28 Notable alumni of
Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin

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The Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin is 1868th in the world, 623rd 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.

  1. Michael O'Leary

    Michael O'Leary
    Born in
    Ireland Flag Ireland
    Years
    1961-.. (age 63)
    Occupations
    entrepreneurbusiness executiveeconomistbusinesspersonconsultant
    Biography

    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 businessmen.

  2. William Rowan Hamilton

    William Rowan Hamilton
    Born in
    Ireland Flag Ireland
    Years
    1805-1865 (aged 60)
    Occupations
    university teacherastronomertheoretical physicistphysicistacademic
    Biography

    Sir William Rowan Hamilton MRIA, FRAS was an Irish mathematician, astronomer, and physicist. He was the Andrews Professor of Astronomy at Trinity College Dublin, and Royal Astronomer of Ireland, living at Dunsink Observatory.

  3. Thomas Moore

    Thomas Moore
    Born in
    Ireland Flag Ireland
    Years
    1779-1852 (aged 73)
    Occupations
    songwriterpoet
    Biography

    Thomas Moore, also known as Tom 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.

  4. Marian Keyes

    Marian Keyes
    Born in
    Ireland Flag Ireland
    Years
    1963-.. (age 61)
    Occupations
    poet lawyerwriter
    Biography

    Marian Keyes is an Irish author and radio presenter. She is principally known for her popular fiction.

  5. William C. Campbell

    William C. Campbell
    Born in
    Ireland Flag Ireland
    Years
    1930-.. (age 94)
    Occupations
    university teacherbiologistchemistphysiologistparasitologist
    Biography

    William Cecil Campbell is an Irish biologist and parasitologist with United States citizenship, 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 is currently a research fellow emeritus at Drew University.

  6. Shane Ross

    Shane Ross
    Born in
    Ireland Flag Ireland
    Years
    1949-.. (age 75)
    Occupations
    journaliststockbrokerpolitician
    Biography

    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.

  7. George Noble Plunkett

    George Noble Plunkett
    Born in
    Ireland Flag Ireland
    Years
    1851-1948 (aged 97)
    Occupations
    barristerpoliticianart historiandiplomat
    Biography

    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.

  8. Saya Zawgyi

    Saya Zawgyi
    Born in
    Myanmar Flag Myanmar
    Years
    1907-1990 (aged 83)
    Occupations
    translatorhistorianwritercritic
    Biography

    Zawgyi was a distinguished and leading Burmese poet, author, literary historian, critic, scholar and academic. His name, Zawgyi, refers to a mythical wizard from Burmese mythology. He was one of the leaders of the Hkit san (Testing the Times) movement in Burmese literature searching for a new style and content before the Second World War, along with Theippan Maung Wa, Nwe Soe and Min Thu Wun. His first hkit san poetry, Padauk pan (Padauk flower), was published in Hantha Kyemon pamphlet.

  9. Mary Chinery-Hesse

    Mary Chinery-Hesse
    Born in
    Ghana Flag Ghana
    Years
    1938-.. (age 86)
    Occupations
    chancellorjudgecivil servant
    Biography

    Mary Chinery-Hesse,, 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

  10. Frederick McCoy

    Frederick McCoy
    Born in
    Ireland Flag Ireland
    Years
    1817-1899 (aged 82)
    Occupations
    ichthyologistprofessorbotanistzoologistentomologist
    Biography

    Sir Frederick McCoy, 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.

  11. Robert Stawell Ball

    Robert Stawell Ball
    Born in
    Ireland Flag Ireland
    Years
    1840-1913 (aged 73)
    Occupations
    astronomerwritermathematicianuniversity teacher
    Biography

    Sir Robert Stawell Ball was an Irish astronomer who founded the screw theory. He was Royal Astronomer of Ireland at Dunsink Observatory.

  12. James Cecil Parke

    James Cecil Parke
    Born in
    Ireland Flag Ireland
    Years
    1881-1946 (aged 65)
    Occupations
    tennis playermilitary officercricketergolferrugby union player
    Biography

    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.

