List of Trinity College Dublin people

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This is list of notable alumni of the University of Dublin, located in Dublin, Ireland, all of whom attended Trinity College, its only constituent college.

Armed forces

Eyre Coote (1762–1823), Irish British Army soldier and politician; Governor-General of Jamaica (1806–1808)
Henry George Gore-Browne (1830–1912), Irish British Army colonial of the 100th Regiment of Foot; awarded the Victoria Cross (circa 1857, while a captain of the 32nd Regiment of Foot)
James Murray Irwin (1858–1938), Irish British Army major-general doctor
Col. Ernest Achey Loftus, CBE was a soldier, teacher and diarist.
Robert Nairac (1948–1977), English British Army captain; abducted and killed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in 1977; posthumously awarded the George Cross (1979)

Robert Ross (1766–1814), Anglo-Irish British Army officer; participated in the Napoleonic Wars (various ranks); commander of the British force which sacked Washington, D.C. and burned down the White House, during the War of 1812 (as major-general)
Sir Hovenden Walker (1656 or 1666 – 1725 or 1728), Royal Navy officer

Arts

Thomas Bateson, 17th-century writer of madrigals
Ciaran Farrell, composer
Michael Bogdanov, theatre director
Brian Boydell, composer
Michael Colgan, director of the Gate Theatre, film and television producer
Donnacha Dennehy, composer
Thomas Manly Deane, architect
Chris de Burgh, singer and musician
Pádraic Delaney, actor
David O'Doherty, comedian
Margaret Fiedler, musician and singer
Susan Fitzgerald, actress
Percy French, songwriter and entertainer
Jack Gleeson, actor
Constantine Gregory, actor
Lisa Hannigan, singer
Andrew Hozier-Byrne, singer
Fergus Johnston, Irish composer
Dillie Keane, singer-songwriter and actress

Nathaniel Lande, author, filmmaker and former creative director of Time
Jacknife Lee, record producer
Damien Leith, singer
Eleanor McEvoy, singer-songwriter
Katie McGrath, actress
Sean Pol McGreevy, actor/musician
Paul McGuinness, manager of U2
Pauline McLynn, actress, comedian and novelist
Katie McMahon, singer and musician
Sylvia O'Brien, opera singer
Laura Pyper, actress
Chris Singleton, Irish singer-songwriter and producer
Max Stafford-Clark, theatre director
Garret Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington, composer, father of the Duke of Wellington
Dominic West, British actor
Ian Whitcomb. singer and entertainer
John Butler Yeats, artist

Broadcasting and journalism

Bruce Arnold, journalist and author
Sharon Ní Bheoláin, Irish news presenter
John Bowman, Irish journalist and broadcaster
Rory Carroll, US West Coast correspondent, The Guardian
Marc Coleman, radio presenter and columnist
Tony Connelly, Europe Editor, RTE
Crosaire (J.D. Crozier), B.A. Dubl 1940, complied the cryptic crossword for The Irish Times for fifty-nine years.^[1]
Joe Duffy, Irish radio presenter
Ray D'Arcy, Irish television and radio presenter
Ken Early, soccer journalist
Robert Fisk, journalist
Veronica Guerin, crime reporter
Charles Graham Halpine, journalist
Vincent Hanna, Northern Irish television journalist
Brian Inglis, journalist, historian and television presenter

Mary Jordan, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
Aine Lawlor, Irish radio and television presenter
Martyn Lewis, British newsreader and journalist
Quentin Letts, British columnist and theatre critic
Mark Little, Irish journalist
Edmund O'Donovan, Irish war correspondent
Alex Massie, freelance journalist
David McWilliams, writer and broadcaster on economic and social issues
Rupert Pennant-Rea, former editor of The Economist
Gerry Ryan, Irish radio presenter
Cliff Taylor, editor, Sunday Business Post
Nick Webb, Business Editor, Sunday Independent

W.L.Webb, Literary editor & foreign correspondent, The Guardian

Business

John George Adair, builder of Glenveagh Castle in County Donegal and the financier of the JA Ranch in the Texas Panhandle
Lord Haskins of Skidby, chairman of Northern Foods
Alan Joyce, chief executive of Qantas

