social reformer and founder of Catch-My-Pal Total Abstinence Union.
• Ruth Patterson, first woman to be ordained to the ministry of the Irish Presbyterian Church.
• James Seaton Reid, church historian.
• David J. Templeton, murdered after press coverage regarding purchase of gay pornography.

Laypeople

• Robert Anderson, second Assistant Commissioner (Crime) of the London Metropolitan Police.
• Samuel Bill, founder of the Qua Iboe Mission (later renamed Mission Africa).
• Thomas Blood, self-styled colonel who attempted theft of the Crown jewels.
• Amy Carmichael, missionary in India who opened an orphanage and founded a mission in Dohnavur.
• James Dickey, active in the Society of the United Irishmen and hanged for role at the Battle of Antrim.
• Jeffrey Donaldson, Northern Irish politician and leader of the Democratic Unionist Party.
• Robert Emmet, United Irishman and revolutionary leader.
• James Galway, flautist.
• Watty Graham, executed for his role as a United Irishman in the Rebellion of 1798.
• James Hope, radical democrat organised for the Society of the United Irishmen.
• Heather Humphreys, Fine Gael politician and government Minister.
• Naomi Long, Northern Irish politician and leader of the Alliance Party.
• Robert Wilson Lynd, Irish nationalist. editor of poetry and essayist.
• Mary Ann McCracken, social activist and campaigner.
• Henry Joy McCracken, leading member of the United Irishmen and rebel commander.
• William Orr, member of the United Irishmen who was executed in 1797.
• Edwin Poots, Northern Irish politician and former leader of the Democratic Unionist Party.
• Morris S. Seale, scholar and theologian.
• William R. Rodgers, radio broadcaster, script writer and former Presbyterian minister.
• John Skeffington, 2nd Viscount Massereene, Anglo-Irish politician, official, and peer.
• Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, Anglo-Irish politician and statesman.
• Jacob Stockdale, professional Irish rugby player.
• John Tennant, militant member of the Society of the United Irishmen.
• Theobald Wolfe Tone, founder of the Society of United Irishmen.
• Billy Wright, loyalist paramilitary leader.