53 Notable alumni of Dublin Institute of Technology
Updated: June 22, 2026 EliteDegrees
Dublin Institute of Technology is ranked #1,628 in the world and #9 in Ireland by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 53 notable alumni from Dublin Institute of Technology sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with Dublin Institute of Technology won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Kevin Humphreys
1958-. (aged 68)
politician
Kevin Humphreys is an Irish former Labour Party politician who served as a Minister of State from 2014 to 2016. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for Dublin South-East from 2011 to 2016 and as a Senator for the Administrative Panel from 2016 to 2020. He briefly served on Fingal County Council from 2024 to 2025.
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2. Pat Casey
1959-. (aged 67)
basketball player
baseball player
Pat Casey is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who has been a senator for the Labour Panel since April 2020. He previously served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Wicklow constituency from 2016 to 2020.
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3. Brendan Ryan
1953-. (aged 73)
politician
Brendan Ryan is an Irish Labour Party politician who served as a Teachta Dála (TD) from 2011 to 2020. He was a Senator for the Administrative Panel from 2007 to 2011.
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4. Eric Byrne
1947-. (aged 79)
politician
Eric Joseph Byrne is an Irish former Labour Party politician who served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin South-Central constituency from 1989 to 1992, 1994 to 1997 and 2011 to 2016.
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5. Jillian van Turnhout
1968-. (aged 58)
politician
Jillian van Turnhout is an Irish children's rights advocate and served as an independent member of Seanad Éireann from 2011 to 2016.
6. Fiona O'Loughlin
1965-. (aged 61)
politician
Fiona O'Loughlin is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who has been a senator for the Administrative Panel since June 2020. She previously served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Kildare South constituency from 2016 to 2020. She also served as Chair of the Committee on Education and Social Protection from 2016 to 2020.
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7. Sinéad Goldrick
1990-. (aged 36)
basketball player
Australian rules football player
Sinéad Goldrick is an Irish dual code footballer, playing at the highest level in both Gaelic football and Australian rules football. She captained Dublin ladies in the 2014 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship final and was a member of the Dublin teams that won the All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship in 2017, 2018 and 2019. She was also a member...
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8. Máire Devine
1972-. (aged 54)
politician
Máire Devine is an Irish Sinn Féin politician who has served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for Dublin South-Central since November 2024. She previously served as a Senator for the Labour Panel from June 2016 to June 2020.
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9. Aoife Dooley
1991-. (aged 35)
comedian
illustrator
writer
Aoife Dooley, is an Irish writer, illustrator, comedian and graphic designer.
10. Catherine Byrne
1956-. (aged 70)
politician
Catherine Byrne is an Irish former Fine Gael politician who served as a Minister of State from 2016 to 2020 and Lord Mayor of Dublin from 2005 to 2006. She served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin South-Central constituency from 2007 to 2020.
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11. John Murray
1964-. (aged 62)
journalist
radio personality
John Murray is an Irish journalist and broadcaster. Currently heard on Weekend Sport, he presented The John Murray Show on RTÉ Radio 1, "focus on lifestyle and entertainment items", filling the slot from 09:00 to 10:00 previously occupied by Ryan Tubridy, who moved to RTÉ 2fm. Murray was one of the presenters of Morning Ireland, Ireland's most popular radio show,...
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12. John Brady
1973-. (aged 53)
carpenter
politician
John Brady is an Irish Sinn Féin politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Wicklow constituency since the 2016 general election. He had been a member of Wicklow County Council from 2011 to 2016 and also a member of Bray Town Council from 2004 to 2014.
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13. Colm Brophy
1973-. (aged 53)
politician
Colm Brophy is an Irish Fine Gael politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin South-West constituency since the 2016 general election. He served as a Minister of State from July 2020 to December 2022 and again since February 2025.
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14. Úna O'Hagan
1962-. (aged 64)
journalist
news presenter
Una O'Hagan is an Irish author, journalist and former newsreader with RTÉ, Ireland's national radio and television station. She presented the main television news programmes Six One News, Nine O'Clock News and One O'Clock News including all other news bulletins on both radio and television. For nine years, from 1996 to 2005, she co-presented the station's flagship news programme Six...
