List of Trinity College Dublin people

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

Armed forces[]

Arts[]

  • Lenny Abrahamson, Oscar-nominated film director
  • Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, actor
  • Allen Leech, actor
  • Aisling Bea, actress and comedian
  • Jack Gleeson, actor and founding member of
  • Andrew Scott, actor
  • Cathy Belton, actress
  • Lisa Lambe, actress and singer
  • Selina Cartmell, theatre director, and director of the Gate Theatre
  • Stanley Townsend, actor
  • David Benioff, filmmaker and co-creator of Game of Thrones
  • Michael Bogdanov, theatre director
  • Derbhle Crotty, actress
  • Brian Boydell, composer
  • Michael Colgan, director of the Gate Theatre, film and television producer
  • Houston Collisson, musician
  • 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
  • Constantine Gregory, actor
  • Lisa Hannigan, singer
  • Aaron Heffernan, actor
  • Ciaran Hope, composer of orchestral, choral, and film music
  • Andrew Hozier-Byrne, singer-songwriter
  • Fergus Johnston, 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
  • Ruth Negga, actress
  • 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[1]
  • Chris Singleton, singer-songwriter and producer
  • Max Stafford-Clark, theatre director
  • Rhys Thomas, film and television director
  • 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
  • John Butler Yeats, artist
  • Thomas Bateson, 17th-century writer of madrigals

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
  • Marc Coleman, radio presenter and columnist
  • 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[2]
  • 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[]

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
  • 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[10][11]
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Aoife Gowen, researcher and professor

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
  • 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[12]
  • 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
  • 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[]

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;[15]

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
  • 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[16]
  • 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)[17]
  • Douglas Hyde, first President of Ireland
  • Princess Kako of Akishino, Japan[18]
  • Brian Lenihan, politician, former Minister for Finance
  • George Macartney, British statesman (1st Earl Macartney)
  • Richard Graves MacDonnell, Governor of South Australia, Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia and Governor of Hong Kong
  • Mairead Maguire (Irish School of Ecumenics), a peace activist, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976
  • Mary McAleese, 8th President of Ireland
  • 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
  • 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, 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
  • The Very Reverend William Gowan Todd, author, cleric, and founder of St. Mary's Orphanage for Boys in London
  • Bishop James Ussher, Primate of All Ireland, noted for calculating the date of creation as the night preceding Sunday 23 October 4004 BC

Sports[]

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[20]
  • Leonard McNally, playwright, attorney, British spy
  • Pamela Uba, medical scientist and first black person to win Miss Ireland title

See also[]

References[]

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  11. ^ Foster profile Archived 30 April 2011 at the Wayback Machine Informatics Development Institute website. Retrieved 28 September 2010.
  12. ^ 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.
  13. ^ https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/the-susan-denham-way-low-key-principled-and-effective-1.3170455
  14. ^ Francis, Charles (1976). "Stawell, Sir William Foster (1815 - 1889)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. 6. Melbourne University Press. ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 2 September 2014 – via National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.
  15. ^ Ellmann, Richard, Oscar Wilde 1988:25
  16. ^ "Hélène Conway-Mouret: Biographie d'Hélène Conway-Mouret". France Diplomatie. Retrieved 4 February 2016.
  17. ^ White, Laurence (28 August 2015). "John Mark Ambrose Herdman: Ulster diplomat served all over world in a distinguished career". Belfast Telegraph. Retrieved 3 September 2015.
  18. ^ Alexander, Harriet (1 January 2014). "Japan's royal family pose for unusual New Year photo". The Telegraph. Retrieved 11 May 2015.
  19. ^ Ed Joyce
  20. ^ Rince 2014
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