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This is a list of notable alumni and faculty members of [[Trinity College Dublin]].
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==Armed forces==

*[[Tom Clonan]], retired Irish Army officer, author and security analyst
*[[Eyre Coote (British Army officer)|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 troops|colonial]] of the [[100th (Prince of Wales's Royal Canadian) Regiment of Foot|100th Regiment of Foot]]; awarded the [[Victoria Cross]] (''circa'' 1857, while a [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|captain]] of the [[32nd (Cornwall) Regiment of Foot|32nd Regiment of Foot]])
*[[James Murray Irwin]] (1858–1938), Irish British Army [[major general|major-general]] doctor
*[[Ernest Achey Loftus|Col. Ernest Achey Loftus, CBE]], soldier, teacher and diarist
*[[Michael Lynch (Irish Army officer)|Michael Lynch]], [[Military Medal for Gallantry|MMG]] (1942–2008), [[Irish Army]] officer and recipient of the [[Military Medal for Gallantry]]
*[[Robert Nairac]] (1948–1977), English [[British Army]] [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|captain]]; abducted and killed by the [[Provisional Irish Republican Army]] in 1977; posthumously awarded the [[George Cross]] (1979)
*[[Robert Ross (British Army officer)|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|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 [[Madrigal (music)|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]] 
*[[Michael Colgan (director)|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) <ref>{{cite web | url=https://ffrf.org/publications/day/andrew-hozier-byrne/ | title=Andrew Hozier-Byrne | date=17 March 1980 }}</ref>
*[[Fergus Johnston]], composer
*[[Dillie Keane]], singer-songwriter and actress
*[[Lisa Lambe]], actress and singer
*[[Nathaniel Lande]], author, filmmaker and former creative director of ''[[Time (magazine)|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
*[[Eden (Irish musician)|Jonathon Ng]], musician
*[[Méav Ní Mhaolchatha]], singer
*[[Sylvia O'Brien (soprano)|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<ref>W. G. Strickland, ''A Dictionary of Irish Artists'' (1913), II, p. 298</ref> 
*[[Andrew Scott (actor)|Andrew Scott]], actor
*[[Chris Singleton (musician)|Chris Singleton]], singer-songwriter and producer
*[[Max Stafford-Clark]], theatre director
*[[Rhys Thomas (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 [[Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington|Duke of Wellington]]
*[[Dominic West]], British actor
*[[Ian Whitcomb]], singer and entertainer
*[[James White (writer and translator)|James White]], historical novelist
*[[Paul Mescal]], actor

==Broadcasting and journalism==

*[[Bruce Arnold (author)|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 (broadcaster)|John Bowman]], journalist and broadcaster
*[[Rory Carroll]], US West Coast correspondent, ''[[The Guardian]]''
*[[Tony Connelly]], Europe Editor, [[RTÉ News and Current Affairs|RTÉ]]
*[[Crosaire]] (J. D. Crozier), B.A. Dubl 1940, compiled the cryptic crossword for ''[[The Irish Times]]'' for fifty-nine years<ref>[https://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/obituaries/2010/0410/1224268029901.html "A Riddler Wrapped Up in an Enigma (5,7)"]. ''[[The Irish Times]]''. 10 April 2010. Retrieved 4 September 2010.</ref>
*[[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]], [[People of Northern Ireland|Northern Irish]] television journalist
*[[Brian Inglis]], journalist, historian and television presenter
*[[Mary Jordan (journalist)|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)|Mark Little]], journalist
*[[Alex Massie (journalist)|Alex Massie]], freelance journalist
*[[David McWilliams (economist)|David McWilliams]], writer and broadcaster on economic and social issues 
*[[Denis Murray (journalist)|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 (journalist)|Cliff Taylor]], editor, ''[[Sunday Business Post]]''
*[[Nick Webb (journalist)|Nick Webb]], Business Editor, ''[[Sunday Independent (Ireland)|Sunday Independent]]''

