- Gaelic football Iarfhlaith Davoren - Association football Daithí Burke - Hurling Niall Burke - Hurling Conor Cleary - Hurling Joe Connolly - Hurling Joseph Cooney - Hurling Anthony Cunningham - Hurling Cyril Farrell - Hurling Pat Fleury - Hurling Francis Forde - Hurling John Hanbury - Hurling Aidan Harte - Hurling Conor Hayes - Hurling Seán Loftus - Hurling Jeffrey Lynskey - Hurling Joe McDonagh - Dual player, Gaelic games administrator and 32nd President of the Gaelic Athletic Association Cathal Mannion - Hurling Pádraic Mannion - Hurling Conor Whelan - Hurling Cian Lynch - Hurling Eoghan Clifford - Paralympic cyclist Cormac Folan - Rower Paul Hession - Sprinter Olive Loughnane - Racewalker Neville Maxwell - Rower Ciaran Fitzgerald - Rugby union Business Nicky Hartery - Chairman of CRH plc Declan Kelly - Founding partner and co-CEO of Teneo Pádraig Ó Céidigh - Airline developer Finance and banking John Hourican - Investment banker; former CEO of Bank of Cyprus Seamus McCarthy - Comptroller and Auditor General Faculty Professor Alan Ahearne - economist working with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) John Breslin - engineering professor and entrepreneur Nicholas Canny - historian and noted authority on early modern Ireland and Britain Ada English - psychiatrist Gerard Jennings - physics professor Thomas Kilroy - playwright, novelist, former Professor of English at the university William King – geologist Joseph Larmor - physicist, Professor at Queen's College Galway 1880-1885 and later Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge Alexander Gordon Melville - Comparative anatomist, Professor at Queen's College Galway 1849-1882 Derek O'Keeffe - Clinical Fellow, selected as Flight Surgeon for Telemedicine for NASA's NEEMO 21: July 21 - August 5, 2016 George Johnstone Stoney - physicist who introduced the term electron as the "fundamental unit quantity of electricity"; first Professor of Science at the then new university; elder brother of Bindon Blood Stoney D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson - Professor of Greek at UCG from 1862 and father of biologist Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson Professor Mike Williams - Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, who between the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami and his death in 2015 became known for his warnings that it was possible for a tsunami to strike Ireland References National University of Ireland Galway +