List of Trinity College Dublin people

This is a list of notable alumni and faculty members of Trinity College Dublin.

Armed forces

 * Tom Clonan, retired Irish Army officer, author and security analyst
 * 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, soldier, teacher and diarist
 * Michael Lynch, MMG (1942–2008), Irish Army officer and recipient of the Military Medal for Gallantry
 * 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 (1656/1666–1725/1728), Royal Navy officer

Arts

 * Lenny Abrahamson, Oscar-nominated film director
 * Thomas Bateson, 17th-century writer of madrigals
 * Aisling Bea, actress and comedian
 * Cathy Belton, actress
 * John Butler Yeats, artist
 * David Benioff, filmmaker and co-creator of Game of Thrones
 * Michael Bogdanov, theatre director
 * Sammy Copley, singer and musician
 * Derbhle Crotty, actress
 * Brian Boydell, composer
 * Selina Cartmell, theatre director, and director of the Gate Theatre
 * Lou Caubet, Queen of the Swag
 * Michael Colgan, director of the Gate Theatre, film and television producer
 * Houston Collisson, musician
 * Anne Crookshank, emeritus professor of the history of art and founder of the faculty
 * Chris de Burgh, singer and musician
 * Thomas Manly Deane, architect
 * Pádraic Delaney, actor
 * Donnacha Dennehy, composer
 * Ciarán Farrell, composer
 * Margaret Fiedler, musician and singer
 * Susan Fitzgerald, actress
 * Percy French, songwriter and entertainer
 * Jack Gleeson, actor
 * Constantine Gregory, actor
 * Lisa Hannigan, singer
 * Aaron Heffernan, actor
 * Rachael Hegarty, poet
 * Ciaran Hope, composer of orchestral, choral, and film music
 * Andrew Hozier-Byrne, singer-songwriter (did not finish course)
 * Fergus Johnston, composer
 * Dillie Keane, singer-songwriter and actress
 * Lisa Lambe, actress and singer
 * Nathaniel Lande, author, filmmaker and former creative director of Time
 * Jacknife Lee, record producer
 * Allen Leech, actor
 * 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
 * Ruth Negga, actress
 * Jonathon Ng, musician
 * Méav Ní Mhaolchatha, singer
 * Sylvia O'Brien, opera singer
 * David O'Doherty, comedian
 * Rebecca O'Mara, actress
 * Matthew Pilkington, satirist and art historian
 * Laura Pyper, actress
 * Norman Rodway, actor
 * James Edward Rogers, architect and artist
 * Andrew Scott, actor
 * Chris Singleton, singer-songwriter and producer
 * Max Stafford-Clark, theatre director
 * Rhys Thomas, film and television director
 * Stanley Townsend, actor
 * Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, actor
 * D. B. Weiss, novelist and co-creator of Game of Thrones
 * Garret Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington, composer, father of the Duke of Wellington
 * Dominic West, British actor
 * Ian Whitcomb, singer and entertainer
 * James White, historical novelist
 * Paul Mescal, actor

Broadcasting and journalism

 * Bruce Arnold, journalist and author
 * Sharon Ní Bheoláin, news presenter
 * James David Bourchier, Balkans correspondent for The Times and advisor to Tzar Ferdinand of Bulgaria
 * John Bowman, journalist and broadcaster
 * Rory Carroll, US West Coast correspondent, The Guardian
 * Tony Connelly, Europe Editor, RTÉ
 * Crosaire (J. D. Crozier), B.A. Dubl 1940, compiled the cryptic crossword for The Irish Times for fifty-nine years
 * Ray D'Arcy, television and radio presenter
 * Joe Duffy, radio presenter
 * Maia Dunphy, broadcaster
 * Ken Early, soccer journalist
 * Robert Fisk, journalist
 * Douglas Gageby, editor of the Irish Times
 * 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, radio and television presenter
 * Quentin Letts, British columnist and theatre critic
 * Martyn Lewis, British newsreader and journalist
 * Mark Little, journalist
 * Alex Massie, freelance journalist
 * David McWilliams, writer and broadcaster on economic and social issues
 * Denis Murray OBE former BBC Ireland Correspondent.
 * Edmund O'Donovan, war correspondent
 * Rupert Pennant-Rea, former editor of The Economist
 * Gerry Ryan, radio presenter
 * Cliff Taylor, editor, Sunday Business Post
 * Nick Webb, Business Editor, Sunday Independent

