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William Rowan Hamilton
Irish mathematician and astronomer (1805-1865)

Michael Gambon
British actor (1940–2023)

Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener
Irish officer and colonial administrator in the British Army (1850–1916)

Charles Algernon Parsons
inventor of the steam turbine (1854-1931)

Francis Beaufort
Irish hydrographer and naval officer (1774-1857)
Charles Villiers Stanford
Irish composer, music teacher, and conductor (1852–1924)
Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts
British general (1832–1914)

Terry Wogan
Irish radio and television broadcaster (1938–2016)
William Howard Russell
Irish journalist (1820–1907)
William Orpen
Irish artist (1878–1931)
Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava
British public servant and prominent member of Victorian society (1826–1902)
Edward Carson, Baron Carson
Irish politician, barrister and judge (1854-1935)
John Lavery
Irish artist (1856-1941)
Hamilton Harty
Irish composer, conductor, pianist and organist

Leopold McClintock
Irish explorer in the British Royal Navy (1819-1907)
Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo
British Conservative statesman and 4th Viceroy of India (1822–1872)
Alfred Chester Beatty
American copper mining magnate (1875–1968)
George Bowen
British colonial administrator, 9th Governor of Hong Kong, 1st Governor of Queensland (1821-1899)
Hercules Robinson, 1st Baron Rosmead
5th Governor of Hong Kong (1824-1897)
Robert John Kane
Irish chemist (1809-1890)
Charles Gavan Duffy
Irish nationalist, journalist, poet and Australian politician (1816-1903)
Samuel Ferguson
Irish poet, barrister and antiquarian (1810-1886)
Eyre Coote
British Army general (1726-1783)
William FitzGerald, 2nd Duke of Leinster
Irish politician and landowner
Richard Bourke
British Army general and colonial administrator
Richard Church
British and Greek general and Greek politician
George White
British Army officer (1835–1912)
Bryan Mahon
British Army general (1862–1930)
Archibald Nye
British Army general (1895–1967)
Edward Lovett Pearce
Irish architect (1699-1733)
Frederick Barton Maurice
British Army general and writer (1871–1951)

Benjamin Guinness
Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness, 1st Baronet, was an Anglo-Irish brewer and philanthropist.
Hugh Lane
Irish art dealer and collector, known for Hugh Lane gallery (1875-1915)
Tony O'Reilly
Irish businessman and rugby union player (1936-2024)
Reginald Dorman-Smith
British politician (1899-1977)
Reginald Brabazon, 12th Earl of Meath
Irish politician and philanthropist (1841-1929)
William Ellison-Macartney
British politician (1852–1924)
Michael Francis O'Dwyer
British colonial administrator
Horace Plunkett
Irish politician (1854-1932)

Edward Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh
Edward Cecil Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh,, known between May 1885 and January 1891 as Sir Edward Cecil Guinness, 1st Baronet, was an Anglo-Irish businessman and philanthropist. A member of the prominent Guinness family, he was the head of the family's eponymous brewing business, making him the richest person in Ireland. A prominent philanthropist, he is best remembered for his provision of affordable housing in London and Dublin through charitable trusts.
Sir Tim O'Brien, 3rd Baronet
Irish baronet and cricket player of England (1861-1948)
John Stevenson
Irish composer
Charles Gwynn
British Army officer (1870-1962)
Cosmo Haskard
Irish-born British colonial administrator and retired British Army officer (1916-2017)
Robert Bourke, 1st Baron Connemara
British Conservative politician and colonial administrator (1827–1902)
Henry Blackwood
Royal Navy officer

Hamilton Goold-Adams
British diplomat (1858–1920)
Thomas Upington
Prime Minister of the Cape Colony (1844–1898)
John Charles Ardagh
British Army officer (1840-1907)
Denis Pack
(1775-1823)
Maurice FitzGerald, 4th Earl of Kildare
Irish nobleman and Lord Justice of Ireland
Hugh Wheeler
British army officer of the East India Company (1789-1857)
John Gray
Irish physician, surgeon, newspaper proprietor, journalist and politician (1815-1875)
John Brabazon, 10th Earl of Meath
Anglo-Irish peer
Charles Tegart
Police Commissioner of Calcutta, Arab interrogation specialist
Dominick Daly
Governor of Prince Edward Island (1854-1859), and South Australia (1862-1868)