Jabarkan Colm Murray – broadcaster dari Universitas Nasional Irlandia, Galway

Wilfrid Napier – Cardinal, Archbishop of Durban

T. P. O'Connor – journalist

Valentine O'Hara – noted authority on Russia and the Baltic States

Breandán Ó hEithir – writer

Martin Sheen – Hollywood actor, enrolled at NUI Galway in 2006 for one semester to study philosophy, English literature and oceanography

Máire Whelan – Attorney General of Ireland