Business

 * Conrad Burke, physicist and entrepreneur
 * Paul Coulson
 * Olivia Grosvenor, Duchess of Westminster, senior account manager
 * Lord Haskins of Skidby, chairman of Northern Foods
 * Alan Joyce, chief executive of Qantas
 * Laura Magahy, company director and former director of Sláintecare
 * Dermot Mannion, former chief executive of Aer Lingus
 * Michael O'Leary, chief executive of Ryanair
 * Willie Walsh, chief executive of British Airways

Economics

 * Sean Barrett, economist and member of Seanad Éireann
 * Peter Bellew, chief executive of Malaysia Airlines
 * Phelim Boyle (born 1941), academic and economist; pioneer of the use of Monte Carlo methods in derivatives pricing
 * George Alexander Duncan (1902–2006), professor of political economy
 * Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (1845–1926), 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; Deputy Director General of the International Baccalaureate
 * Increase Mather, seventh president of Harvard University
 * 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; political scientist at Harvard University; Principal of the University of St Andrews; first female Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford as of 1 Jan 2016

Science, mathematics, engineering and medicine

 * Beulah Bewley, public health physician
 * Denis Parsons Burkitt, surgeon and researcher into childhood cancer (cf. Burkitt's lymphoma)
 * William C. Campbell, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2015
 * Georgia Chenevix-Trench, cancer researcher
 * Aeneas Coffey, engineer, inventor of the Coffey still
 * Steven Collins, co-founder of Havok
 * Andrew Hope Davidson, physician and Master of the Rotunda Hospital
 * George Francis FitzGerald, professor of physics
 * Gordon Foster (1920–2010), fellow emeritus at the college; Professor of Statistics and Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and statistics; author of the International Standard Book Number (ISBN) system (a global standard), and the book Information Technology in Developing Countries
 * Aoife Gowen, researcher and professor
 * Oliver St John Gogarty, physician and ear surgeon
 * Alexander Henry Haliday, entomologist
 * Hugh Hamilton, professor of natural philosophy
 * William Rowan Hamilton, mathematician
 * William Henry Harvey, botanist
 * William Charles Hood, physician
 * Caroline Hussey, microbiologist
 * Werner Israel, physicist
 * John Joly, physicist and geologist
 * Sir John MacNeill, civil engineer
 * Robert Mallet, engineer and scientist
 * Una Martin, Clinical Pharmacologist
 * Richard Maunsell, Chief Mechanical Engineer, South Eastern and Chatham Railway, and Southern Railway
 * Henry Benedict Medlicott, geologist
 * William Molyneux, natural philosopher
 * Suzanne O'Sullivan, neurologist, prizewinning writer
 * Charles Algernon Parsons, engineer, inventor of the modern steam turbine
 * Thomas Preston, scientist
 * Ouida Ramón-Moliner, anaesthetist
 * Michael Roberts, mathematician
 * William Johnson Sollas, geologist and anthropologist
 * William Stokes, physician and professor
 * George Johnstone Stoney, physicist who proposed the term 'electron' for the fundamental unit of electricity
 * Jane Stout, ecologist and entomologist
 * John Lighton Synge, mathematician and scientist
 * Charles Hawkes Todd, physician, professor, and president of the Royal College of Surgeons
 * Robert Bentley Todd, physician, Kings College professor, and identified with Todd's palsy
 * Edward Hutchinson Synge, Irish physicist and nanoscience pioneer
 * Ernest Walton, Nobel Prize winner
 * Benjamin Worsley, 17th-century physician, surveyor and alchemist
 * Peter Wyse Jackson, botanist
 * Valerie O'Leary, scientist and researcher

