28 Notable alumni of
Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin
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The Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin is 1762nd in the world, 597th in Europe, and 8th in Ireland by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 28 notable alumni from the Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Michael O'Leary
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- businesspersoneconomistbusiness executiveentrepreneurconsultant
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Michael Kevin O'Leary is an Irish businessman who is the Group CEO of Ryanair. With a net worth of around €848.6 million as of April 2018, he is one of Ireland's wealthiest businesspeople.
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William Rowan Hamilton
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- physicisttheoretical physicistastronomeruniversity teachermathematician
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Sir William Rowan Hamilton was an Irish mathematician and physicist. He was Andrews Professor of Astronomy at Trinity College Dublin.
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Thomas Moore
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- poetsongwriter
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Thomas Moore, was an Irish writer, poet, and lyricist celebrated for his Irish Melodies. His setting of English-language verse to old Irish tunes marked the transition in popular Irish culture from Irish to English. Politically, Moore was recognised in England as a press, or "squib", writer for the aristocratic Whigs; in Ireland he was accounted a Catholic patriot.
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Marian Keyes
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- writernovelistpoet lawyer
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Marian Keyes is an Irish author and radio presenter. She is principally known for her popular fiction.
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William C. Campbell
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- physiologistchemistbiologistuniversity teacherbiochemist
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William Cecil Campbell FRS is an Irish-American microbiologist known for his work in discovering a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworms, for which he was jointly awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He helped to discover a class of drugs called avermectins, whose derivatives have been shown to have "extraordinary efficacy" in treating River blindness and Lymphatic filariasis, among other parasitic diseases affecting animals and humans. Campbell worked at the Merck Institute for Therapeutic Research 1957–1990, and has become a research fellow emeritus at Drew University.
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Shane Ross
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- stockbrokerjournalistpolitician
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Shane Peter Nathaniel Ross is an Irish former Independent politician who served as Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport from May 2016 to June 2020. He was a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin Rathdown constituency from 2016 to 2020, and previously from 2011 to 2016 for the Dublin South constituency. He was a member of Seanad Éireann for the Dublin University from 1981 to 2011, until his election to Dáil Éireann at the 2011 general election.
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James McHenry
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- politicianphysicianstatisticianbusinessperson
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James McHenry was a Scotch-Irish American military surgeon, statesman, and a Founding Father of the United States. McHenry was a signer of the United States Constitution from Maryland, initiated the recommendation for Congress to form the Navy, and was the eponym of Fort McHenry. He represented Maryland in the Continental Congress. He was a delegate to the Maryland State Convention of 1788, to vote whether Maryland should ratify the proposed Constitution of the United States. He served as United States Secretary of War from 1796 to 1800, bridging the administrations of George Washington and John Adams. At the time of his death, McHenry owned 10 slaves, most of whom either worked as household servants or maintained his estate.
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George Noble Plunkett
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- art historianpoliticianbarristerdiplomat
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Count George Noble Plunkett was an Irish nationalist politician, museum director and biographer, who served as Minister for Fine Arts from 1921 to 1922, Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1919 to 1921 and Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann in January 1919. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) from 1918 to 1927. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Roscommon North from 1917 to 1922.
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Mary Chinery-Hesse
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- judgechancellorcivil servant
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Mary Akuokor Chinery-Hesse, FAAS, OSG, née Blay is an international civil servant and diplomat, serving as the first woman Chancellor of the University of Ghana, inducted on 1 August 2018. She was the first female Deputy Director-General of the International Labour Organization She was also the first woman to attain the rank of Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations in the history of the international organisation.
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Harry McNulty
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- rugby sevens playerrugby union player
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Harry McNulty is an Irish former rugby union player. He most notably played for and captained the Ireland national rugby sevens team.
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Frederick McCoy
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- entomologistzoologistbotanistprofessorichthyologist
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Sir Frederick McCoy KCMG FRS, was an Irish palaeontologist, zoologist, and museum administrator, active in Australia. He is noted for founding the Botanic Garden of the University of Melbourne in 1856.
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Robert Stawell Ball
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- university teachermathematicianwriterastronomer
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Sir Robert Stawell Ball FRS was an Irish astronomer who founded the screw theory. He was Royal Astronomer of Ireland at Dunsink Observatory.
