This is a list of notable alumni and faculty members of Trinity College Dublin and the University of Dublin. Armed forces Tom Clonan, retired Irish Army officer, author and security analyst Eyre Coote (1762–1823), Irish British Army soldier and politician; Governor-General of Jamaica (1806–1808) Henry George Gore-Browne (1830–1912), Irish British Army colonial of the 100th Regiment of Foot; awarded the Victoria Cross (circa 1857, while a captain of the 32nd Regiment of Foot) James Murray Irwin (1858–1938), Irish British Army major-general doctor Col. Ernest Achey Loftus, CBE, soldier, teacher and diarist Michael Lynch, MMG (1942–2008), Irish Army officer and recipient of the Military Medal for Gallantry Robert Nairac (1948–1977), English British Army captain; abducted and killed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in 1977; posthumously awarded the George Cross (1979) Robert Ross (1766–1814), Anglo-Irish British Army officer; participated in the Napoleonic Wars (various ranks); commander of the British force which sacked Washington, D.C. and burned down the White House, during the War of 1812 (as major-general) Sir Hovenden Walker (1656/1666–1725/1728), Royal Navy officer Arts Lenny Abrahamson, Oscar-nominated film director Thomas Bateson, 17th-century writer of madrigals Aisling Bea, actress and comedian Cathy Belton, actress John Butler Yeats, artist David Benioff, filmmaker and co-creator of Game of Thrones Michael Bogdanov, theatre director Derbhle Crotty, actress Brian Boydell, composer Selina Cartmell, theatre director, and director of the Gate Theatre Michael Colgan, director of the Gate Theatre, film and television producer Houston Collisson, musician Anne Crookshank, emeritus professor of the history of art and founder of the faculty Chris de Burgh, singer and musician Thomas Manly Deane, architect Pádraic Delaney, actor Donnacha Dennehy, composer Ciarán Farrell, composer Margaret Fiedler, musician and singer Susan Fitzgerald, actress Percy French, songwriter and entertainer Jack Gleeson, actor Constantine Gregory, actor Lisa Hannigan, singer Aaron Heffernan, actor Ciaran Hope, composer of orchestral, choral, and film music Andrew Hozier-Byrne, singer-songwriter Fergus Johnston, composer Dillie Keane, singer-songwriter and actress Lisa Lambe, actress and singer Nathaniel Lande, author, filmmaker and former creative director of Time Jacknife Lee, record producer Allen Leech, actor Damien Leith, singer Eleanor McEvoy, singer-songwriter Katie McGrath, actress Sean Pol McGreevy, actor/musician Paul McGuinness, manager of U2 Pauline McLynn, actress, comedian and novelist Katie McMahon, singer and musician Ruth Negga, actress Jonathon Ng, musician Méav Ní Mhaolchatha, singer Sylvia O'Brien, opera singer David O'Doherty, comedian Rebecca O'Mara, actress Matthew Pilkington, satirist and art historian Laura Pyper, actress Norman Rodway,