Humanities

 * James Auchmuty, historian, wartime MI6 propagandist and inaugural vice-chancellor of the University of Newcastle, Australia
 * Jonathan Bardon, historian
 * George Berkeley, philosopher (cf. subjective idealism)
 * Turtle Bunbury, historian and author
 * J. B. Bury, Irish historian and classicist
 * Anna Chahoud, Latin philologist
 * Edward Courtney, scholar of Latin literature
 * John Cruickshank, scholar of French literature, language, and culture
 * Edward Dowden, Shakespearean scholar
 * Roy Foster, Carroll Professor of Irish History, Hertford College, Oxford
 * Ian Graham (BSc 1951), Mayanist archaeologist
 * Edward Hincks, Orientalist
 * Linda Hogan, fellow and Professor of Ecumenics
 * Declan Kiberd, Professor of Anglo-Irish Literature, University College Dublin
 * R. J. B. Knight, naval historian
 * Richard Layte, Professor of Sociology
 * William Edward Hartpole Lecky, historian
 * John V. Luce, classicist
 * F. S. L. Lyons, historian and Provost of Trinity College Dublin
 * John Pentland Mahaffy, classicist
 * R. B. McDowell, historian
 * Robert McKim, philosopher of religion
 * Christine E. Morris, Andrew A. David Professor in Greek Archaeology and History
 * Jane Ohlmeyer, historian
 * Franc Sadleir, Regius Professor Greek and later Provost of Trinity College Dublin; advocate for Catholic emancipation
 * Brendan Simms, historian and fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge
 * William Bedell Stanford, senator and Regius Professor of Greek at Trinity College Dublin
 * Alastair Sweeny, Canadian historian, publisher
 * Rory Sweetman, New Zealand historian
 * James Henthorn Todd, Regis Professor, co-founder of Irish Archaeological Society, president of Royal Irish Academy
 * Nikolai Tolstoy, historian

Law

 * Sir James Andrews, 1st Baronet, Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland
 * Deirdre Curtin, lawyer
 * Susan Denham, former Chief Justice of the Irish Supreme Court
 * 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
 * Hari Singh Gaur, barrister, jurist and educationist in India
 * John George, Solicitor-General for Ireland
 * Edward Gibson, 1st Baron Ashbourne, Attorney-General and Lord Chancellor of Ireland
 * Maureen Harding Clark, judge of the International Criminal Court and the High Court of Ireland
 * Gerard Hogan, judge of the Court of Appeal
 * Brian McCracken, retired Justice of the Irish Supreme Court; 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
 * Alan Shatter, politician
 * 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
 * Egbert Udo Udoma, justice of the Nigerian Supreme Court and Chief Justice of Uganda
 * Peter Whelan, professor of law

Literature

 * Sebastian Barry, novelist
 * Samuel Beckett, dramatist, Nobel laureate
 * Eavan Boland, poet
 * John Boyne, novelist
 * Nicholas Brady, poet and translator
 * Erskine Barton Childers, writer and journalist
 * Eoin Colfer, children's writer
 * Naoise Dolan, novelist
 * William Congreve, playwright and poet
 * Michael de Larrabeiti, author
 * J. P. Donleavy, Irish-American author
 * Richard Ellmann, 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
 * Claire Hennessy, writer and editor
 * Jennifer Johnston, Man Booker Prize–winning novelist
 * Brendan Kennelly, poet and author
 * William Larminie, poet
 * Sheridan Le Fanu, author
 * Michael Longley, poet
 * Patrick MacDonogh, poet
 * Rupert Mackeson, 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)
 * Annemarie Ní Churreáin, poet
 * Melatu-Uche Okorie, short-story writer
 * Sally Rooney, novelist
 * Oliver St. John Gogarty, poet and surgeon
 * Jo Shapcott, poet
 * Thomas Southerne, dramatist
 * Bram Stoker, author, known for Dracula
 * Jonathan Swift, satirist, author of Gulliver's 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
 * John Duncan Craig, poet
 * Oscar Wilde, poet, dramatist, wit; read Greats in Trinity 1871–1874;

