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==Notable people==
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* [[Robert Bradford (Northern Irish politician)|Rev. Robert Bradford MP]] - Methodist Minister and MP for South Belfast. Murdered by the [[Provisional IRA]] on 14 November 1981.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/features/robert-bradfords-widow-norah-the-murder-of-another-mp-sir-david-amess-filled-me-with-horror-i-know-what-his-family-are-suffering-41023438.html|title=Robert Bradford's widow Norah: 'The murder of another MP, Sir David Amess, filled me with horror. I know what his family are suffering.'|date=6 November 2021|newspaper=The Belfast Telegraph|access-date=20 November 2022}}</ref>
* [[David Brewster (politician)|David Brewster]] LLB - noted Solicitor and former UUP Forum member for East Londonderry 1996.<ref>{{cite web |title=Tributes paid to popular Limavady solicitor David Brewster who died suddenly |url=https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/tributes-paid-to-popular-limavady-solicitor-david-brewster-who-died-suddenly-39991901.html |website=belfasttelegraph |access-date=17 July 2021 |archive-date=4 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210304011442/https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/tributes-paid-to-popular-limavady-solicitor-david-brewster-who-died-suddenly-39991901.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[John Deighan]] – [[Derry GAA]] [[Gaelic football]]er and SDLP Councillor.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.derryjournal.com/news/gaa-player-selected-new-sdlp-councillor-776104|title=GAA player selected as new SDLP councillor|date=3 June 2016|newspaper=Derry Journal| access-date=20 November 2022}}</ref>
* [[Denis Desmond|Sir Denis Desmond]], KCVO, CBE (Born 1943), is a retired British company director and public administrator, who was Lord Lieutenant of County Londonderry from 2000 to 2018. Lives in Bellarena House just outside Limavady.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/dVHvPxaOMXL9XxKQhe2YMqq53C0/appointments|title=Denis Fitzgerald Desmond|publisher=Companies House| access-date=20 November 2022}}</ref>
* [[Boyd Douglas]] (born 13 July 1950) - Councillor on Limavady Borough Council and later Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council from 1997 - 2014. He also served as MLA for East Londonderry from 1998 to 2003.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/unionist-councillor-boyd-douglas-defamed-sinn-fein-representative-anne-brolly-29913467.html|title=Unionist councillor Boyd Douglas defamed Sinn Fein representative Anne Brolly|date=14 January 2014|newspaper=The Belfast Telegraph|access-date=20 November 2022}}</ref>
* [[William Douglas (Northern Ireland politician)|William Douglas]] - [[Flight Lieutenant]] in the [[Royal Air Force]] during the [[Second World War]]. He rose to prominence as Limavady District Master in the Orange Order. From 1960 to 1973, he served on Limavady Rural District Council. He was then elected in Londonderry for the Ulster Unionist Party at the 1973 Northern Ireland Assembly election, and held his seat on the Constitutional Convention and at the 1982 Assembly.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.northernirelandworld.com/news/opinion/letters/orange-awards-2012-2718819|title=Orange Awards 2012|date=15 December 2012|newspaper=Northern Ireland World| access-date=20 November 2022}}</ref>
* [[George Downing (politician)|George Downing]] – seventeenth-century politician.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://apps.communities-ni.gov.uk/Buildings/buildview.aspx?id=5880&js=true|title=Listing building details: Walworth House 11 Walworth Road Ballykelly Limavady Co Londonderry BT49 9JU|publisher=Department for Communities| access-date=20 November 2022}}</ref>
* Senator [[John Cherry Drennan]] CBE JP born 1899 died 1983) Drennan studied at [[Foyle College]] before working as a farmer in the Limavady area. He became active in the Ulster Unionist Party, and served for it in the [[Senate of Northern Ireland]] from 1961 until it was prorogued in 1972. Lord Lieutenant for County Londonderry 1965 - 1974.<ref>John F. Harbinson, ''The Ulster Unionist Party, 1882-1973'', p.206</ref>
