List of University College Dublin people
This is a very incomplete list of some notable alumni and some faculty members of University College Dublin a constituent university of the National University of Ireland.
Literary
- James Joyce
- Flann O'Brien
- Marina Carr
- Austin Clarke
- Conor McPherson
- John McGahern
- Frank McGuinness
- Kate O'Brien
- Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Emma Donoghue
- Mary Lavin
- Desmond Hogan
- Ulick O'Connor
- Trevor Joyce
- Roddy Doyle
- William Wall
- Brian Coffey
- Keith Ridgway
- Denis Devlin
- Thomas Kilroy
- Colm Tóibín
- Eamon Delaney
- Sean O'Faolain
- Maeve Binchy
- Emily O'Reilly
- Brian Cleeve
- Seymour Butts "A tear from my brown eye"
Journalism
Business
- Peter Sutherland
- Niall FitzGerald
- Tony O'Reilly
- Denis O'Brien
- David J. O'Reilly Chairman and CEO of Chevron Corporation.
Politics and government
- Douglas Hyde (1st President of Ireland)
- Éamon de Valera (3rd President of Ireland, 1st Taoiseach of Ireland)
- Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh (5th president of Ireland)
- Patrick Hillery (6th President of Ireland)
- John A. Costello (2nd Taoiseach of Ireland)
- Charles Haughey (6th Taoiseach of Ireland)
- Garret FitzGerald (7th Taoiseach of Ireland)
- John Bruton (9th Taoiseach of Ireland)
- V V Giri (4th President of India)
- Charlie McCreevy (Current European Commissioner for Internal Market & Services)
- Joe Higgins (Former Socialist Party TD)
- Brian Lenihan
- Kevin O'Higgins
- James Ryan
- Éamon Ó Cuív
- Síle de Valera
- Séamus Brennan
- Mary Coughlan
- Dermot Ahern
- Brian Cowen
- Michael McDowell (Former Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform)
- David Andrews
- Michael Woods
- Michael Noonan
- Noel Dempsey
- Nora Owen
- Michael Kitt
- Richard Bruton
- Alan Dukes
- Mary O'Rourke
- Francis Skeffington
- Mella Carroll
- John L. Murray
- Hugh Kennedy
- Thomas MacDonagh
- Patrick Pearse
- Kevin Barry
- Catherine Day (Secretary-General of the European Commission)
- Ryan Crocker (Current United States Ambassador to Iraq)
Academic
- Eoin MacNeill (Irish scholar)
- Thomas Preston (physicist)
- J.A. McClelland (physicist)
- Arthur W. Conway (physicist)
- Thomas Kettle (economist)
- Robert Dudley Edwards (historian)
- John Coakley (political scientist)
- Anthony Clare (psychiatrist)
- James Dooge (engineer)
- Remi Chandran (Researcher)
Arts
Clergy
- Desmond Connell (Cardinal, Archbishop of Dublin)
- John Henry Newman (Cardinal, educator, writer)
- Diarmuid Martin (Archbishop of Dublin)
- Tomás Ó Fiaich (Cardinal, Archbishop of Armagh)
- Father Fingers (Tallaght Creche)
Sport
- Brian O'Driscoll
- Kevin O'Flanagan
- Jason Sherlock
- Michelle Smith
- Derval O'Rourke
- Denis Hickie
- Cillian Willis
- Glyn Evans Muff Diving Champion 2007
Entertainment
Notable Faculty: Present
- Professor Hugh Brady
- Dr Gerard Casey
- Professor Terence Dolan
- Professor James J. Heckman
- Professor Mark Keane
- Professor Declan Kiberd
- Dr Moore McDowell
- Dr Frank McGuinness
- Professor Stephen Mennell
- Professor Edna O'Brien
- Professor Joseph Watson