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, statesman
 * Harman Blennerhassett, Irish-American supporter of the Burr conspiracy
 * Frederick Boland, diplomat and twenty-first Chancellor of the University
 * John Boyd, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly
 * Noël Browne, Irish Minister for Health and physician
 * 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
 * Sir Edward Carson, leader of the Irish Unionists
 * Hélène Conway-Mouret, French senator and former minister
 * Richard Curran, National Centre Party and later Fine Gael TD
 * Sir Colville Deverell, Governor of the Windward Islands and Mauritius
 * Robert Emmet, Irish nationalist
 * Henry Grattan, member of the Irish House of Commons
 * Cecil Harmsworth, 1st Baron Harmsworth, Liberal MP and brother of press barons, Lord Northcliffe and Lord Rothermere
 * Mary Harney, politician, former leader of the PDs and former Tánaiste
 * Mark Herdman, diplomat, Governor of the British Virgin Islands (1986–1991)
 * Douglas Hyde, first President of Ireland
 * Princess Kako of Akishino, Japan
 * Brian Lenihan, politician, former Minister for Finance
 * George Macartney, British statesman (1st Earl Macartney)
 * Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, politician
 * Richard Graves MacDonnell, Governor of South Australia, Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia and Governor of Hong Kong
 * Josepha Madigan, politician, former Minister Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
 * 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, politician and leader of Sinn Fein*
 * Leonard Greenham Star Molloy, surgeon and politician
 * David Norris, senator, gay rights activist and former presidential candidate
 * Conor Cruise O'Brien, politician, writer and academic
 * John O'Connell, member of parliament, leader of the Repeal Association
 * Liz O'Donnell, politician, former Minister for Overseas Development
 * Emily O'Reilly, former journalist, author, Irish Ombudsman, European Ombudsman
 * William Hoey Kearney Redmond, Nationalist politician; first World War fatality
 * Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland
 * Edward Stafford (politician) third Premier of New Zealand
 * Sir Malcolm Stevenson, Governor of Cyprus and of the Seychelles
 * James Stopford, 2nd Earl of Courtown, Tory politician
 * Leo Varadkar, politician, Taoiseach and leader of Fine Gael
 * Theobald Wolfe Tone, father of Irish republicanism
 * Jaja Wachuku first Nigerian Foreign Affairs Minister
 * Henry Westenra, 3rd Baron Rossmore, politician and piper
 * Thomas Wyse, politician and diplomat

Religion

 * Arthur William Barton, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin
 * John Henry Bernard, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin
 * Robert Henry Charles, biblical scholar, theologian, and translator
 * Rt. Rev. Dr. John Curtis, bishop of Chekiang, China
 * 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, 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
 * John Graham, author
 * William Connor Magee, 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
 * Robert Ram, author of The Soldiers Catechism issued to the New Model Army
 * William Reeves, bishop, antiquarian, and President of the Royal Irish Academy
 * Robert Warren Stewart, missionary to China, murdered in Kucheng Massacre
 * James Henthorn Todd, biblical scholar, educator, and Irish historian: Regius Professor of Hebrew
 * William Gowan Todd, author, cleric, and founder of St. Mary's Orphanage for Boys in London
 * James Ussher, Primate of All Ireland, noted for calculating the date of creation as the night preceding Sunday 23 October 4004 BC
 * Robert Wyse Jackson, Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe

Sports

 * Edward Allman-Smith (1886–1969), British Army soldier and field-hockey player; Olympic silver medalist, as member of the Ireland field-hockey team at the 1908 Summer Olympics
 * Henry Dunlop, founder of Lansdowne Football Club and builder of Lansdowne Road stadium
 * Michael Gibson, rugby footballer
 * Ed Joyce Irish cricketer
 * James Lindsay-Fynn, rower, world championship gold, Great Britain, LM4 - Munich 2007
 * Hugo MacNeill, Ireland and British and Irish Lions rugby player
 * William McCrum, inventor of penalty kick of football
 * Robin Roe (1928–2010), clergyman and rugby footballer
 * Dick Spring (born 1950), Gaelic footballer, hurler, rugby footballer, businessman and politician

Other

 * Sir Robert Anderson, intelligence officer, theologian and policeman
 * Edward Chichester, 4th Marquess of Donegall
 * Richard Lovell Edgeworth, inventor, father of Maria Edgeworth
 * Mary Elmes (1908–2002), Irish aid worker who was honoured as Righteous Among the Nations for saving the lives of more than 200 Jewish children during the Second World War
 * Michael Elmore-Meegan, expert on global health issues, author, humanitarian, founder of charities
 * Scilla Elworthy, human rights campaigner
 * Sally Fegan-Wyles, director of UNDG
 * Half Hung MacNaghten, 18th-century gentleman fraudster
 * Kevin McCormack, dancer with Riverdance; graduated from Trinity College with a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy
 * Leonard McNally, playwright, attorney, British spy
 * Pamela Uba, medical scientist and first black person to win Miss Ireland title