Dame Mary Peters

Dame Mary Peters was born 1939 in Lancashire. She is originally British but moved to Ballymena when she was eleven and now she is living in Lisburn outside Belfast.

Mary is a former athlete who won 3 gold medals in pentathlon and gold, silver medals in shot put. She was the vice president of the northern outward Bound Association. She also was Patron of Springhill Hospice in Rochdale, Greater Manchester. The premier athletics track in Northern Ireland is called Mary Peters after her. In 2009 she was nominated to be the next Lord Lieutenant of the city of Belfast.