Samuel Crooks
 The Very Reverend Samuel Bennett Crooks OBE TD was Dean of Belfast in the last third of the 20th century.He was born on 20 January 1920 into an ecclesiastical family (his father was the Rev. S. B. Crooks Rector of St Stephen’s Belfast) and educated at Down High School and Trinity College Dublin. He was ordained in 1944 and became Dean's Vicar at St Anne’s Cathedral Belfast until 1949 when he was appointed Rector of St John’s Orangefield.