Dermot Mannion, former chief executive of Aer Lingus
Michael O'Leary, chief executive of Ryanair
Willie Walsh, chief executive of British Airways
Anthony Watson, president and chief operations officer of Bitreserve, former chief information officer for Barclays and Nike

Economics

Sean Barrett, economist and member of Seanad Eireann
Phelim Boyle (born 1941), academic and economist; pioneer of the use of Monte Carlo methods in derivatives pricing
Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (1845–1926). Irish philosopher and political economist

Morgan Kelly, professor of economics, University College Dublin
Philip R. Lane (born 1969), academic and economist
Kevin O'Rourke, Professor of Economic History, Oxford

Education

Robert Blackburn, International Secretary of the United World Colleges and Deputy Director General of the International Baccalaureate
McFadden Alexander Newell, first principal of Maryland State Normal School (Towson University)
Ferdinand von Prondzynski, president of Dublin City University

Louise Richardson, former executive dean of Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and political scientist at Harvard University, now Principal of the University of St Andrews.
Increase Mather, seventh president of Harvard University.

Science, mathematics, engineering and medicine

Denis Parsons Burkitt, surgeon and researcher into childhood cancer (cf. Burkitt's lymphoma)
Georgia Chenevix-Trench, cancer researcher
Aeneas Coffey, Irish Engineer, inventor of the Coffey still
Steven Collins, co-founder of Havok
George Francis FitzGerald, Professor of physics
Oliver St John Gogarty, physician and ear surgeon
Alexander Henry Haliday, entomologist
William Rowan Hamilton, mathematician
William Henry Harvey, Botanist
Werner Israel, Physicist
John Joly, Physicist and geologist
Sir John MacNeill, civil engineer
Richard Maunsell, Chief Mechanical Engineer, South Eastern and Chatham Railway, and Southern Railway
Henry Benedict Medlicott, geologist
William Molyneux, natural philosopher

Robert Mallet, engineer and scientist
Charles Algernon Parsons, engineer, inventor of the modern steam turbine
Thomas Preston, scientist
William Johnson Sollas, geologist and anthropologist
John Lighton Synge, mathematician and scientist
William Stokes, Physician and professor
George Johnstone Stoney, physicist who proposed the term 'electron' for the fundamental unit of electricity
Ernest Walton, Nobel Prize winner
Benjamin Worsley, 17th century physician, surveyor and alchemist
Gordon Foster (1920–2010) was a fellow emeritus at the college, and was Professor of Statistics and Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and statistics. He was the author of the International Standard Book Numbering system, a global standard and a book on Information Technology in Developing Countries (ISBN 9280808311).^[2]

Humanities

Jonathan Bardon, historian
George Berkeley, philosopher (cf. subjective idealism)
J. B. Bury, Irish historian and classicist
Edward Dowden, Shakespearean scholar
Roy Foster, Carroll Professor of Irish History, Hertford College, Oxford University
R.J.B. Knight, naval historian
William Edward Hartpole Lecky, historian
Edward Hincks, Orientalist

Ian Graham (BSc 1951), Mayanist archaeologist^[3]
Declan Kiberd, Professor of Anglo-Irish Literature, University College, Dublin
John Pentland Mahaffy, Classicist
R.B. McDowell, historian
Brendan Simms, historian and fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge
Alastair Sweeny, Canadian historian, publisher
Rory Sweetman, New Zealand historian
Nikolai Tolstoy, historian

Law

Sir James Andrews, 1st Baronet, Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland
Deirdre Curtin, lawyer
Susan Denham, current Justice of the Irish Supreme Court^[4]
Sir Valentine Fleming, chief justice of the Supreme Court of Tasmania
Henry Flavelle Forbes, C.I.E., President of the Court of Appeal, Iraq, 1920/21
John George, Solicitor-General for Ireland
Edward Gibson, 1st Baron Ashbourne, Attorney-General and Lord Chancellor of Ireland
Brian McCracken, retired Justice of the Irish Supreme Court and chair of the McCracken Tribunal
Catherine McGuinness, retired Justice of the Irish Supreme Court, former member of Seanad Éireann and President of the Law Reform Commission

