Past Pupils

Abrahamson, Lenny (HSD 1973-83), film and television director, IFTA winner, and Oscar nominee

Aikins, Kingsley (HSD 1951-63), president and CEO American Ireland Fund and The Ireland Fund

Alton, Ernest Henry (HSD 1885-92), classical scholar, public representative, and Provost of Trinity College, Dublin (1942-52)

Armstrong, Deirdre (HSD 1978-87), member of the internationally renowned band Kila

Armstrong, Harold Reginald (‘Reg’) (HSD 1940-44), motorcycle champion and businessman

Beattie, John Hugh Marshall (HSD 1927-33), social anthropologist

Burgess, William (HSD 1957-63), former managing director IBM Ireland and IBEC vice-president

Burns, Ian (HSD 1967-74), played for the Irish rugby team, member of the Board of Governors

Citron, Lana (HSD 1982-86), author and script writer

Cox, Nigel (HSD 1966-71), UK diplomat and civil servant

Dagg, Thomas Sidney Charles (HSD 1890-91), civil servant, hockey player, and hockey administrator

D'Arcy, Charles Frederick (HSD 1870-77), clergyman, theologian, botanist, and Archbishop of Armagh (1920-38)

Digges, Joseph Robert Garven (HSD 1871-73), Anglican clergyman and beekeeper

Donaldson, Dr Alex, (HSD 1954-60), veterinary researcher

Duggan, George Chester (HSD 1896-1903), civil servant London and Belfast

Ford, Alan (HSD 1963-76), Professor of Theology University of Nottingham

Ford, David (HSD 1955-66), Regius Professor of Divinity University of Cambridge

Fox, Ian (HSD 1948-1958) broadcaster, music critic, and lecturer

Gillis, Alan (HSD 1948-52) MEP and IFA president

Godsil, Arthur (HSD 1964-1972) former headmaster St Andrew's College, Dublin and education consultant

Govender, S Thiru (HSD 1962-1969) pediatrics professor and clinical associate, University of Calgary

Hamilton, James (HSD 1955-1956) barrister, Director of Public Prosecutions

Hanly, Cuan (HSD 1975-1984) fashion designer

Hinds, Stephen (HSD 1968-1975) Professor Emeritus of Classics University of Washington, Seattle

Hughes, Arthur (HSD 1954-1956) Professor Emeritus of Physics University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, Durban

Hinkson, Henry Albert (HSD 1878-1882), novelist, barrister, and classical scholar

Jeffares, Alexander Norman (HSD 1930-1939), Yeats scholar, writer, professor

Jeffcott, Henry Homan (HSD 1892-1895), engineering professor and civil engineer

Johnston, David Maxwell (HSD 1946-1953) represented Wales against France at schoolboys level in 1955

Kilroy, Howard (HSD 1946-1952) CFO Smurfit Kappa and Governor of the Bank of Ireland

Kilroy, Norman (HSD 1950-1956) former chief executive Grafton Group, former chairman and current member of the Board of Governors

King, Christopher (HSD 1966-1976) mathematics professor, Northeastern University, Boston

King, Desmond (HSD 1966-1975) politics professor and fellow, St John's College, Oxford

Lyttle, Mark (HSD 1971-1981) Irish Champion Yachting and Olympian

Lumsden, Sir John (HSD 1882-1884), physician and founder of the St John's Ambulance Brigade

Lyons, Francis Stewart Leland (HSD 1941), historian and provost of Trinity College, Dublin (1974-81)

Magee, William Kirkpatrick (‘John Eglinton’) (HSD 1881-1886), essayist and librarian

Maunsell, Robert Charles Butler (HSD 1887-1889), doctor, surgeon, president RCSI, lecturer

MacIlwaine, John Bedell Stanford (HSD 1870s), landscape painter and inventor

Mitchell, David Michael (HSD 1920-1927), physician, president RCPI, lecturer

Mitchell, Frank (HSD 1922-1930), environmental historian, archaeologist, geologist, president RIA

Moore-Lewy, Justin (HSD 1981-1986), talent and literary agent, film producer

Montgomery, Rory (HSD 1970-77), diplomat, ambassador, permanent representative to the EU, chair of the Press Council of Ireland

Murphy, Annalise (HSD 2002-08), Irish Champion Yachting and winner of a silver medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Mayers (Ross), Catherine (HSD 1970-1975), Professor of Nursing, Toronto, Canada

McCracken, Brian (HSD 1946-52), barrister, Supreme Court judge, Chairman of the “Payments to Politicians” tribunal 1997

Noblett, William (HSD 1965-71), CBE, Chaplain to the Queen Elizabeth II and King Charles III, former chaplain to the RAF and Chaplain General and Archdeacon of Prisons

Norris, David (HSD 1956-63,) Joyce scholar, independent Senator, and civil rights activist

Nowlan, David (HSD 1946-50), journalist, critic, medical doctor, managing editor Irish Times

Noyek (Noyk), Michael (HSD 1896-1901), solicitor and republican activist

O’Brien, Denis (HSD 1970-76), businessman and entrepreneur, founder and owner of Digicel as well as working with aircraft leasing, utilities support, energy, and healthcare

O'Connell, Frederick William (HSD 1890-95), clergyman and Irish-language scholar

O'Donovan, Grace, (HSD 1970-76), author, lecturer, and ecologist

Ó Seireadáin, Cuan Barra (HSD 1995-2001), musician, curator at Conradh na Gaeilge

O’Sullivan, Chantal (HSD 1975-79), antique dealer with shops in Dublin and New York

Orr, David (HSD 1931-40), businessman, chairman of Unilever and of the British Council

Orr, Phil (HSD 1971-76), Irish rugby international with 58 caps, president of Old Wesley RFC

Robbie, John Cameron (HSD 1967-75) Ireland international rugby union player, TV and radio presenter and commentator

Rodway, Norman (1938-46), accountant, teacher, university lecturer, and actor

Sargent, Trevor (HSD 1970-77), former Green Party politician and Church of Ireland minister

Schouten, Robert (HSD 1966-70), managing director ING Bank Amsterdam

Shatter, Alan (HSD 1960-69), author, solicitor, former TD and Minister for Justice and Equality

Stevenson, Walter Clegg (1888-95), surgeon and pioneer in radium treatment

Thompson, Edward Arthur (1925-32), classicist and historian

Thompson, Simon (HSD 1973-84), headmaster of the British School in Geneva, Switzerland

Thrift, William Edward (18790-89), academic, politician, and Provost of Trinity College

Vaux, Alan (HSD 1962-68) Dean College Liberal Arts, Southern Illinois University

Warnock, William (1922-29), linguist and diplomat

Walton, Bernard (HSD 1966-72) wildlife film and TV producer

Went, David (HSD 1958-65), CEO Irish Life and Permanent

Willis, Robert (HSD 1935-41), director of CRH, Irish Life, and Banque Nationale de Paris

Woods, Stanley (HSD 1915-20), world champion racing motorcyclist

Yeats, William Butler (HSD 1881-83), poet and playwright

Young, Ian (HSD 1975-76), Managing Director Irish International Group