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 Frank Blake, actor Michael Bogdanov, theatre director Cameron Cuffe, actor Siobhán Cullen, actress Sammy Copley, singer and musician Derbhle Crotty, actress Brian Boydell, composer Selina Cartmell, theatre director, and director of the Gate Theatre Michael Colgan, director of the Gate Theatre, film and television producer Ella Lily Hyland, actress 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 Zara Devlin, actress Vanessa Emme, actress Ciarán Farrell, composer Hilda Fay, actress Margaret Fiedler, musician and singer Susan Fitzgerald, actress Kwaku Fortune, actor and writer Percy French, songwriter and entertainer Tana French, crime writer and actress Danielle Galligan, actress Jack Gleeson, actor Constantine Gregory, actor Gillian Greer, playwright Lisa Hannigan, singer Éanna Hardwicke, actor (IFTA winner and BAFTA nominated) Nancy Harris, playwright Aaron Heffernan, actor Rachael Hegarty, poet Ciaran Hope, composer of orchestral, choral, and film music Andrew Hozier-Byrne, singer-songwriter (did not finish course) Ella Lily Hyland, actor Jordanne Jones, actor Fergus Johnston, composer Lauren-Shannon Jones, playwright Dillie Keane, singer-songwriter and actress Rory Keenan, actor Emmet Kirwan, actor and writer 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 Clinton Liberty, actor Róisín McBrinn, artistic director of the Gate Theatre Eleanor McEvoy, singer-songwriter Katie McGrath, actress Sean Pol McGreevy, actor/musician Paul McGuinness, manager of U2 Stephanie McKeon, actress Pauline McLynn, actress, comedian and novelist Katie McMahon, singer and musician Patrick Martins, actor Paul Mescal, actor (Oscar nominated and BAFTA winner) Justine Mitchell, actress Alex Murphy, actor Tadhg Murphy, actor Erica Murray, playwright Ruth Negga, actress Jonathon Ng, musician Méav Ní Mhaolchatha, singer Sylvia O'Brien, opera singer Brían F. O'Byrne, actor Ciara O'Callaghan, actress Agnes O'Casey, actress Ruairi O'Connor, actor Hugh O'Conor, actor David O'Doherty, comedian Alison Oliver, actor Jason O'Mara, actor Rebecca O'Mara, actress Matthew Pilkington, satirist and art historian Laura Pyper, actress David Rawle, actor Norman Rodway, actor James Edward Rogers, architect and artistW. G. Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists (1913), II, p. 298 Andrew Scott, actor Chris Singleton, singer-songwriter and producer Max Stafford-Clark, theatre director Emily Taaffe, actress Rhys Thomas, film and television director Stanley Townsend, actor Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, actor Eileen Walsh, actress 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
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"A Riddler Wrapped Up in an Enigma (5,7)". The Irish Times. 10 April 2010. Retrieved 4 September 2010. 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 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 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 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 (ISBN) system (a global standard), and the book Information Technology in Developing CountriesFoster profile Informatics Development Institute website. Retrieved 28 September 2010. 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 Sébastien Philippe, nuclear security specialist 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 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 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 Sorcha Ní Fhlainn, academic specializing in vampire fiction, horror film, and gothic studies 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