Frank Murphy, United States Supreme Court Associate Justice (1940–49)
Patricia O'Brien, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and United Nations Legal Counsel
Christopher Palles, judge, Solicitor-General for Ireland
James Skinner, Chief Justice of Zambia and Malawi
William Frederick L. Stanley (1872–1939) lawyer and judge in Republic of Hawaii
William Stawell, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria^[5]
Egbert Udo Udoma, justice of the Nigerian Supreme Court and Chief Justice of Uganda

Hari Singh Gaur, barrister, jurist and educationist in India

Literature

Sebastian Barry, novelist
Samuel Beckett, dramatist, Nobel laureate
Nicholas Brady, poet and translator
Eavan Boland, Irish poet
John Boyne, novelist
Erskine Barton Childers, writer and journalist
Eoin Colfer, children's writer
William Congreve, playwright and poet
J. P. Donleavy, Irish-American author
Richard Ellman, Literary Critic and Biographer
Anne Enright, novelist, winner of Man Booker Prize 2007
George Farquhar, dramatist
Oliver Goldsmith, writer and surgeon
John Haffenden, professor of literature
Jennifer Johnston, Booker Prize–winning novelist
Brendan Kennelly, Irish poet and author
William Larminie, poet
Michael de Larrabeiti, author

Sheridan Le Fanu, author
Michael Longley, poet
Patrick MacDonogh, poet
Sir Rupert Mackeson, 2nd Baronet, racing author
Thomas MacNevin, writer and journalist
Derek Mahon, poet
Bryan Malessa, novelist
Barry McCrea, novelist and lecturer
Mark C. McGarrity, crime fiction novelist (under pen name Bartholomew Gill)
Jo Shapcott, poet
Thomas Southerne, dramatist
Oliver St. John Gogarty, poet and surgeon
Bram Stoker, author, notable for Dracula
Jonathan Swift, satirist, author of Gullivers Travels
John Millington Synge, dramatist, Poet; author of The Playboy of the Western World
Nahum Tate, lyricist and Poet Laureate
William Trevor, novelist particularly known for short stories
Trevor White, food critic and author of Kitchen Con
Oscar Wilde, poet, dramatist, and a wit read Greats in Trinity from 1871 – 1874.^[6] As a student, Wilde was active in the University Philosophical Society.^[7]

Politics and government

J. E. W. Addison, British judge and Conservative politician
Ernest Alton, independent Unionist politician in the House of Commons of Southern Ireland and in Seanad Éireann
Hugh Annesley, 5th Earl Annesley, M.P. for Cavan, later an Irish representative peer in the House of Lords
Thekla Beere, Civil Servant and chairwoman of the ILO
John Beresford, Irish statesman
Harman Blennerhassett, Irish-American supporter of the Burr conspiracy
Frederick Boland, Irish diplomat and twenty-first Chancellor of the University
Edmund Burke, philosopher, political theorist, statesman and MP for the British Whig Party
Hugh Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain and Chancellor of the University of Dublin
Dara Calleary, Fianna Fáil politician
Sir Edward Carson, leader of the Irish Unionists
Lucinda Creighton, Fine Gael politician
Richard Curran, National Centre Party and later Fine Gael TD
Sir Colville Deverell, Governor of the Windward Islands and Mauritius
Paschal Donohoe, Fine Gael TD
Robert Emmet, Irish nationalist
Henry Grattan, member of the Irish House of Commons
Mary Harney, Irish politician, former leader of the PDs and former Tánaiste
Sean Haughey, Irish politician

