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List of scholars of Trinity College Dublin

This is a list of individuals elected as Scholars of Trinity College Dublin. Described by Trinity College as "the most prestigious undergraduate award in the country", Foundation Scholarship ("Schols") examinations have been held annually at Trinity since its establishment in 1592.

Arts and entertainment
Lenny Abrahamson (Mental and Moral Science, 1988), Oscar-nominated film director. • Samuel Beckett (Modern Languages, 1926), dramatist and Nobel laureate. • George Jackson (Music, 2007), conductor. • Matthew Pilkington (Classics, 1721), satirist and art historian. • Norman Rodway (Classics, 1948), actor. ==Broadcasting and journalism==
Broadcasting and journalism
James David Bourchier (Classics, 1871), Balkans correspondent for The Times, advisor to Tzar Ferdinand of Bulgaria. • Douglas Gageby (Modern Languages, 1940), editor of The Irish Times. • Mary Mulvihill (Natural Sciences, 1979), science journalist and broadcaster. • Helen Joyce (Mathematics, 1989), finance editor and international editor of The Economist. ==Economics and public policy==
Economics and public policy
George Alexander Duncan (Classics, 1920), economist and Pro-Chancellor of the University of Dublin. • Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (1865), economist who made significant contributions to the methods of statistics and founding editor of The Economic Journal. • W. M. Gorman (Mathematics, 1943), economist and mathematician. The Gorman Prize, for the highest grades in the MSc in Economics at Trinity, is named in his honour. • John Kells Ingram (Mathematics, 1840), economist, poet, and mathematician. • Morgan Kelly (Economic and Social Studies 1982), economist and economic historian. Probably most note-worthy predictor of the Irish economic crisis and the Irish property bubble; he wrote on ECB and Irish Government response to it. • Philip R. Lane (Economics and Social Studies, 1989), Chief Economist of the European Central Bank. Previously Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland and former holder of the Whately Chair of Political Economy. • Michael McMahon (Economics and Social Studies, 1998), Professor of Economics at Oxford University and Fellow of St. Hugh's College. • Kevin O'Rourke (Economics and Mathematics, 1982), economic historian, Professor of Economics at NYU Abu Dhabi and former Chichele Professor of Economic History, All Souls College, Oxford. ==Education==
Education
Richard Stack (died 1812), an Irish author ==Humanities and political science==
Humanities and political science
James Auchmuty (Modern History and Political Science, 1929), historian, wartime MI6 propagandist, inaugural vice-chancellor, University of Newcastle, Australia. • J. B. Bury (Classics, 1879), Byzantine scholar, Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University and mentor to Steven Runciman. • Mary Elmes (Modern Literature (French and Spanish), 1931), Irish aid worker that was honoured as Righteous Among the Nations for saving the lives of more than 200 Jewish children during the Second World War. She also won the gold medal at Trinity. • R. F. Foster (History and Political Science, 1969), historian. • Norman Jeffares (Classics, 1941), literary scholar. Father of Humphrey Lloyd, also a scholar and Provost of Trinity. • George Green Loane (Classics, 1889), classical scholar • John V. Luce (Classics, 1939), classical scholar. • F. S. L. Lyons (Modern History and Political Science, 1943), historian and Provost of Trinity College Dublin. • R. B. McDowell (Modern History and Political Science, 1936), historian. • Brendan Simms (History, 1986), Professor of the History of International Relations, Cambridge University. • Calder Walton, historian and current Ernest May Fellow in History and Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government. • James Whitelaw (Classics, 1769), historian, writer, statistician and philanthropist. • George Newenham Wright (Classics, 1812), writer and clergyman. ==Law, politics and government==
Law, politics and government
