List of Trinity College Dublin people
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This is a list of notable alumni of the University of Dublin, all of whom attended its only constituent college Trinity College, Dublin.
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[edit] List of alumni of the University of Dublin
[edit] Academics, scholars and notable researchers
- George Berkeley, noted philosopher (cf. subjective idealism)
- Edmund Burke, philosopher, political theorist, statesman and MP for the British Whig Party.
- Denis Parsons Burkitt, surgeon and researcher into childhood cancer (cf. Burkitt's lymphoma)
- J. B. Bury, Irish historian and classicist
- Aeneas Coffey, Irish Engineer, inventor of the Coffey still
- George Francis FitzGerald, Professor of physics
- McFadden Alexander Newell, first principal of Maryland State Normal School (Towson University)
- Oliver St John Gogarty, physician and ear surgeon
- William Rowan Hamilton, Mathematician
- Sir James Murray Irwin, British army medic
- Declan Kiberd, professor, literary theorist, author and journalist
- William Edward Hartpole Lecky, Irish historian
- Sir John MacNeill, civil engineer
- David McWilliams, Irish economist and broadcaster
- Ferdinand von Prondzynski, president of Dublin City University
- William Stokes, Physician and professor
- Bishop James Ussher, Primate of All Ireland, noted for calculating the date of Creation as 23 October 4004 BC.
- Ernest Walton, Nobel Prize winner
[edit] Art, Broadcasting and News
- Ciaran Farrell, Composer
- Sharon Ní Bheoláin, Irish news presenter
- John Bowman, Irish journalist and broadcaster
- Rory Carroll-Maher, journalist for The Guardian
- Joe Duffy, Irish radio presenter
- Ray D'Arcy, Irish television and radio presenter
- Thomas Manly Deane, architect
- Robert Fisk, journalist
- Percy French, songwriter and entertainer
- Vincent Hanna, Northern Irish television journalist
- Fergus Johnston, Irish composer
- Brian Inglis journalist, historian, TV presenter
- Damien Leith, singer
- Mark Little, Irish journalist
- Courtney Love, American actress and rock musician [1]
- Pauline McLynn, actress, comedian and novelist, better known as Mrs. Doyle in Father Ted
- Charles Mitchel, Irish actor and television newsreader
- Gerry Ryan, Irish radio presenter
- Chris Singleton, Irish singer-songwriter and producer
- Vere Wynne-Jones, journalist and sports commentator
- Nathaniel Lande, author, filmmaker, and former creative director of TIME magazine.
[edit] Business
- Michael O'Leary, chief-executive of Ryanair
- Willie Walsh, Chief Executive Officer of British Airways
[edit] Literature
- Samuel Beckett, Dramatist, Nobel laureate
- Eavan Boland, Irish poet
- Eoin Colfer, children's writer
- Oliver Goldsmith, writer and surgeon
- Brendan Kennelly, Irish poet and author
- William Larminie, poet
- Michael de Larrabeiti, author
- Bram Stoker, Author
- Jonathan Swift, Author
- John Millington Synge, Dramatist, Poet and author of prose; author of The Playboy of the Western World
- Nahum Tate, lyricist and Poet Laureate
- Oscar Wilde, Author
[edit] Politics and Government
- Choudhary Rahmat Ali, Founder of the Pakistan National Movement
- Thekla Beere, Civil Servant and chairwoman of the ILO
- Frederick Boland, Irish diplomat and twenty-first Chancellor of the University
- Edward Carson, leader of the Irish Unionists
- Robert Emmet, Irish nationalist
- Peter Hession, 'friend' of the working man in all his unkempt guises, right wing activist
- Henry Grattan, member of the Irish House of Commons
- Mary Harney, Irish politician, former leader of the PDs (1993-2006), and former Tánaiste (1997–2006)
- Douglas Hyde, President
- George Macartney, British statesman (1st Earl Macartney)
- Mary McAleese, 8th and current President of Ireland
- Mary Lou McDonald, Irish MEP
- Leonard Greenham Star Molloy, Surgeon and M.P.
- Conor Cruise O'Brien, Irish politician, writer and academic
- Emily O'Reilly, former journalist, author and Ireland's first female Ombudsman
- William Hoey Kearney Redmond, Nationalist politician and First World War fatality
- Mary Robinson, first woman President of Ireland
- Jaja Wachuku First Nigerian Foreign Affairs Minister, etc.
- Theobald Wolfe Tone, father of Irish republicans
- Thomas Wyse, politician and diplomat
