Famous Trinity alumni
Our outstanding alumni include the following world figures:
- Writer Jonathan Swift, author of Gulliver's Travels
- Physicist Ernest Walton who won the Nobel Prize for his work on the atom
- Playwright Samuel Beckett, Nobel Prize for literature
- Philosophers George Berkeley and Edmund Burke
- Mathematician William Rowan Hamilton who discovered Quaternions
- Playwright Oscar Wilde
- Former President of Ireland and current Chancellor of the University of Dublin Mary Robinson
- Former President of Ireland, Mary McAleese