- Attended Ballymena Model School and South Wales Bible College.
- Has a son who is also called Ian (Ian Paisley Jr.), who is also a member of the Democratic Unionist Party.
- Paisley's use of the title 'Dr.' derives from an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree awarded by Bob Jones University in Greenville, South Carolina.
- Is a privy councillor and leader of the largest party in the Northern Ireland Assembly. Thus his title is The Revd and Rt Hon. Dr. Ian Richard Kyle Paisley MP MLA.
- Jailed in March 1969 for organising an illegal counter-demonstration against a civil rights march in Armagh. He was released during a general amnesty for people convicted of political offences.
- On the 8th of May 2007, he became First Minister of Northern Ireland.
- He is the founder of the fundamentalist Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster (1951).
- He co-founded the Democratic Unionist Party in 1971.
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