- 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 collegeTrinity 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 theVictoria Cross
*Sir James Murray Irwin,British army doctor
*Major-General Robert Ross, commander of the British force which sackedWashington, D.C. in 1812
*Sir Hovenden Walker,Royal Navy officerArts
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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 ofTIME 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 , artistBroadcasting and journalism
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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 forNewstalk 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 presenterBusiness
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John George Adair , builder ofGlenveagh Castle inCounty Donegal and the financier of theJA Ranch in theTexas Panhandle
* Alan Joyce, chief executive ofJetstar Airways who will take up an appointment as chief executive ofQantas in November 2008
*Dermot Mannion , chief executive of Aer Lingus
*Michael O'Leary, chief executive of Ryanair
* Willie Walsh, chief executive of British AirwaysEconomics
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Phelim Boyle , pioneer of the use of Monte Carlo methods in derivatives pricing
*Philip R. Lane , professor of economics
*David McWilliams , Irish economist and broadcasterEducation
* Robert Blackburn, International Secretary of the
United World Colleges and Deputy Director General of theInternational Baccalaureate Organization
*McFadden Alexander Newell, first principal of Maryland State Normal School (Towson University )
*Ferdinand von Prondzynski , president ofDublin City University Engineering, Science and Medicine
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Denis Parsons Burkitt ,surgeon and researcher into childhood cancer (cf.Burkitt's lymphoma )
*Aeneas Coffey , IrishEngineer , inventor of theCoffey still
*George Francis FitzGerald , Professor of physics
*Oliver St John Gogarty , physician and ear surgeon
*Alexander Henry Haliday , entomologist
*William Rowan Hamilton , Mathematician
*SirJohn MacNeill , civil engineer
*Antoin MacGabhann, Irish architect
*William Molyneux , natural philosopher
*Charles Algernon Parsons , Britishengineer , inventor of the modernsteam turbine
*William Parsons , Astronomer
*William Stokes ,Physician and professor
*Ernest Walton , Nobel Prize winner
*Benjamin Worsley , 17th century physician, surveyor and alchemistHumanities
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Jonathan Bardon , historian
*George Berkeley ,philosopher (cf. subjective idealism)
*J. B. Bury , Irishhistorian and classicist
*William Edward Hartpole Lecky , historian
*John Pentland Mahaffy , polymath
*Nikolai Tolstoy , historianLaw
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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 theSupreme 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 theIrish Supreme Court , former member of theIrish 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 theSupreme Court of Victoria
*Sir Egbert Udo Udoma, justice of theNigerian Supreme Court and Chief Justice of UgandaLiterature
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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 ofMan Booker Prize 2007
*Oliver Goldsmith ,writer andsurgeon
*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 andPoet Laureate
*Trevor White, food critic and author of ""
*Oscar Wilde , Poet, Author, Dramatist author of the "The Importance of Being Earnest"Politics and government
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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 theBurr conspiracy
*Frederick Boland , Irish diplomat and twenty-first Chancellor of the University
*Edmund Burke , philosopher, political theorist, statesman and MP for theBritish 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 laterFine Gael TD
*Robert Emmet , Irish nationalist
*Henry Grattan , member of theIrish House of Commons
*Mary Harney , Irish politician, former leader of the PDs and formerTánaiste , current Minister for Health
*Douglas Hyde , firstPresident of Ireland
*Brian Lenihan, Jnr , Irish politician, current Minister for Finance
*George Macartney, British statesman (1st Earl Macartney)
*Mary McAleese , 8th and currentPresident of Ireland
*Mary Lou McDonald , Irish MEP
*Richard Graves MacDonnell ,Governor of South Australia , Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia andGovernor 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 anddiplomat Religion
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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 theEpiscopal Church in the United States of America
*The Most RevdWilliam Connor Magee , Irish AnglicanArchbishop of York
*Father John Main OSB, Benedictine monk
*BishopJames Ussher ,Primate of All Ireland , noted for (mis)calculating the date of creation as 23 October 4004 BCOther
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Richard Lovell Edgeworth , inventor, father ofMaria Edgeworth
*Half Hung MacNaghten , 18th century gentleman fraudster
*Sally Fegan-Wyles , director ofUNDG ee also
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List of Chancellors of the University of Dublin
*List of Provosts of Trinity College, Dublin
*List of Professorships at the University of Dublin Notes
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