* Very. Rev. [[Victor Griffin]] – formerly Dean of [[St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin]]<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/tributes-flow-in-for-inspirational-former-derry-dean-victor-griffin-35363727.html|title=Tributes flow in for 'inspirational' former Derry Dean Victor Griffin|date=13 January 2017|newspaper=The Belfast Telegraph|access-date=20 November 2022}}</ref>
* [[Ruth Kelly]] – Labour MP and former Cabinet Minister.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/dec/17/highereducation.schools|title=The Guardian profile: Ruth Kelly|date=17 December 2004|newspaper=The Guardian| access-date=20 November 2022}}</ref>
* [[Andrew Kinnear]] - (ca 1750 – 23 May 1818) was an Irish-born political figure in New Brunswick. He represented Westmorland in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1786 to 1792.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.newirelandnb.ca/Genealogies-K/Kinnear.html |title=Kinnear |accessdate=2011-01-31 |publisher=Irish Canadian Cultural Association of New Brunswick|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706190959/https://www.newirelandnb.ca/Genealogies-K/Kinnear.html |archive-date=6 July 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[John Andrew Long|Senator John Andrew Long]] - Former Chairman of Limavady Rural Council and Northern Ireland Senator 1921-1941 (elected) Deputy Speaker 1927–28; Deputy Leader 1930–41, Parliamentary Secretary in the Department of the [[Prime Minister of Northern Ireland|Prime Minister]] from 1930 to 1941.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2oYLpUUiDkAC|title=Parliamentary Debates (official Report)|volume=15|publisher= Northern Ireland Parliament|year=1932|page=329}}</ref>
* [[Charles Logue (builder)|Charles Logue]] (1858–1919) - born Limavady, founded the Charles Logue Building Company in Boston. It constructed many churches, as well as Fenway Park baseball stadium.<ref>{{cite web |title=Charles Logue |url=https://openarchives.umb.edu/digital/collection/p15774coll6/id/3563 |publisher=[[University of Massachusetts Boston]] |access-date=17 April 2025}}</ref>
*Professor [[Charles Gibson Lowry]] FRCOG (1880 - 1951) surgeon at the Royal Victoria Hospital and the Royal Maternity Hospital in Belfast. In 1921 he became professor of midwifery at Belfast and a Pro-Chancellor of, Queen's University, Belfast. He was a foundation fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. He served with the Royal Army Medical Corps during the First World War.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cjYeAQAAIAAJ|title=The Lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, 1929-1969|page=26|year=1976|publisher=Heinemann Medical Books}}</ref>
* [[William Lowry|Rt. Hon. William Lowry MP]] - (19 March 1884 – 14 December 1949) was an Irish barrister, judge, [[Ulster Unionist Party]] Member of Parliament, and [[Attorney General for Northern Ireland]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TIovAQAAIAAJ|title=The Irish Law Times and Solicitors' Journal|year=1949|volume=83|page=328|publisher=John Falconer}}</ref>
* [[William Massey|William Ferguson Massey]] – 19th [[Prime Minister of New Zealand]] (from 1912 to 1925) was born and educated in the town before migrating.<ref>{{DNZB|Gustafson|Barry|2m39|Massey, William Ferguson|10 December 2011||Barry Gustafson}}</ref> 
* [[Thomas St George McCarthy]] (1862–1943) – was an Ireland rugby union international and founder member of the Gaelic Athletic Association. He also played soccer for Limavady FC when he was stationed in the town in 1888, and captained both the town's football and cricket clubs. He was a double winner of the [[North West Senior Cup (football)|County Londonderry senior cup]] in football and the inaugural County Londonderry Senior cricket cup final in 1888. He rose to become vice-president of the North West of Ireland Football Association and captain of the County Londonderry representative cricket side that played against the Northern Cricket Union.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.tipperarylive.ie/news/home/661009/bansha-man-thomas-st-george-mccarthy-the-only-gaa-founder-excluded-from-honoured-memory.html|title=Bansha man, Thomas St George McCarthy, the only GAA founder excluded from honoured memory|date=2 September 2021|newspaper=Tipperary Live| access-date=20 November 2022}}</ref>