  13. Harry McNulty

    Harry McNulty
    Born in
    Bahrain Flag Bahrain
    Years
    1993-.. (age 31)
    Occupations
    rugby union playerrugby sevens player
    Biography

    Harry McNulty is an Irish rugby union player who currently plays for the LA Giltinis of Major League Rugby (MLR). He also plays as a forward for the Ireland national rugby sevens team.

  14. William Stoddart

    William Stoddart
    Born in
    United Kingdom Flag United Kingdom
    Years
    1925-2023 (aged 98)
    Occupations
    translatorphysicianphilosophertheologian
    Biography

    William Smith Stoddart was a Scottish-Canadian physician, author and "spiritual traveller", who wrote several books on the Perennial Philosophy and on comparative religion.

  15. Charles Margai

    Charles Margai
    Born in
    Sierra Leone Flag Sierra Leone
    Years
    1945-.. (age 79)
    Occupations
    politicianlawyer
    Biography

    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.

  16. George James Allman

    George James Allman
    Born in
    Ireland Flag Ireland
    Years
    1812-1898 (aged 86)
    Occupations
    zoologistuniversity teacherbotanistecologist
    Biography

    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.

  17. James Henry

    James Henry
    Born in
    Ireland Flag Ireland
    Years
    1798-1876 (aged 78)
    Occupations
    latinistpoetphysicianclassical philologist
    Biography

    James Henry was an Irish classical scholar and poet.

  18. Joseph Mor Gregorios

    Joseph Mor Gregorios
    Born in
    India Flag India
    Years
    1960-.. (age 64)
    Occupations
    priest
    Biography

    Mor Gregorios Joseph is a Syriac Orthodox archbishop and currently the Malankara Metropolitan of the Syriac Orthodox Church in India.

  19. William Irvine

    William Irvine
    Born in
    United Kingdom Flag United Kingdom
    Years
    1858-1943 (aged 85)
    Occupations
    politicianjudgelawyer
    Biography

    Sir William Hill Irvine 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).

  20. Stefan Zamoyski

    Stefan Zamoyski
    Born in
    Italy Flag Italy
    Years
    1837-1899 (aged 62)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Count Stefan Zamoyski was a Polish nobleman (szlachcic).

  21. Laurie Winkless

    Laurie Winkless
    Born in
    Ireland Flag Ireland
    Enrolled in the Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin
    Studied in 2001-2005
    Occupations
    opinion journalistphysicist
    Biography

    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.

  22. Terry P. Hughes

    Terry P. Hughes
    Born in
    Ireland Flag Ireland
    Years
    1956-.. (age 68)
    Occupations
    biologistuniversity teacher
    Biography

    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.

  23. Ruth Lewis

    Ruth Lewis
    Born in
    United Kingdom Flag United Kingdom
    Years
    1871-1946 (aged 75)
    Occupations
    collectormissionary
    Biography

    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.

  24. Hugh M‘Neile

    Hugh M‘Neile
    Born in
    United Kingdom Flag United Kingdom
    Years
    1795-1879 (aged 84)
    Occupations
    priest
    Biography

    Hugh Boyd M‘Neile was a well-connected and controversial Irish-born Calvinist Anglican of Scottish descent.

  25. Gerald Edward O'Kelly de Gallagh et Tycooly

    Gerald Edward O'Kelly de Gallagh et Tycooly
    Born in
    Ireland Flag Ireland
    Years
    1880-1968 (aged 88)
    Occupations
    diplomat
    Biography

    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.

  26. Caesar Litton Falkiner

    Caesar Litton Falkiner
    Born in
    Ireland Flag Ireland
    Years
    1863-1908 (aged 45)
    Occupations
    historianpoliticianbarrister
    Biography

    Caesar Litton Falkiner was an Irish Unionist Party politician, barrister and a writer on literary and historical topics.

  27. Sir Norbert Michael Keenan

    Sir Norbert Michael Keenan
    Born in
    Ireland Flag Ireland
    Years
    1864-1954 (aged 90)
    Occupations
    barristerpolitician
    Biography

    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.

  28. Ada Gertrude Paterson

    Ada Gertrude Paterson
    Born in
    New Zealand Flag New Zealand
    Years
    1880-1937 (aged 57)
    Occupations
    physician
    Biography

    Ada Gertrude Paterson was a New Zealand school medical doctor, child health administrator and community worker.