# List of provosts of Trinity College Dublin

The following persons have been provost of Trinity College Dublin.
List of provosts of Trinity College Dublin :
| No. | Name | Tenure | Lifetime | Notes |
| 1 | Adam Loftus | 1592–1594 | c.1533–1605 | Also was Archbishop of Armagh, Archbishop of Dublin and Lord Chancellor of Ireland. |
| 2 | Walter Travers | 1594–1598 | c.1548–1634 | |
| 3 | Henry Alvey | 1601–1609 | | |
| 4 | Sir William Temple | 1609–1627 | c.1555–1627 | |
| 5 | William Bedell | 1627–1629 | c.1571–1642 | Later became Bishop of Kilmore and Ardagh in 1629. |
| 6 | Robert Ussher | 1629–1634 | | Later became Bishop of Kildare 1636–1642. |
| 7 | William Chappell | 1634–1640 | c.1582–1649 | Also was Bishop of Cork and Ross 1638–1649. |
| 8 | Richard Washington | 1640–1641 | |
| 9 | Anthony Martin | 1645–1650 | d. 1650 | Also was Bishop of Meath 1625–1650 |
| 10 | Samuel Winter | 1652–1660 | c.1603–1666 | |
| 11 | Thomas Seele | 1661–1675 | c.1611–1675 | Also was Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin 1666–1675 |
| 12 | Michael Ward | 1674–1678 | c.1643–1681 | Later became Bishop of Ossory in 1678, transferred to Derry in 1680. |
| 13 | Narcissus Marsh | 1679–1683 | c.1638–1713 | Later became Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin 1683, then Archbishop of Cashel in 1690, Archbishop of Dublin in 1694, and Archbishop of Armagh in 1703. |
| 14 | Robert Huntington | 1683–1692 | c.1636–1701 | Later became Bishop of Raphoe from July to September 1701. In Huntington's absence from 1688, James II appointed Michael Moore, Catholic vicar-general of Dublin, as head of the college for a short period from 1689 until 1690; noted for along with the librarian Fr. McCarthy, protecting the library from pillage and burning. He was later Rector of the University of Paris. |
| 15 | St George Ashe | 1692–1695 | c.1658–1718 | Later became bishop of Cloyne in 1695, translated to Clogher in 1697, and finally to Derry in 1717. |
| 16 | George Browne | 1695–1699 | c.1649–1699 | |
| 17 | Peter Browne | 1699–1710 | c.1665–1735 | Later became Bishop of Cork and Ross 1710–1735. |
| 18 | Benjamin Pratt | 1710–1717 | c.1669–1721 | Later became Dean of Down 1717–1721. |
| 19 | Richard Baldwin | 1717–1758 | c.1668–1758 | |
| 20 | Francis Andrews | 1758–1774 | c.1718–1774 | He left £3,000 to found the Dunsink Observatory and the Andrews chair of astronomy. |
| 21 | John Hely-Hutchinson | 1774–1794 | c.1724–1794 | |
| 22 | Richard Murray | 1795–1799 | c.1726–1799 | |
| 23 | John Kearney | 1799–1806 | c.1742–1813 | Later became Bishop of Ossory 1806–1813. |
| 24 | George Hall | 1806–1811 | c.1753–1811 | Later became Bishop of Dromore 17–23 November 1811. |
| 25 | Thomas Elrington | 1811–1820 | c.1760–1835 | Later became Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe in 1820, then translated to Ferns and Leighlin in 1822. |
| 26 | Samuel Kyle | 1820–1831 | c.1771–1848 | Later became Bishop of Cork and Ross 1831–1835, and Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross 1835–1848 |
| 27 | Bartholomew Lloyd | 1831–1837 | c.1772–1837 | |
| 28 | Franc Sadleir | 1837–1851 | c.1774–1851 | |
| 29 | Richard MacDonnell | 1851–1867 | c.1787–1867 | |
| 30 | Humphrey Lloyd | 1867–1881 | c.1800–1881 | |
| 31 | John Hewitt Jellett | 1881–1888 | c.1817–1888 | |
| 32 | George Salmon | 1888–1904 | c.1819–1904 | Also was Chancellor of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin 1871–1904. |
| 33 | Anthony Traill | 1904–1914 | c.1838–1914 | |
| 34 | Sir John Pentland Mahaffy | 1914–1919 | c.1839–1919 | |
| 35 | John Henry Bernard | 1919–1927 | c.1860–1927 | Formerly Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin 1902–1911, Bishop of Ossory, Ferns and Leighlin 1911–1915, and Archbishop of Dublin 1915–1919. |
| 36 | Edward John Gwynn | 1927–1937 | c.1868–1941 | |
| 37 | William Thrift | 1937–1942 | c.1870–1942 | TD for Dublin University 1921–1937 |
| 38 | Ernest Alton | 1942–1952 | c.1873–1952 | TD for Dublin University 1921–1937, Senator for Dublin University 1938–1943 |
| 39 | Albert Joseph McConnell | 1952–1974 | 1903–1993 | |
| 40 | F. S. L. Lyons | 1974–1981 | 1923–1983 | |
| 41 | William Arthur Watts | 1981–1991 | 1930–2010 | |
| 42 | Thomas Mitchell | 1991–2001 | b. 1939 | First Catholic to be Provost since Michael Moore in 1690. |
| 43 | John Hegarty | 2001–2011 | | |
| 44 | Patrick Prendergast | 2011–2021 | | |
| 45 | Linda Doyle | 2021– | | elected 10 April 2021 to take office 1 August 2021. First woman elected provost. |