==Business==
*[[Conrad Burke]], physicist and entrepreneur<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bray-born entrepreneur joins hi-tech venture fund backed by Bill Gates |url=https://www.independent.ie/business/technology/bray-born-entrepreneur-joins-hi-techventurefund-backed-bybill-gates-40584974.html |access-date=2022-09-06 |website=independent |date=27 June 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[Paul Coulson]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=The $9bn man: Paul Coulson of Ardagh's latest deal confirms his place at the top of Irish business|url=https://www.independent.ie/business/irish/the-9bn-man-paul-coulson-of-ardaghs-latest-deal-confirms-his-place-at-the-top-of-irish-business-34659508.html|access-date=2020-06-26|website=independent|date=26 April 2016 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[Olivia Grosvenor, Duchess of Westminster]], senior account manager<ref>{{cite news |last1=Wills |first1=Kate |title=The woman who won the heart of the most eligible bachelor in England |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2024/05/13/duke-of-westminster-fiancee-what-we-know-olivia-henson/ |access-date=17 May 2024 |publisher=UK Daily Telegraph |date=13 May 2024 |archive-date=17 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240517102629/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2024/05/13/duke-of-westminster-fiancee-what-we-know-olivia-henson/ |url-status=live }}</ref> 
*[[Christopher Haskins, Baron Haskins of Skidby|Lord Haskins of Skidby]], chairman of [[Northern Foods]]<ref>{{Cite news|date=2001-08-06|title=Profile: Lord Haskins|language=en-GB|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/1476300.stm|access-date=2020-06-26}}</ref>
*[[Alan Joyce (executive)|Alan Joyce]], chief executive of [[Qantas]]<ref>{{Cite web|last=Schmidt|first=Lucinda|date=2007-01-24|title=Profile: Alan Joyce|url=https://www.smh.com.au/money/profile-alan-joyce-20070124-gdpavl.html|access-date=2020-06-26|website=The Sydney Morning Herald|language=en}}</ref>
*[[Laura Magahy]], company director and former director of [[Sláintecare]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gov.ie/en/press-release/fe976b-statement-from-the-department-of-health-re-the-appointment-of-laura-/|title = Statement from the Department of Health re the appointment of Laura Magahy as Executive Director of Sláintecare| date=13 July 2018 }}</ref>
*[[Dermot Mannion]], former chief executive of [[Aer Lingus]]<ref>{{Cite web|date=22 April 2005|title=Dermot Mannion appointed new Aer Lingus CEO|url=https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2005/0422/62291-aerlingus/|website=RTE}}</ref>
*[[Michael O'Leary (businessman)|Michael O'Leary]], chief executive of [[Ryanair]]<ref>{{Cite news|title=Michael O'Leary, Ryanair CEO: Growing up in public|url=https://www.ft.com/content/50ca478c-677c-11e5-a57f-21b88f7d973f|access-date=2020-06-26|website=Financial Times|date=4 October 2015|last1=Powley|first1=Tanya}}</ref>
*[[Willie Walsh (Irish businessman)|Willie Walsh]], chief executive of [[British Airways]]<ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-02-04|title=Airline CEO Willie Walsh honoured with Special Recognition Award|url=https://businessandfinance.com/airline-ceo-willie-walsh/|access-date=2020-06-26|website=Business & Finance|language=en-GB}}</ref>

==Economics==

*[[Sean Barrett (economist)|Sean Barrett]], economist and member of [[Seanad Éireann]]
*[[Peter Bellew]], chief executive of [[Malaysia Airlines]]
*[[Phelim Boyle]] (born 1941), [[academia|academic]] and economist; pioneer of the use of [[Monte Carlo method]]s in [[derivatives pricing]]
*[[Lujo Brentano]] (1884–1931), German economist and social reformer
*[[George Alexander Duncan]] (1902–2006), professor of political economy
*[[Francis Ysidro Edgeworth]] (1845–1926), philosopher and [[political economy|political economist]]
*[[Morgan Kelly (economist)|Morgan Kelly]], professor of economics, [[University College Dublin]]
*[[Philip R. Lane]] (born 1969), [[academia|academic]] and economist
*[[Kevin O'Rourke (economist)|Kevin O'Rourke]], Professor of Economic History, [[University of Oxford|Oxford]]

