List of Trinity College Dublin people

This is an incomplete list of some notable alumni of the University of Dublin, all of whom attended its only constituent college Trinity College, Dublin.

Notable alumni of the University of Dublin

Armed forces

*General Eyre Coote, Governor-General of Jamaica
*Henry George Gore-Browne, 32nd Regiment of Foot, awarded the Victoria Cross
*Sir James Murray Irwin, British army doctor
*Major-General Robert Ross, commander of the British force which sacked Washington, D.C. in 1812
*Sir Hovenden Walker, Royal Navy officer

Arts

*Thomas Bateson, 17th century writer of madrigals
*Ciaran Farrell, composer
*Brian Boydell, composer
*Michael Colgan, director of the Gate Theatre, film and TV producer
*Thomas Manly Deane, architect
*Pádraic Delaney, actor
*Margaret Fiedler, musician and singer
*Percy French, songwriter and entertainer
*Fergus Johnston, Irish composer
*Nathaniel Lande, author, filmmaker, and former creative director of TIME magazine
*Damien Leith, singer
*Courtney Love, American actress and rock musician [ [http://www.moonwashedrose.com/media/entertainment94.html Entertainment Weekly, 1994: The Power of Love] ]
*Eleanor McEvoy, singer-songwriter
*Pauline McLynn, actress, comedian and novelist
*Katie McMahon, singer and musician
*Garret Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington, composer, father of the Duke of Wellington
*Laura Pyper, actress
*Chris Singleton, Irish singer-songwriter and producer
*Dominic West, British actor
*John Butler Yeats, artist

Broadcasting and journalism

*Sharon Ní Bheoláin, Irish news presenter
*John Bowman, Irish journalist and broadcaster
*Joe Duffy, Irish radio presenter
*Ray D'Arcy, Irish television and radio presenter
*Ken Early, soccer correspondent for Newstalk 106
*Robert Fisk, journalist
*Vincent Hanna, Northern Irish television journalist
*Declan Kiberd, professor, literary theorist, author and journalist
*Brian Inglis journalist, historian, TV presenter
*Mark Little, Irish journalist
*Blathnaid McKenna, model, current Miss Ireland
*Gerry Ryan, Irish radio presenter

Business

*John George Adair, builder of Glenveagh Castle in County Donegal and the financier of the JA Ranch in the Texas Panhandle
* Alan Joyce, chief executive of Jetstar Airways who will take up an appointment as chief executive of Qantas in November 2008
*Dermot Mannion, chief executive of Aer Lingus
*Michael O'Leary, chief executive of Ryanair
* Willie Walsh, chief executive of British Airways

Economics

*Phelim Boyle, pioneer of the use of Monte Carlo methods in derivatives pricing
*Philip R. Lane, professor of economics
*David McWilliams, Irish economist and broadcaster

Education

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

Engineering, Science 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
*Sir John MacNeill, civil engineer
*Antoin MacGabhann, Irish architect
*William Molyneux, natural philosopher
*Charles Algernon Parsons, British engineer, inventor of the modern steam turbine
*William Parsons, Astronomer
*William Stokes, Physician and professor
*Ernest Walton, Nobel Prize winner
*Benjamin Worsley, 17th century physician, surveyor and alchemist

Humanities

*Jonathan Bardon, historian
*George Berkeley, philosopher (cf. subjective idealism)
*J. B. Bury, Irish historian and classicist
*William Edward Hartpole Lecky, historian
*John Pentland Mahaffy, polymath
*Nikolai Tolstoy, historian

Law

*Akinola Apara, former Chief Judge of Oyo and Osun State in the Federal Republic of Nigeria
*Deirdre Curtin, lawyer
*Susan Denham, current Justice of the Irish Supreme Court [ [http://archives.tcm.ie/businesspost/2004/02/08/story768852161.asp Four main candidates for position of Chief Justice : ThePost.ie ] ]
*Sir Valentine Fleming, chief justice of the Supreme Court of Tasmania
*John George, Solicitor-General for 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)
*Christopher Palles, judge, Solicitor-General for Ireland
*William Foster Stawell, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria
*Sir 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 Childers (UN), writer and journalist
*Ronan Coghlan, writer
*Eoin Colfer, children's writer
*William Congreve, playwright and poet
*J. P. Donleavy, Irish-American author
*Anne Enright, novelist, winner of Man Booker Prize 2007
*Oliver Goldsmith, writer and surgeon
*Brendan Kennelly, Irish poet and author
*William Larminie, poet
*Michael de Larrabeiti, author
*Sheridan Le Fanu, author
*George Farquhar, dramatist
*John Haffenden, professor of literature
*Sir Rupert Mackeson, racing author
*Barry McCrea, novelist and lecturer
*Patrick MacDonogh, poet
*Michael Longley, poet
*Derek Mahon, poet
*Jo Shapcott, poet
*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 ""
*Oscar Wilde, Poet, Author, Dramatist author of the "The Importance of Being Earnest"

Politics and government

*Choudhary Rahmat Ali, Founder of the Pakistan National Movement
*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
*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, current Minister for Health
*Douglas Hyde, first President of Ireland
*Brian Lenihan, Jnr, Irish politician, current Minister for Finance
*George Macartney, British statesman (1st Earl Macartney)
*Mary McAleese, 8th and current President of Ireland
*Mary Lou McDonald, Irish MEP
*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
*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
*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

*Robert Henry Charles, biblical scholar, theologian, and translator
*John Nelson Darby, evangelist and Bible translator
*Richard William Enraght, Irish Anglican priest and religious controversialist
*William Fitzgerald, Church of Ireland bishop and author
*Alexander Charles Garrett, bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America
*The Most Revd William Connor Magee, Irish Anglican Archbishop of York
*Father John Main OSB, Benedictine monk
*Bishop James Ussher, Primate of All Ireland, noted for (mis)calculating the date of creation as 23 October 4004 BC

Other

*Richard Lovell Edgeworth, inventor, father of Maria Edgeworth
*Half Hung MacNaghten, 18th century gentleman fraudster
*Sally Fegan-Wyles, director of UNDG

ee also

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

Notes