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Julian Stafford Corbett (1854-1923) was born Thames Ditton, England. He was educated at Marlbourough and Trinty College, Cambridge and gained a degree in law. Corbett belonged to the historical school of strategy that rejected the technological determinism of the material school; he examined the past conduct of competing nations in order to understand all historical forces at work and the various alternative appraoaches to strategic problems. Despite the fact that he was a civilian, the authoritative way in which he dealt with his themes communicated itself not only to the public but to the Naval Service. He became the unofficial historical advisor to the Admiralty and lectured at the Naval War College at Greenwich in 1900. At the beginning of World War I Corbett was selected by the Committee of Imperial Defence to write the official naval history. Corbett's great aim was to attempt a marriage between principles and history without sacrificing historical accuracy or the requirements from research in depth. His final, and most important book, Some Principles of Maritime Strategy, drawing on many years of research, codified all of his thoughts on strategy.His other books include England on the Mediterranean (1904), England in the Seven Years War (1907), and Canpaign of Trafalger (1910).

Pseudomym of Mary Mackay. English popular novelist. Studied music and turned to fiction at the age of 30 with her first novel "A Romance of Two Worlds" of 1886.

Regis Corelli was an interviewer who worked on the Oral History Project for the Office of the Dean of Women at Queen's University.

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Daniel Corkery (Dónall Ó Corcora) was an Irish politician, writer and academic. He is best known as the author of The Hidden Ireland, his 1924 study of the poetry of eighteenth-century Irish Language poets in Munster.
Born in the city of Cork and educated at the Presentation Brothers and St. Patrick's College of Education, Dublin where he trained as a teacher. He taught at schools in Cork but resigned from St Patrick's School there in 1921 when he was refused the headmastership. He then taught art for the local technical education committee, before becoming inspector of Irish in 1925, and later Professor of English at University College Cork in 1930.
He was a member of Seanad Éireann from 1951 to 1954 when he was nominated by the Taoiseach.

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E.F. Corkill was a student at Queen's University.

Albert Vernon Corlett (1899-1970) was head of the Department of Mining at Queen's University from 1948 to 1964. Prior to that time he held various posts prospecting for, and managing, mines. Upon retirement he was engaged as a consultant for technical advice on investment and in arbitrations.