==Education==

*[[Robert Blackburn (educationalist)|Robert Blackburn]], International Secretary of the [[United World Colleges]]; Deputy Director General of the [[International Baccalaureate]]
*[[Increase Mather]], seventh president of [[Harvard University]]
*[[McFadden Newell|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 (scientist)|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 (company)|Havok]]
* Dimitri Leonidas Contostavlos, physician, forensic pathologist
*[[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|International Standard Book Number (ISBN)]] system (a global standard), and the book ''Information Technology in Developing Countries''<ref>{{cite book | isbn=92-808-0831-1 | title=Information Technology in Selected Countries: Reports from Ireland, Ethiopia, Nigeria, and Tanzania | last1=Drew | first1=Eileen P. | last2=Foster | first2=F. G. | date=31 December 1993 | publisher=United Nations University }}</ref><ref>[http://www.informaticsdevelopmentinstitute.net/isbn.html Foster profile] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110430024722/http://www.informaticsdevelopmentinstitute.net/isbn.html |date=30 April 2011 }} Informatics Development Institute website. Retrieved 28 September 2010.</ref>
*[[Aoife Gowen]], researcher and professor
*[[Oliver St John Gogarty]], physician and ear surgeon
*[[Alexander Henry Haliday]], entomologist
*[[Hugh Hamilton (bishop)|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 Benjamin Macneill|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 (Great Britain)|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)|Thomas Preston]], scientist
*[[Ouida Ramón-Moliner]], anaesthetist<ref>{{cite news|date=25–26 February 2020|title=Dr. Ouida (d'Abreu) Ramon-Moliner|work=[[The Record (Sherbrooke)|The Sherbrooke Record]]|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sherbrookerecord/obituary.aspx?n=ouida-ramon-moliner-dabreu&pid=195518192|via=Legacy.com|accessdate=12 June 2021|archive-date=12 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210612123624/https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sherbrookerecord/obituary.aspx?n=ouida-ramon-moliner-dabreu&pid=195518192|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[Michael Roberts (mathematician)|Michael Roberts]], mathematician
*[[William Johnson Sollas]], geologist and anthropologist
*[[William Stokes (physician)|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 in Ireland|Royal College of Surgeons]]
*[[Robert Bentley Todd]], physician, [[King's College London|Kings College]] professor, and identified with [[Todd's paresis|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 Bríd O'Leary|Valerie O'Leary]], scientist and researcher
* Orla Kearney, Embodied carbon & sustainability consultant
* Abraham Colles, Surgeon and anatomist, described Colles fracture
* Robert William Smith, described Smith's fracture

==Humanities==

*[[James Auchmuty]], historian, wartime [[MI6]] propagandist and inaugural vice-chancellor of the [[University of Newcastle (Australia)|University of Newcastle]], Australia
*[[Jonathan Bardon]], historian
*[[George Berkeley]], philosopher (cf. [[subjective idealism]])
*[[Turtle Bunbury]], historian and author
*[[J. B. Bury]], Irish historian and [[Classics|classicist]]
*[[Anna Chahoud]], Latin philologist
*[[Edward Courtney (classicist)|Edward Courtney]], scholar of Latin literature
*[[John Cruickshank (French scholar)|John Cruickshank]], scholar of French literature, language, and culture
*[[Edward Dowden]], Shakespearean scholar
*[[Sorcha Ní Fhlainn]], academic specializing in vampire fiction, horror film, and gothic studies
*[[R. F. Foster (historian)|Roy Foster]], Carroll Professor of Irish History, [[Hertford College, Oxford]]
*[[Ian Graham]] (BSc 1951), [[Mayanist]] archaeologist<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Dorfman, John |author2=Slayman, Andrew L. |date=Summer 1997 |title=Maverick Mayanist |url=http://www.archaeology.org/9709/abstracts/graham.html |format=online abstract |journal=[[Archaeology (magazine)|Archaeology]] |location=New York |publisher=[[Archaeological Institute of America]] |volume=50 |issue=5 |pages=50–60 |issn=0003-8113 |oclc=86456041}}</ref>
*[[Edward Hincks]], Orientalist
* [[Linda Hogan (ethicist)|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)|Robert McKim]], philosopher of religion
*[[Christine E. Morris]], Andrew A. David Professor in Greek Archaeology and History
* [[Jane Ohlmeyer]], historian 
*[[Franc Sadleir]], [[Regius Professor of Greek (Dublin)|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]], [[Regius Professor|Regis Professor]], co-founder of [[Irish Archaeological Society]], president of [[Royal Irish Academy]]
*[[Nikolai Tolstoy]], historian
*[[Taha Yasseri]], Professor and Inaugural Chair of Technology and Society (2003), [[Computational Social Science|Computational Social Scientist]]