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15. John Lacey
1973-. (aged 53)
rugby union match official
rugby union player
John Lacey is a former Ireland A and Ireland Sevens rugby union international and current rugby union referee. As a player, Lacey spent most of career with Shannon in the All-Ireland League. He also represented Munster. As an international referee he has taken charge of matches in the Six Nations Championship, the Rugby Championship and the Rugby World Cup. He...
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16. Mícheál Mac Donncha
1965-. (aged 61)
politician
Mícheál Mac Donncha is an Irish Sinn Féin politician who served as the Lord Mayor of Dublin from 2017 to 2018. He has been a Dublin City Councillor since 2011.
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17. Imelda Munster
1968-. (aged 58)
politician
Imelda Munster is an Irish former Sinn Féin politician who served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Louth constituency from 2016 to 2024.
18. Denise Mitchell
1976-. (aged 50)
politician
Denise Mitchell is an Irish Sinn Féin politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin Bay North constituency since the 2016 general election.
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19. Brian O’Malley
film director
screenwriter
Brian O'Malley is an Irish film director known for the "spaghetti Western" TV series That Dirty Black Bag which aired on AMC+ in 2022, the Paramount+ TV Series The Ex-Wife which aired in late 2022, and the feature films The Lodgers and Let Us Prey.
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20. Michael Nugent
1961-. (aged 65)
non-fiction writer
activist
Michael Nugent is an Irish writer and activist. He has written, co-written or contributed to seven books and the comedy musical play I, Keano. He has campaigned on many political issues, often with his late wife Anne Holliday, and is chairperson of the advocacy group Atheist Ireland.
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21. Gay Mitchell
1951-. (aged 75)
politician
Gabriel Mitchell is an Irish former Fine Gael politician who served as Minister of State for European Affairs from 1994 to 1997 and Lord Mayor of Dublin from 1992 to 1993. He served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Dublin constituency from 2004 to 2014 and a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin South-Central constituency from...
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22. Mark Daly
1973-. (aged 53)
politician
Mark Daly is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who has served as Cathaoirleach of Seanad Éireann since 12 February 2025. He previously served as Leas-Chathaoirleach of Seanad Éireann from December 2022 to February 2025 and as Cathaoirleach of Seanad Éireann from June 2020 to December 2022. He has served as a senator for the Administrative Panel since July 2007.
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23. Miguel Delaney
journalist
Miguel Delaney is a Spanish-Irish football journalist and author. He is the chief football writer at The Independent.
24. Robert Ballagh
1943-. (aged 83)
painter
postage stamp designer
Robert Ballagh is an Irish artist, painter and designer. Born in suburban Dublin, Ballagh's initial painting style was strongly influenced by pop art. He is also known for his hyperrealistic renderings of Irish literary, historical and establishment figures, or designing more than 70 Irish postage stamps and a series of banknotes, and for work on theatrical sets, including for works...
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25. Damien English
1978-. (aged 48)
politician
Damien English is an Irish former Fine Gael politician who served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Meath West constituency from 2007 to 2024, and previously from 2002 to 2007 for the Meath constituency. He served as Minister of State from 2014 to 2023.
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26. Mick Barry
1964-. (aged 62)
politician
Mick Barry is an Irish People Before Profit–Solidarity politician who was a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork North-Central constituency from 2016 to 2024.
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27. Brian Stanley
1961-. (aged 65)
politician
Brian Stanley is an Irish independent politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Laois constituency since the 2024 general election, and previously from 2016 to 2020. He was a TD for the Laois–Offaly constituency from 2020 to 2024, and previously from 2011 to 2016. He served as Chair of the Public Accounts Committee from July 2020 to...
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28. Proinsias De Rossa
1940-. (aged 86)
politician
Proinsias De Rossa is an Irish former Labour Party politician who served as Minister for Social Welfare from 1994 to 1997, leader of Democratic Left from 1992 to 1999 and leader of the Workers' Party from 1988 to 1992. He served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Dublin constituency from 1989 to 1992 and 1999 to 2012....