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James Cecil Parke
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- golfercricketermilitary officertennis playerrugby union player
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James Cecil Parke was an Irish rugby union player, tennis player, golfer, solicitor and World War I veteran. He became an Olympic silver medallist, Davis Cup champion, Wimbledon Mixed Doubles winner and Australasian Championships winner in both Singles and Doubles. He has often been referred to as Ireland's greatest ever sportsman.
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William Stoddart
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- philosopherphysiciantranslatortheologian
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William Smith Stoddart was a Scottish-Canadian physician, author and spiritual traveller, who wrote several books on the Perennial Philosophy and on comparative religion.
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Joseph Mor Gregorios
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- priest
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Mor Gregorios Joseph is a Syriac Orthodox archbishop, who is currently serving as the Malankara Metropolitan of the Syriac Orthodox Church in India.
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Charles Margai
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- lawyerpolitician
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Charles Francis Kondo Margai is a Sierra Leonean politician and constitutional lawyer who served as Attorney General and Minister of Justice of Sierra Leone in 2018.
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George James Allman
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- university teacherzoologistecologistbotanist
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George James Allman FRS FRSE was an Irish ecologist, botanist and zoologist who served as Emeritus Professor of Natural History at Edinburgh University in Scotland.
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James Henry
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- physicianpoetlatinistclassical philologist
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James Henry was an Irish classical scholar and poet.
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William Irvine
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- judgepoliticianlawyer
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Sir William Hill Irvine GCMG was an Australian politician and judge. He served as Premier of Victoria (1902–1904), Attorney-General of Australia (1913–1914), and Chief Justice of Victoria (1918–1935).
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Stefan Zamoyski
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- politician
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Count Stefan Zamoyski was a Polish nobleman (szlachcic).
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Laurie Winkless
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Ireland - Enrolled in the Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin
- Studied in 2001-2005
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- physicistopinion journalist
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Laurie Winkless is a physicist and science writer. A contributor to Forbes Magazine, she has worked with schools and universities, the Royal Society, and The Naked Scientists.
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Terry P. Hughes
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- university teacherbiologist
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Terence P. Hughes is a professor of marine biology at James Cook University in Queensland, Australia. He is known for research on the global coral bleaching event caused by climate change. Nature dubbed him "Reef sentinel" in 2016 for the global role he plays in applying multi-disciplinary science to securing reef sustainability. He is an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow and Director of the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies. His research interests encompass coral reef ecology, macroecology and evolution, as well as social-ecological interactions. His recent work has focused on marine ecology, macroecology, climate change, identifying safe planetary boundaries for human development, and on transformative governance of the sea in Australia, Chile, China, the Galapagos Islands, Gulf of Maine and the Coral Triangle. His career citations in Google Scholar exceed 88,000.
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Hugh M‘Neile
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- priest
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Hugh Boyd M‘Neile was a well-connected and controversial Irish-born Calvinist Anglican of Scottish descent.
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Ruth Lewis
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- missionarycollector
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Ruth, Lady Herbert Lewis, OBE was an English temperance movement activist of Manx descent and collector of Welsh folk songs. She published collections of Welsh folk songs, and was a key member of the Welsh Folk-Song Society in the first half of the 20th century.
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Gerald Edward O'Kelly de Gallagh et Tycooly
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- diplomat
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Count Gerald Edward O'Kelly de Gallagh et Tycooly was an Irish diplomat and the third of the seven sons of Count John Appleyard O'Kelly.
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Caesar Litton Falkiner
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- barristerpoliticianhistorian
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Caesar Litton Falkiner was an Irish Unionist Party politician, barrister and a writer on literary and historical topics.
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Sir Norbert Michael Keenan
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- politicianbarrister
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Sir Norbert Michael Keenan QC was an Australian lawyer and politician who was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1905 to 1911 and again from 1930 to 1950. He was the leader of the Nationalist Party from 1933 to 1938, during the time when it was the junior partner in the coalition with the Country Party. Keenan had earlier served as a minister in the government of Newton Moore (as attorney-general) and the second government of Sir James Mitchell.
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Ada Gertrude Paterson
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- physician
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Ada Gertrude Paterson was a New Zealand school medical doctor, child health administrator and community worker.
