Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton was an Irish physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics who first split the atom. He is best known for his work with John Cockcroft to construct one of the earliest types of particle accelerator, the Cockcroft–Walton generator. In experiments performed at Cambridge University in the early 1930s using the generator, Walton and Cockcroft became the first team to use a particle beam to transform one element to another. According to their Nobel Prize citation: "Thus, for the first time, a nuclear transmutation was produced by means entirely under human control".
Walter Travers was an English Puritan theologian who served as the 2nd Provost of Trinity College Dublin from 1594 to 1598. He was also at one time chaplain to William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, and tutor to his son Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, who both served Queen Elizabeth I during her reign.
Ernest Alfred Benians was a British academic and historian.
Peter Kendrew Fox is a British professional librarian. After eight years service in Cambridge University Library he moved to Dublin as deputy librarian of Trinity College in 1979; in 1984 he became College Librarian and Archivist. He became Librarian of the Cambridge University Library in 1994, a position he held for 15 years until his retirement in 2009. He has served on many public bodies concerned with libraries and archives. He was educated at King's College London ; the University of Sheffield ; Selwyn College, Cambridge and MA Dublin, 1984. In 2019, he was made an honorary fellow of Trinity College Dublin.
Arthur Smyth was Archbishop of Dublin from 1766 until his death in 1771.
'Michael Ward (1643-1681) was an English 17th-century Anglican bishop and academic who served as the 12th Provost of Trinity College Dublin from 1675 to 1678.
James Stopford was Bishop of Cloyne from 1753 until his death in Dublin on 23 August 1759: he had previously been Provost of Tuam, Archdeacon of Killaloe and Dean of Kilmacduagh.
Nicholas Synge was an 18th-century Irish Anglican priest.
Robert Johnson was an Anglican bishop in Ireland during the mid-18th century.
Anthony Martin was an Anglo-Irish Anglican priest who served as Provost of Trinity College Dublin from 1645 to 1650. during the first half of the 17th-century.
William Cotterell (c.1698–1744) was an eighteenth-century Church of Ireland priest. He was the third son of the courtier Charles Lodowick Cotterell and his second wife, Elizabeth Chute.
Henry Alvey was an English Anglican bishop who served as the 3rd Provost of Trinity College, Dublin and President of St John's College, Cambridge from 1590 to 1601.
Gabriel Maturin, D.D. was an Irish Anglican Dean.
Pascal Ducasse was a Church of Ireland Dean in the first half of the 18th century.
John Sandwith Boys Smith was a 20th-century British priest and academic.
John Scott was an Irish Anglican priest in the last decade of the 18th century and the first three of the 19th.
John Ryder was an Irish Anglican priest in the 18th-century.
John Creighton, was a 17th-century Anglican Dean in Ireland.
Robert King (1723–1787) was an 18th-century Anglican priest in Ireland.
Luke Challoner, DD (1550-1613) was an Irish academic.
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