Douglas Hyde, first President of Ireland
Brian Lenihan, Irish politician, former Minister for Finance
George Macartney, British statesman (1st Earl Macartney)
Mairead Maguire(Irish School of Ecumenics), a peace activist, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976.
Mary McAleese, 8th President of Ireland
Mary Lou McDonald, vice president of Sinn Féin and TD
Richard Graves MacDonnell, Governor of South Australia, Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia and Governor of Hong Kong
Leonard Greenham Star Molloy, surgeon and politician
Conor Cruise O'Brien, Irish politician, writer and academic
John O'Connell, member of parliament, leader of the Repeal Association
Liz O'Donnell, Irish politician and Minister for Overseas Development
Emily O'Reilly, former journalist, author and Ombudsman
William Hoey Kearney Redmond, Nationalist politician and First World War fatality
Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland
Henry Westenra, 3rd Baron Rossmore, politician and piper
Sir Malcolm Stevenson, Governor of Cyprus and of the Seychelles
James Stopford, 2nd Earl of Courtown, Tory politician
Leo Varadkar, Fine Gael politician
Jaja Wachuku First Nigerian Foreign Affairs Minister.
Theobald Wolfe Tone, father of Irish republicans
Thomas Wyse, politician and diplomat

Religion

Arthur William Barton, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin
Robert Henry Charles, biblical scholar, theologian, and translator
John Nelson Darby, evangelist and Bible translator
Charles D'Arcy, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin and Armagh
John Dowden, Bishop of Edinburgh and ecclesiastical historian
Richard William Enraght, Irish Anglican priest and religious controversialist
William Fitzgerald, Church of Ireland bishop and author
David F. Ford, Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge since 1991
Alexander Charles Garrett, bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America

William Magee, Irish Anglican Archbishop of York
Father John Main, OSB, Benedictine monk
Fr. Malachi Martin S.J., author
Charles Maturin, Church of Ireland clergyman and gothic author
Joseph Ferguson Peacocke, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin
William Reeves, bishop, antiquarian, and President of the Royal Irish Academy
Robert Warren Stewart, missionary to China, murdered in Kucheng Massacre
Bishop James Ussher, Primate of All Ireland, noted for (mis)calculating the date of creation as the night preceding Sunday 23 October 4004 BC

Sports

Edward Allman-Smith (1886–1969), Irish British Army soldier and field-hockey player; Olympic silver medalist, as member of the Ireland field-hockey team at the 1908 Summer Olympics
Robin Roe (1928–2010), Irish clergyman and rugby footballer

Dick Spring (born 1950), Irish Gaelic footballer, hurler, rugby footballer, businessman and politician
Michael Gibson, rugby footballer
James Lindsay-Fynn, Rower, World Championship Gold, Great Britain, LM4- Munich 2007

William McCrum, inventor of penalty kick of football

Other

Sir Robert Anderson, intelligence officer, theologian and policeman
Edward Chichester, 4th Marquess of Donegall
Richard Lovell Edgeworth, inventor, father of Maria Edgeworth
Michael Elmore-Meegan, expert on global health issues,Author, humanitarian, Founder Charities

Scilla Elworthy, human rights campaigner
Blathnaid McKenna, former Miss Ireland
Half Hung MacNaghten, 18th-century gentleman fraudster
Sally Fegan-Wyles, director of UNDG
Leonard McNally, Playwright attorney and British spy

References

↑ "A Riddler Wrapped Up in an Enigma (5,7)". The Irish Times. 10 April 2010. Retrieved 4 September 2010.
↑ Foster profile Informatics Development Institute website. Retrieved 28 September 2010.
↑ Dorfman, John; Slayman, Andrew L. (Summer 1997). "Maverick Mayanist" (ONLINE ABSTRACT). Archaeology (New York: Archaeological Institute of America) 50 (5): 50–60. ISSN 0003-8113. OCLC 86456041.
↑ Four main candidates for position of Chief Justice : ThePost.ie
↑ Francis, Charles (1976). "Stawell, Sir William Foster (1815 - 1889)". Australian Dictionary of Biography 6. Canberra: Australian National University. Retrieved 2 September 2014.
↑ Ellmann, Richard, Oscar Wilde 1988:25
↑ Ellmann 1988:29

List of Trinity College Dublin people

Armed forces

Arts

Broadcasting and journalism

Business

Economics

Education

Science, mathematics, engineering and medicine

Humanities

Law

Literature

Politics and government

Religion

Sports

Other

See also

References