Academia
- Professor Tan Sri Datuk Anuwar Ali – BSc (Econ) 1970; Vice-Chancellor Open University Malaysia (W)
- Professor Dame Ingrid Allen – MB BCh BAO 1957; Professor Emerita of Neuropathology at QUB
- Professor Ciaran Carson – BA English 1971; Director Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at Queen’s (W)
- Professor Art Cosgrove – BA History 1951; former President of University College Dublin
- Professor Roy Crawford – BSc Mechanical Engineering 1970; current Vice-Chancellor of the University of Waikato in New Zealand (W)
- Professor Roger Downer – BSc Zoology 1963; former President and Vice-Chancellor at the University of Limerick
- Professor Marianne Elliott – BA Modern History 1971; Director Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool (W)
- Professor David Livingstone – BA Geography 1975; Professor of Geography & Intellectual History at Queen’s (W)
- Dr Phillip Matthews – BSc Zoology 1986; President, National College of Ireland (W)
- Professor James McWha – BAgr Agricultural Botany 1970; Vice-Chancellor University of Adelaide
- Professor John McWhirter – BSc Mathematics 1970; Distinguished Research Professor in Engineering at Cardiff University
- Professor Paul Muldoon – BA English 1973; Howard GB Clark '21 Professor at Princeton University
- Christopher Pressler FRSA – BA Modern History 1995; Director, Senate House Libraries, University of London
- Professor John P Ssebuwufu – PhD Chemistry, 1977; Director of Research Programmes at the Association of African Universities
