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The simple answer is: there are a lot, in the form of Trinitarian theology books published by professional theologians. One example is the 2021 book Contemplating God with the Great Tradition: Recovering Trinitarian Classical Theism by a professional theologian and Baptist minister Craig A. Carter reviewed here and discussed in an interview here. For an example of the continuing relevance of the Nicene formula for today to battle new understanding of God that is NOT Biblical, read his July 2021 Credo Magazine article Why We Must Reject Social Trinitarianism: It is neither Nicene nor Biblical.
Granting that the Bible alone may give support to non-Trinitarian positions, and that some pruning of theological options by the early church fathers is necessary to come up with the orthodox formulations of the Trinity, it is invalid to infer that these pruning is necessarily due to special insight / revelation to special church fathers (subjective) because then it could amount to the necessity of an oral tradition or of the necessity of prophecy beyond the canon. Instead, the standard mainstream narrative is that the Apostolic Tradition preserves the deposit of faith from the original apostles (1 Tim 6:20, 2 Tim 1:14, 1 Cor 11:2, Col 2:8) and this pruning / preference is simply due to a growing explicitness of a position held by the apostles from the very beginning. The ultimate test would be: if there is a time machine and that the apostles were present in the councils of Nicaea and Chalcedon, they would side with the orthodox theologians.
Thus, according to standard mainstream narrative, the creedal formulation of the Trinity is fully Biblical since the seeds are there. We can then logically and reasonably hold to sola scriptura's principle of the sufficiency of Scripture (see an argument for this in a 1997 Christian Research Journal article What Really Happened at Nicea? by evangelical Reformed apologist James R. White). Later prophecy / revelation a la LDS's Book of Mormon is not needed
CONCLUSION: What matters is that the formulation is consistent with the whole Bible.
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It is extremely unlikely that this has happened.
That is not because it is impossible to deduce the Trinity from the Bible, but because anyone studying the Bible in sufficient depth to be able to deduce the doctrine of the Trinity would almost certainly know enough about Christianity in general to already know about the Trinity. In a similar way it is possible that a very clever physicist today could deduce Einstein's Theory of Relativity on their own. But anyone with sufficient knowledge of physics today would already have been taught Einstein's Relativity and so wouldn't need to deduce it on their own.
The doctrine of the Trinity was not established by a single person, but done though the work of very many theologians and much debate. It required very detailed knowledge of biblical languages, Jewish theology and much more. It rests in a large part on interpreting seemingly contradictory statements in different Bible books. It's also true that the original formulators did not subscribe to the modern limited view of "Sola scriptura", but accepted the role of the Spirit in leading Christians to the truth.
Probably the closest thing to the "independent discovery" question is to examine the doctrines of the independent churches that came out of the Reformation. Such churches strongly rejected the doctrine of the Roman Catholic church, and many subscribed to Sola Scriptura, basing their new doctrines only on scripture. However despite that, and despite rejecting many Catholic doctrines where they did not find scriptural support, hardly any of them chose to reject the Trinity. In short when the Reformation theologians were testing Catholic doctrine to see if it could be supported from the Bible, and rejecting many doctrines, virtually all considered the Trinity to have Biblical support.