Trinity College Dublin Admitted Student Profiles & Alumni

Samuel Beckett

Nobel Prize in Literature; playwright and novelist

BA

1927

Oscar Wilde

Writer, wit, poet; “The Picture of Dorian Gray”

BA (Classics)

1874

Mary Robinson

First female President of Ireland; former UN High Commissioner

BA (Law or equivalent)

1964

William C. Campbell

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2015) for work on novel therapies against worms

First Class Honours in Zoology

1952

Michael O’Leary

CEO of Ryanair

BESS Economics & Social Studies

~1983

Aisling Bea

Comedian, actor, and screenwriter

BA (French & Philosophy)

N/A

Jane Grimson

First woman to graduate engineering from Trinity; Professor & Pro-Chancellor

BA, BAI (Engineering)

1970

Mary Corcoran

Professor of Sociology, NUI Maynooth

BESS Sociology & Political Science

1983

Paschal Donohoe

Irish government minister

BESS Political Science & Economics

1996

James Lloyd

Asia-Pacific head for a major financial firm

BESS Political Science & Economics

2003

Jonathan Clynch

Broadcaster / media reporter

BESS Political Science & Sociology

1993

Oisín Coghlan

Director of Friends of the Earth Ireland

BESS Sociology & Political Science

1994

Patricia Deevy

Senior Editor, major publishing company

BA Sociology

1987

Jane Grimson repeats

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Liz Bonnin

Scientist, science communicator and TV presenter

Biochemistry

1992

Samuel Lam

Medical doctor; pioneer in digital radiology

MB BCh Medicine

1963

Eoghan McCabe

Co-founder of Intercom (tech company)

BA Computer Science

2006

Paula Meehan

Poet & playwright

BA English Studies

N/A

Leo Varadkar

Taoiseach (Prime Minister) of Ireland

BA in Politics / Philosophy (or equivalent)

1990s

Veronica Guerin

Investigative journalist

Accounting (or related business field)

Early 1980s