Jane Grimson (née Wright), FREng, MRIA is an Irish computer engineer.

She was the first woman to graduate in engineering from Trinity College Dublin[6] obtaining a first class honors degree and gold medal in 1970.

[4] In 1980, Grimson was appointed to a Lectureship in Computer Science at Trinity College Dublin[7] where she spent her entire academic career, holding a Personal Chair in Health Informatics prior to her retirement in 2014.

[7] Her major research interests are in Health Informatics, a field concerned with the application of Information and Communications Technology to improve the quality and safety of healthcare.

[8][9] Grimson served as Dean of Engineering and Systems Sciences from 1996 to 1999, as pro-Dean of Research in 2001 and as Vice-Provost from 2001 to 2005,[6] being the first woman to ever take these roles.