List of Trinity College Dublin people

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 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., 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 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 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 Garret Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington, composer, father of the Duke of Wellington Dominic West, British actor John Butler Yeats, artist

Broadcasting and journalism

Sharon Ní Bheoláin, Irish news presenter John Bowman, Irish journalist and broadcaster Crosaire (J.D. Crozier), B.A. Dubl 1940, complied the cryptic crossword for The Irish Times for fifty-nine years. Joe Duffy, Irish radio presenter Ray D'Arcy, Irish television and radio presenter Ken Early, soccer correspondent for Newstalk 106 Robert Fisk, journalist

Charles Graham Halpine, journalist Vincent Hanna, Northern Irish television journalist Brian Inglis, journalist, historian and television presenter Aine Lawlor, Irish radio and television presenter Mark Little, Irish journalist David McWilliams, writer and broadcaster on economic and social issues Gerry Ryan, Irish radio presenter Ian Wilson, Irish radio producer

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, chief executive of Aer Lingus Michael O'Leary, chief executive of Ryanair Willie Walsh, chief executive of British Airways

Economics

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

Philip R. Lane (born 1969), academic and economist

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. James E. Ferguson, Classics Department, St. Sebastian's School, Needham, MA

Science, mathematics, engineering and medicine

Denis Parsons Burkitt, surgeon and researcher into childhood cancer (cf. Burkitt's lymphoma) Aeneas Coffey, Irish Engineer, inventor of the Coffey still 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 John Joly, Physicist and geologist Sir John MacNeill, civil engineer Antoin MacGabhann, Irish architect 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, British engineer, inventor of the modern steam turbine William Parsons, Astronomer Thomas Preston, scientist 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).

Humanities

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

Ian Graham (BSc 1951), Mayanist archaeologist Declan Kiberd, Professor of Anglo-Irish Literature, University College, Dublin John Pentland Mahaffy, Classicist R.B. McDowell, historian 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 Sir Valentine Fleming, chief justice of the Supreme Court of Tasmania 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 the Irish Senate 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 Foster Stawell, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria Egbert Udo Udoma, justice of the Nigerian Supreme Court and Chief Justice of Uganda

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 Ronan Coghlan, writer 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 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, racing author Thomas MacNevin, writer and journalist Derek Mahon, poet Bryan Malessa, novelist Barry McCrea, novelist and lecturer 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 Trevor White, food critic and author of Kitchen Con Oscar Wilde, poet, dramatist, and a wit read Greats in Trinity from 1871 - 1874. As a student, Wilde was active in the University Philosophical Society.

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) 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. 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 preceeding 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

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 MacNally, Playwright attorney and British spy

See also

• List of Chancellors of the University of Dublin
• List of Professorships at the University of Dublin
• List of Provosts of Trinity College, Dublin

References