Science, Education and Technology
- Robert Adrain (1775–1843) – scientist, mathematician and United Irishman
- Thomas Andrews – chemist & physicist
- Francis Beaufort (1774–1857) – hydrographer, developed a scale for classifying wind strength
- John Stewart Bell (1928–1990) – atomic physicist, 'Bell's Inequalities'
- John Desmond Bernal (1901–1971) – X-ray crystallography
- George Boole (1815–1864) – inventor of Boolean algebra
- Robert Boyle (162 –1691) – physicist, 'Boyle's law'
- Louis Brennan (1852–1932) – principle of a guided missile, wire-guided torpedo
- Pádraig de Brún (1889–1960) – scholar and mathematician
- Lucien Bull (1876–1972) – high speed photography, modern electrocardiogram (ECG)
- Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1943– ) – discovered pulsars
- Nicholas Callan (1799–1864) – inventor of the induction coil and discoverer the principle of the dynamo
- Aeneas Coffey (1780–1852) – heat exchanger, inventor of the column still
- William Monad Crawford – entomologist
- William Dargan – railway engineer
- David Doak (b. 1967) - scientist, video game developer and entrepreneur
- Shane Curran - software developer, entrepreneur
- Frederick G. Donnan – chemist
- Michael Everson – expert in writing systems and Unicode, born in USA
- Harry Ferguson – engineer, designer of the modern farm tractor, inventor of the three-point hitch
- George FitzGerald (1851–1901) – theoretical physicist, 'Fitzgerald-Lorenz Contraction'
- John Robert Gregg (1868–1948) – Gregg shorthand system
- William Rowan Hamilton – quaternions; mathematical physics
- John Philip Holland (1841–1914) – submarine designer
- Ellen Hutchins (1785–1815) – botanist
- John Joly (1857–1933)- photometer, colour photography
- Richard Kirwan (1733–1812) – meteorologist
- Robert Mallet (1810–1881) – seismology
- Alexander Mitchell (1780–1868) – lighthouse and marine engineer
- Richard O'Keefe – computer scientist
- Frank Pantridge – Inventor of the mobile defibrilator
- Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (1819–1903) – mathematician, physicist, 'Stokes Theorem' and Stokes-Navier Equations'
- George Johnstone Stoney (1826–1911) – atomic physicist, named the 'electron' and measured its charge
- John Lighton Synge (1897–1995) – mathematician
- William Thomson – Lord Kelvin (1824–1907), physicist
- John Tyndall (1820–1893) – physicist
- Ernest Walton – physicist, 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics
- Mary Ward (1827–1869)- microscopist
- John Richardson Wigham (1829–1906) – inventor and lighthouse engineer
- Thomas Wynne (1942–2005) - Inventor, mechanic and engineer
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