==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<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/the-susan-denham-way-low-key-principled-and-effective-1.3170455 |title = The Susan Denham way: low-key, principled and effective| newspaper=[[The Irish Times]] }}</ref>
*[[Valentine Fleming (judge)|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)|John George]], [[Solicitor-General for Ireland]]
*[[Edward Gibson, 1st Baron Ashbourne]], [[Attorney-General for Ireland|Attorney-General]] and [[Lord Chancellor of Ireland]]
*[[Maureen Harding Clark]], judge of the [[International Criminal Court]] and the [[High Court (Ireland)|High Court of Ireland]]
*[[Gerard Hogan]], judge of the [[Court of Appeal (Ireland)|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 of the Supreme Court of the United States|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 John Skinner|James Skinner]], Chief Justice of Zambia and Malawi
*[[William Stanley (Hawaii judge)|William Frederick L. Stanley]] (1872–1939), lawyer and judge in [[Republic of Hawaii]]
*[[William Stawell]], [[Chief Justice]] of the [[Supreme Court of Victoria]]<ref>
{{Australian Dictionary of Biography
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 |year=1976
 |volume=6
 |id2=stawell-sir-william-foster-4635
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*[[Egbert Udo Udoma]], justice of the [[Nigerian Supreme Court]] and Chief Justice of Uganda
* [[Peter Whelan (lawyer)|Peter Whelan]], professor of law

==Literature==

*[[Sebastian Barry]], novelist
*[[Samuel Beckett]], dramatist, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel]] laureate
*[[Eavan Boland]], poet
*[[John Boyne]], novelist
*[[Nicholas Brady (poet)|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|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 (novelist)|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)|Trevor White]], food critic and author of ''[[Kitchen Con]]''
*[[John Duncan Craig]], poet
*[[Oscar Wilde]], poet, dramatist, wit; read [[Greats]] in Trinity 1871–1874;<ref>[[Richard Ellmann|Ellmann, Richard]], ''Oscar Wilde'' 1988:25</ref>

==Politics and government==
*[[John Edmund Wentworth Addison|J. E. W. Addison]], British judge and [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] politician
*[[Ernest Alton]], independent Unionist politician in the [[House of Commons of Southern Ireland]] and in [[Seanad Éireann]]
*[[Hugh Annesley, 5th Earl Annesley]], [[British House of Commons|M.P.]] for [[Cavan (UK Parliament constituency)|Cavan]], later an Irish representative peer in the [[House of Lords]]
*[[Thekla Beere]], civil servant and chairwoman of the [[International Labour Organization|ILO]]
*[[John Beresford (statesman)|John Beresford]], statesman
*[[Harman Blennerhassett]], Irish-American supporter of the [[Burr conspiracy]]
*[[Frederick Boland]], diplomat and twenty-first Chancellor of the University
*[[John Boyd (Assemblyman)|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|Lord Chancellor of Great Britain]] and Chancellor of the University of Dublin
*[[Edward Carson|Sir Edward Carson]], leader of the [[Unionists (Ireland)|Irish Unionists]]
*[[Hélène Conway-Mouret]], French senator and former minister<ref>{{cite web|title=Hélène Conway-Mouret: Biographie d'Hélène Conway-Mouret|url=http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/fr/anciens-ministres/helene-conway-mouret/|website=France Diplomatie|access-date=February 4, 2016|archive-date=5 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160205003009/http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/fr/anciens-ministres/helene-conway-mouret/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*[[Richard Curran]], [[National Centre Party (Ireland)|National Centre Party]] and later [[Fine Gael]] [[Teachta Dála|TD]]
*[[Colville Deverell|Sir Colville Deverell]], Governor of the [[Windward Islands]] and [[Mauritius]]
*[[Robert Emmet]], [[Irish nationalism|Irish nationalist]]
*[[Henry Grattan]], member of the [[Irish House of Commons]]
*[[Cecil Harmsworth, 1st Baron Harmsworth]], Liberal MP and brother of press barons, [[Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe|Lord Northcliffe]] and [[Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere|Lord Rothermere]]
*[[Mary Harney]], politician, former leader of the [[Progressive Democrats|PDs]] and former [[Tánaiste]]
*[[Mark Herdman]], diplomat, [[Governor of the British Virgin Islands]] (1986–1991)<ref name=belfast>{{cite news|first=Laurence|last=White |title=John Mark Ambrose Herdman: Ulster diplomat served all over world in a distinguished career |url=http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/john-mark-ambrose-herdman-ulster-diplomat-served-all-over-world-in-a-distinguished-career-31483467.html  |work=[[Belfast Telegraph]] |date=2015-08-28 |access-date=2015-09-03}}</ref>
*[[Douglas Hyde]], first [[President of Ireland]]
*[[Princess Kako of Akishino]], Japan<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/10545850/Japans-royal-family-pose-for-unusual-New-Year-photo.html|newspaper=The Telegraph|title=Japan's royal family pose for unusual New Year photo|first=Harriet|last=Alexander|date=1 January 2014|access-date=11 May 2015}}</ref>
*[[Brian Lenihan Jnr|Brian Lenihan]], politician, former Minister for Finance
*[[George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney|George Macartney]], British statesman (1st Earl Macartney)
*[[Jennifer Carroll MacNeill]], politician 
*[[Richard Graves MacDonnell]], [[Governor of South Australia]], [[Lieutenant-Governors of Nova Scotia|Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia]] and [[Governor of Hong Kong]]
*[[Josepha Madigan]], politician, former Minister [[Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport|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 Féin]]*
*[[Leonard Greenham Star Molloy]], surgeon and politician
*[[David Norris (politician)|David Norris]], senator, gay rights activist and former presidential candidate
*[[Conor Cruise O'Brien]], politician, writer and academic
*[[John O'Connell (MP)|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 [[Prime Minister of New Zealand|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
*[[Éamon de Valera]], American-born Irish statesman and political leader. Attended from 1904 to 1905 as "Edward de Valera".