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29. Dessie Ellis
1953-. (aged 73)
politician
Desmond Ellis is an Irish Sinn Féin politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin North-West constituency since the 2011 general election. During the 1970s and 1980s Ellis was a member of the Provisional IRA until his arrest in Ireland in 1981. Ellis subsequently fled Ireland before being recaptured in the United States and returned to Irish...
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30. Bryan Dobson
1960-. (aged 66)
journalist
television presenter
Bryan David Dobson is an Irish journalist, now retired, a newscaster and presenter who worked for RTÉ. He presented the RTÉ News at One on RTÉ Radio One, RTÉ News: Six One, RTÉ News: Nine O'Clock, most recently Morning Ireland, and occasionally RTÉ News: One O'Clock.
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31. Emmet Stagg
1944-2024 (aged 80)
politician
Emmet Stagg was an Irish Labour Party politician who served as Labour Party Chief Whip from 2007 to 2016, and as a Minister of State from January 1993 to November 1994 and from December 1994 to June 1997. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) from 1987 to 2016.
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32. Kevin Dundon
chef
Kevin Dundon is an Irish celebrity chef, television personality and author, known for being featured on television series such as Guerrilla Gourmet and Heat. He is the author of the book, Full on Irish: Contemporary Creative Cooking and his recipes have been featured in publications such as the Sunday Tribune and Weekend magazine in the Irish Independent. He has also...
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33. David Gillick
1983-. (aged 43)
motivational speaker
sprinter
association football player
David Gillick is an Irish international track and field athlete. He began his education in Our Lady's Boys School and attended St Benildus College secondary school in Kilmacud. He studied at Dublin Institute of Technology before moving to Loughborough University in the United Kingdom to train as a full-time athlete with coach Nick Dakin. Gillick specialises in the 400 metres...
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34. Todd McCaffrey
1956-. (aged 70)
novelist
science fiction writer
writer
Todd J. McCaffrey is an American science fiction writer known for continuing the Dragonriders of Pern series in collaboration with his mother Anne McCaffrey.
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35. Matt Carthy
1977-. (aged 49)
politician
Matthew Carthy is an Irish Sinn Féin politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cavan–Monaghan constituency since the 2020 general election. He previously served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Midlands–North-West constituency from 2014 to 2020.
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36. Darina Allen
1948-. (aged 78)
cook
author
television personality
Darina Hilda Allen is an Irish chef, food writer, TV personality and founder of Ballymaloe Cookery School.
37. Pearse Doherty
1977-. (aged 49)
politician
Pearse Daniel Doherty is an Irish Sinn Féin politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Donegal constituency since the 2016 general election, and previously a TD for the Donegal South-West constituency from 2010 to 2016. He also previously served as a Senator for the Agricultural Panel from 2007 to 2010.
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38. Alan Joyce
1966-. (aged 60)
chief executive officer
engineer
businessperson
Alan Joseph Joyce is an Irish-Australian businessman. He was the chief executive officer (CEO) of Qantas Airways Limited from 2008 until his resignation on September 5, 2023.
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39. Regina Doherty
1971-. (aged 55)
politician
Regina Doherty is an Irish Fine Gael politician who is a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Dublin constituency since the 2024 European Parliament election. She was a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Meath East constituency from 2011 to 2020. She was the Leader of Fine Gael in the Seanad from 2020 to 2024, serving as leader of...
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40. Paul Gogarty
1968-. (aged 58)
singer
songwriter
politician
Paul Nicholas Gogarty is an Irish independent politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin Mid-West constituency since the 2024 general election. Gogarty was previously a South Dublin County Councillor for Lucan from May 2014 onwards. Before that, Gogarty was a member of the Green Party, and served as a Green Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin...
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41. George Hook
1941-. (aged 85)
journalist
George Hook is an Irish broadcaster, journalist and rugby union pundit. He formerly hosted The Right Hook and High Noon on the Irish radio station Newstalk.
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42. Margaret Ekpo
1914-2006 (aged 92)
women's rights activist
politician
Chief Margaret Ekpo CFR OON // was a Nigerian women's rights activist and social mobilizer who was a pioneering female politician in the country's First Republic and a leading member of a class of traditional Nigerian women activists, many of whom rallied women beyond notions of ethnic solidarity. She played major roles as a grassroots and nationalist politician in the...
