| Donovan McClelland | |
| Office: | Member of Antrim Borough Council |
| Constituency: | Antrim North West |
| Term Start: | 17 May 1989 |
| Term End: | 5 May 2005 |
| Predecessor: | Henry Cushinan |
| Successor: | Anthony Brady |
| Office1: | Deputy speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly |
| Term Start1: | 31 January 2000 |
| Term End1: | 28 April 2003 |
| Predecessor1: | Office created |
| Successor1: | John Dallat (2007) |
| Office2: | Member of the Legislative Assembly for South Antrim |
| Assembly2: | Northern Ireland |
| Term Start2: | 25 June 1998 |
| Term End2: | 26 November 2003 |
| Predecessor2: | New Creation |
| Successor2: | Thomas Burns |
| Office3: | Member of the Northern Ireland Forum for South Antrim |
| Term Start3: | 30 May 1996 |
| Term End3: | 25 April 1998 |
| Birth Name: | Seamus Donovan McClelland |
| Birth Date: | 14 January 1949 |
| Birth Place: | Toome, Northern Ireland |
| Party: | SDLP |
| Children: | 3 |
| Spouse: | Noreen McClelland |
Seamus Donovan McClelland (14 January 1949, Toome, County Antrim, Northern Ireland – 23 February 2018[1]) was an Irish Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) politician who was a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for South Antrim from 1998 to 2003.
He was appointed Deputy Speaker in February 2000. He was Chairman of the Standards and Privileges Committee and a member of the Public Accounts Committee.
Educated at Ballymena Academy, he went on to Trinity College, Dublin and Queen's University Belfast where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Economics. In 1973 Donovan joined the staff of Queen's University Belfast and began his career as a Researcher/Lecturer. He joined the Department of Agriculture in 1975 and, in 1978, took up a post as lecturer in Economics at the University of Ulster.
Donovan entered politics in 1989 when he was elected to Antrim Borough Council. He was elected as Deputy Mayor of the Borough in 1999. He was an SDLP delegate to the Brooke/Mayhew talks in 1992 and a delegate to the Forum for Peace and Reconciliation, established by the Irish Government at Dublin Castle in 1994.[2]
Donovan was elected to the new Northern Ireland Forum in 1996 and was a member of the SDLP delegation to the Multi-party Talks chaired by Senator George Mitchell. He stood as a parliamentary candidate for the South Antrim constituency in the Westminster elections on three occasions.[3]
McClelland was married to Noreen, a local councillor and 2005 UK General Election candidate for the SDLP. The couple raised three children.[4]