* [[Maurice McCausland|Rt. Hon. Maurice Marcus McCausland]] - He was [[High Sheriff of County Londonderry]] in 1908, and in 1926, he was appointed as [[Lord Lieutenant of County Londonderry]], serving until his death. In 1934, he was appointed to the [[Privy Council of Northern Ireland]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8S41AAAAIAAJ|title=Reports|issue=473–513|publisher= Northern Ireland Parliament|year=1939|page=19}}</ref>
* Judge [[John McCunn]] (1820–1872) Judge of the Superior Court New York from 1863 to 1870<ref>Londonderry Journal 24 August 1864</ref>
* [[Jimmy McCurry]] (1830–1910) – folk musician, traditionally associated with the [[Londonderry Air]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://niarchive.org/projectitems/the-blind-fiddler/|title=The Blind Fiddler|publisher=Northern Ireland Archive|  access-date=20 November 2022}}</ref>
* [[Gerry Mullan (footballer)|Gerry Mullan]] – Former [[Glentoran]], [[Everton F.C.|Everton]] and [[Northern Ireland]] footballer.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.where-are-they-now.co.uk/footballer/Mullan+Gerry/22259|title=Gerry Mullan|publisher=Where are they now?| access-date=20 November 2022}}</ref>
*[[David Ogilby (soldier)|Sir David Ogilby]] (1755 - 1834) was born in Limavady, County Londonderry, and went to India to serve with the East India Company. After twenty-two years he was knighted and returned to Ireland. He wrote and published poems, which included translations of Indian poets, in Walker's Hibernian Magazine in 1804.<ref>''Londonderry Journal'', 24 October 1772 (reporting his death).</ref>
*[[John Scott Porter]] (31 December 1801 – 5 July 1880) educated locally and at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution. For a time he was a schoolteacher and edited The Christian Observer in London. In 1826 he became a Presbyterian minister, and from 1831 he had a congregation at Rosemary Street, Belfast. In 1838 he was appointed Professor of Theology and in 1851 Professor of Hebrew to the Association of Irish Non-Subscribing Presbyterians. He edited the Christian Moderator and the Bible Christian and was a prolific theological writer. Among his works was Principles of Textual Criticism, published in 1848. He was devoted to the preservation of the Irish language.<ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Porter, John Scott|volume=46}}</ref>
* [[William Porter (Attorney General)|William Porter]] – His Majesty's Attorney General at the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa<ref>Londonderry Journal 24 August 1964</ref>
* [[William Preston (Virginia soldier)|William Preston]] –  (25 December 1729 – 28 June 1783) was an Irish-born American military officer, planter and politician who founded a political dynasty.
* [[Muriel Robertson|Dr. Muriel Robertson FRS]], protozoologist and bacteriologist<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Bishop | first1 = A. | last2 = Miles | first2 = A. | doi = 10.1098/rsbm.1974.0014  | doi-access = free| title = Muriel Robertson. 1883-1973 | journal = [[Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society]] | volume = 20 | pages = 316–347 | year = 1974 | jstor = 769644| pmid = 11615759| s2cid = 26594618 }}</ref>
* [[William Ross (Unionist politician)|Willie Ross]] - Former Limavady Councillor and MP for Londonderry then East Londonderry 1974–2001.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/73-81lglimavady.htm|title=The Local Government Elections 1973-1981: Limavady|publisher=Northern Ireland Elections| access-date=20 November 2022}}</ref>
* [[Thomas Teevan (Unionist politician)|Thomas Teevan LLB MP]] - West Belfast MP and youngest Limavady Urban Council Chairman.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=2269|title= Thomas Teevan|publisher=Elections Ireland| access-date=20 November 2022}}</ref>
* [[Samuel Young (Irish politician)|Samuel Young]] (1822–1918), MP, was Limavady Brewery's founder.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.irishnews.com/sport/gaafootball/2018/08/02/news/headline-1396873/|title='Gaelic Sunday' 1918: When the GAA opposed British forces' oppression|date=2 August 2018|newspaper=The Irish News| access-date=20 November 2022}}</ref>
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