Ernest Alton (Classics, 1894), Irish politician, university professor, and Provost of Trinity College Dublin. • Francis Blackburne (Classics, 1801), Lord Chancellor of Ireland. • Roy Bradford (Modern Languages, 1940), Ulster Unionist Party MP. • Declan Budd (Modern History and Political Science, 1964), High Court judge. • Conor Cruise O'Brien (Modern Languages, 1937), politician, writer and academic. • William Greatrakes (Classics, 1744), barrister and supposed author of the Letters of Junius, which openly criticised the government of King George III. • Dodgson Hamilton Madden (1860), Irish Unionist Party MP. • Denis Caulfield Heron (Classics, 1845), lawyer barred from taking up his scholarship due to his Catholicism. • • Sir James Hogg, 1st Baronet (Classics, 1808), Conservative MP, director and chairman of the East India Company. • Hugh Law (Classics, 1837), Lord Chancellor of Ireland. • James Anthony Lawson (Classics, 1836), lawyer, judge and Attorney-General for Ireland. • Brian Lenihan Jnr (Legal Science, 1979), politician and former Minister for Finance during the Irish economic downturn. • Mary Robinson (Legal Science, 1965), former President of Ireland and United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. • William Thrift (Mathematics, 1890), Irish politician, university professor, and Provost of Trinity College Dublin. • John Edward Walsh (Classics, 1835), barrister, Conservative MP and Attorney-General for Ireland. Son of Robert Walsh, also a scholar. • Arthur Wolfe, 1st Viscount Kilwarden (Classics, 1755), politician and Lord Chief Justice of Ireland. ==Mathematics and science==
Mathematics and science
William Allman (Classics, 1795), botanist. • Robert Stawell Ball (Mathematics, 1859), astronomer. • John Casey (Mathematics, 1861), mathematician specialising in Euclidean geometry. • David Conlon (Mathematics, 2001), combinatorist. • Neil O'Connell (Mathematics, 1987), probabilist. • Thomas Romney Robinson (Classics, 1808), astronomer and physicist. Awarded his scholarship aged fourteen. • Robert Henry Scott (Classics, 1853), meteorology and President of the Royal Meteorological Society. • David J. Simms (Mathematics, 1952), mathematician. • Anthony Traill (Mathematics, 1858), Provost of Trinity College Dublin. • Henry Ussher (Classics, 1759), astronomer. • Ernest Walton (Mathematics, 1924), physicist and Nobel Prize winner. • William Arthur Watts (Modern Languages, 1950), botanist and Provost of Trinity College Dublin. • Trevor West (Mathematics, 1958), mathematician and senator. • Barbara Gertrude Yates (Mathematics, 1940) mathematician. • Joseph Ó Ruanaidh (Engineering, 1988) ==Religion==
Religion
Theophilus Bolton (Classics, 1695), Church of Ireland bishop. • Roger Boyle (Classics, 1638), Church of Ireland bishop. • William Daniel (Classics, 1594), Church of Ireland archbishop. One of the first appointed scholars. • Charles D'Arcy (Mathematics, 1880), Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin. • Patrick Delany (Classics, 1704), theologian. • Thomas Elrington (Classics, 1778), Church of Ireland bishop, theologian, mathematician and Provost of Trinity College Dublin. • David F. Ford (Classics, 1968), Regius Professor of Divinity, Cambridge University. • Charles Graves (Classics, 1832), Church of Ireland bishop, president of the Royal Irish Academy and noted mathematician. • Robert Perceval Graves (Classics, 1830), Irish biographer and clergyman • George Hamond (Classics, 1637), ejected nonconformist minister. • Arthur Kenney (Classics, 1793), Church of Ireland clergyman. • Richard Frederick Littledale (Classics, 1852), Church of Ireland clergyman. • Richard Mant (Classics, 1794), Church of Ireland bishop. • Henry McAdoo (Modern Languages, 1936), Church of Ireland clergyman. • William Reeves (Classics, 1833), Church of Ireland bishop and antiquary. • Philip Skelton (Classics, 1726), Church of Ireland clergyman and writer. • George Simms (Classics, 1930), Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin. • Joseph Stock (Classics, 1759), Church of Ireland bishop. • William Tisdall (Classics, 1692), Church of Ireland clergyman and writer. • James Ussher (Classics, 1594), Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland. One of the first appointed scholars. ==Sports==
Sports
Hugo MacNeill (Economic and Social Studies, 1979), former Irish rugby international and British and Irish Lions player. • Louise Moriarty (Engineering, 2000), Irish racing cyclist. ==In popular culture==
In popular culture
In Sally Rooney's 2018 novel Normal People, set in Trinity, the two protagonists are elected scholars - Connell in English, and Marianne in History and Political Science. Rooney is a former scholar, as is Lenny Abrahamson, who directed the TV series based on the novel. ==See also==
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