==Religion==

*[[Arthur William Barton]], [[Church of Ireland]] [[Archbishop of Dublin (Church of Ireland)|Archbishop of Dublin]]
*[[John Henry Bernard]], [[Church of Ireland]] [[Archbishop of Dublin (Church of Ireland)|Archbishop of Dublin]]
*[[Robert Henry Charles]], biblical scholar, theologian, and translator
*[[John Curtis (bishop)|Rt. Rev. Dr. John Curtis]], bishop of [[Chekiang Province, Republic of China|Chekiang]], China
*[[John Nelson Darby]], evangelist and Bible translator
*[[Charles D'Arcy]], [[Church of Ireland]] [[Archbishop of Dublin (Church of Ireland)|Archbishop of Dublin]] and [[Archbishop of Armagh (Church of Ireland)|Armagh]]
*[[John Dowden]], [[Bishop of Edinburgh]] and ecclesiastical historian
*[[Richard William Enraght]], [[Anglican]] priest and religious controversialist
*[[William Fitzgerald (bishop)|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 (clergyman)|John Graham]], author
*[[William Connor Magee]], [[Anglican]] [[Archbishop of York]]
*Father [[John Main]], [[Order of Saint Benedict|OSB]], [[Benedictine]] monk
*[[Malachi Martin|Fr. Malachi Martin S.J.]], author
*[[Charles Maturin]], [[Church of Ireland]] clergyman and gothic author
*[[Joseph Ferguson Peacocke]], [[Church of Ireland]] [[Archbishop of Dublin (Church of Ireland)|Archbishop of Dublin]]
*[[Robert Ram]], author of The Soldiers Catechism issued to the [[New Model Army]]
*[[William Reeves (bishop)|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 language|Hebrew]]
*[[William Gowan Todd]], author, cleric, and founder of [[Orphanage#United Kingdom|St. Mary's Orphanage for Boys]] in [[London]]
*[[James Ussher]], [[Primate of All Ireland]], noted for calculating the date of [[Creation myth|creation]] as the night preceding Sunday 23 October 4004 BC
*[[Robert Wyse Jackson]], [[Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe]]
*[[Montasser AlDe'emeh]], author and researcher

==Sports==

*[[Edward Allman-Smith]] (1886–1969), [[British Army]] soldier and [[field hockey]] player; Olympic [[silver medal#Olympic Games|silver medal]]ist, 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
*[[Mike Gibson (rugby union)|Michael Gibson]], [[rugby football]]er
*[[Ed Joyce]]<ref>[[Ed Joyce]]</ref>{{Circular reference|date=February 2018}} Irish cricketer
*[[James Lindsay-Fynn]], rower, world championship gold, Great Britain, LM4 - Munich 2007
*[[Hugo MacNeill (rugby union)|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 football]]er
*[[Dick Spring]] (born 1950), [[Gaelic football]]er, [[hurling|hurler]], [[rugby football]]er, businessman and politician

==Other==

*[[Robert Anderson (Scotland Yard official)|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)|Kevin McCormack]], dancer with [[Riverdance]]; graduated from Trinity College with a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.treblehop.com/Rince2014.pdf |title=Rince 2014 |access-date=14 June 2015 |archive-date=16 July 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150716211723/http://www.treblehop.com/Rince2014.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*[[Leonard McNally]], playwright, attorney, British spy
*[[Pamela Uba]], medical scientist and first black person to win [[Miss Ireland]] title

==See also==
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*[[List of chancellors of the University of Dublin]]
*[[List of professorships at the University of Dublin]]
*[[List of provosts of Trinity College Dublin]]
*[[List of scholars of Trinity College Dublin]]
*''[[Alumni Dublinenses]]''

==References==
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