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43. Bertie Ahern
1951-. (aged 75)
politician
Bartholomew Patrick "Bertie" Ahern is an Irish former Fianna Fáil politician who served as Taoiseach from 1997 to 2008, and as Leader of Fianna Fáil from 1994 to 2008. A Teachta Dála (TD) from 1977 to 2011, he served as Leader of the Opposition from 1994 to 1997. He was also Lord Mayor of Dublin from 1986 to 1987, Tánaiste...
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44. Brendan Behan
1923-1964 (aged 41)
songwriter
writer
journalist
playwright
poet
Brendan Francis Aidan Behan was an Irish poet, short story writer, novelist, playwright, and Irish Republican, an activist who wrote in both English and Irish. His widely acknowledged alcohol dependence, despite attempts to treat it, impacted his creative capacities and contributed to health and social problems which curtailed his artistic output and finally his life.
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45. Simon Harris
1986-. (aged 40)
politician
Simon Harris is an Irish Fine Gael politician serving as Tánaiste and Minister for Finance since 2025, having previously served as Taoiseach from 2024 to 2025, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade and Minister for Defence from January to November 2025. He has been leader of Fine Gael since 2024 and a TD for the Wicklow constituency since 2011. A...
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46. Stephen Roche
1959-. (aged 67)
sport cyclist
Stephen Roche is an Irish former professional road racing cyclist. In a 13-year professional career, he peaked in 1987, becoming the second of only three male cyclists to win the Triple Crown of victories in the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia general classification, plus the World road race championship, the others being Eddy Merckx and Tadej Pogačar. Roche's...
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47. John Moore
1826-1907 (aged 81)
military officer
John Moore is an Irish film director and producer whose credits include the action war film Behind Enemy Lines and A Good Day to Die Hard.
48. Paul McGinley
1966-. (aged 60)
golfer
Paul Noel McGinley is an Irish professional golfer. He has won four events on the European Tour. At the 2002 Ryder Cup, he famously holed a ten-foot putt on the 18th hole in his match against Jim Furyk at The Belfry which won the Ryder Cup for Europe. He was the winning captain of Europe in the 2014 Ryder Cup...
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49. John Sheahan
1939-. (aged 87)
composer
fiddler
guitarist
singer
John Sheahan is an Irish musician and composer. He joined The Dubliners in 1964 and played with them until 2012 when The Dubliners' name was retired following the death of founding member Barney McKenna. Sheahan is the last surviving member of the definitive lineup of the Dubliners.
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50. Domhnall Gleeson
1983-. (aged 43)
stage actor
film director
director
actor
writer
Domhnall Gleeson is an Irish actor and screenwriter. The son of actor Brendan Gleeson, he studied media arts at the Dublin Institute of Technology. He began his career by directing and writing short films, and garnered a Tony Award nomination in 2006 for his role in the Broadway production The Lieutenant of Inishmore. He had a supporting role in Never...
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51. Becky Lynch
1987-. (aged 39)
actor
professional wrestler
stunt performer
Rebecca Quin, better known by the ring name Becky Lynch, is an Irish and American professional wrestler. She has been signed to WWE since April 2013, where she performs on the Raw brand and is the current WWE Women's Intercontinental Champion in her record-setting second reign. Lynch is often regarded as one of the greatest women's professional wrestlers of all...
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52. Caitríona Balfe
1979-. (aged 47)
film producer
actor
model
Caitríona Mary Balfe is an Irish actress and former model. She began her career as a fashion model in Paris at age 18, working with fashion houses such as Chanel and Louis Vuitton, before transitioning to acting a decade later. Balfe gained early recognition with roles in The Beauty Inside (2012) and H+: The Digital Series (2012–2013), along with appearances...
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53. Vogue Williams
1986-. (aged 40)
actor
television presenter
Vogue Williams is an Irish media personality, presenter and model. After appearing on the reality series Fade Street (2010–2011), she went on to participate in the Australian version of Dancing with the Stars in 2012, as well as appearing on Stepping Out in 2013 and winning the first series Bear Grylls: Mission Survive in 2015. She also fronted several documentaries...
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