- Oliver Jeffers, visual artist and author
- Patrick Kielty, Stand-Up Comedian, TV and Radio Presenter
- Connor Phillips, TV, Radio Presenter and Live Event Host
- Holly Hamilton, TV Journalist, Presenter and Reporter
- Carl Frampton, MBE (former world champion in two weight classes, having held the unified WBA (Super) and IBF super-bantamweight titles and the WBA (Super) featherweight title. At regional level he held the European and Commonwealth super-bantamweight titles).
- Barry Douglas, OBE (Pianist)
- Barry McGuigan, MBE (Former European and WBA Featherweight Champion of the World)
- Cecil Linehan, MBE (Co-founder All Children Together)
- Dame Mary Peters, DBE (Former Olympic Pentathlon Champion)
- Lord Diljit S Rana, MBE (Hotelier)
- Lady Dorinda Dunleath
- Dr Brian Lambkin (Director of the Centre of Migration Studies at the Ulster American Folk Park)
- Jennifer Johnston, FRSL (Novelist)
- Sir Kenneth Branagh (Actor and Film Director)
- Liam Neeson, OBE (Actor)
- Mairead Corrigan-Maguire (Nobel Peace Prize Winner)
- Marie Jones (Playwright, Charbanc Theatre)
- Neil Hannon (Singer/Songwriter)
- Patrick Yu (Director of Northern Ireland Council for Ethnic Minorities)
- Polly Devlin (Writer)
- Professor Aine Hyland (Founder of ‘Educate Together’ in Republic of Ireland)
- Rev Dr Norman Taggart (President Methodist Church in Ireland, 1997-98)
- Sean Rafferty (Broadcaster)
- Sir Kenneth Bloomfield, KCB (Head of the NI Civil Service, 1984-91)
- Sir James Galway, OBE (Flautist)
- Sister Ethna Kelly, R.S.M.
- Very Rev Dr John Dunlop, CBE (Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, 1992-93)