21 Notable alumni of
Swinburne University of Technology
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The Swinburne University of Technology is 1798th in the world, 34th in Oceania, and 27th in Australia by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 21 notable alumni from the Swinburne University of Technology sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Andrew Dominik
- Occupations
- screenwriterfilm directordirectorfilm screenwriter
- Biography
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Andrew Dominik is an Australian film director and screenwriter. He has directed the crime film Chopper (2000) for which he won the AACTA Award for Best Direction, the Western drama film The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007), the neo-noir crime film Killing Them Softly (2012), and the biographical psychological drama Blonde (2022). He has also directed the documentary film One More Time with Feeling (2016) and two episodes of the Netflix series Mindhunter in 2019.
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Lidia Thorpe
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Lidia Alma Thorpe is an Australian politician. She is of English and Aboriginal (Gunnai, Gunditjmara and Djab Wurrung) descent. She has been a senator for Victoria since 2020 and is the first Aboriginal senator from that state. She was a member of the Australian Greens until February 2023, when she quit the party over disagreements concerning the proposed Indigenous Voice to Parliament, and became a key figure in the "progressive No" campaign against the Voice referendum in October 2023. Thorpe served as the Greens' deputy leader in the Senate from June to October 2022.
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Madeleine West
- Occupations
- actorfilm actor
- Biography
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Melanie Ann Weston, known professionally as Madeleine West, is an Australian actress, author and director. She is best known for her television roles, having played Dee Bliss and Andrea Somers on the soap opera Neighbours from 2000 to 2003 and on-off 2017 to 2020, high-class escort Mel on Satisfaction from 2007 to 2010, Dimity on House Husbands in 2013, Danielle McGuire in Underbelly and later Fat Tony & Co. In 2016, West joined the cast of The Wrong Girl. She has also written a parenting book called Six Under Eight. She played Sarah the wife of Stone Cold Steve Austin in the WWE produced film The Condemned in 2007.
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Sam Hammington
- Occupations
- voice actortelevision actorcomedianfilm actor
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Samuel Mayer Russ Hammington is a New Zealand-born Australian comedian who is primarily active in South Korea. Hammington hosted radio show Drivetime with Annabelle Ambrose from 2008 to 2012. He was a cast member of popular reality-military show Real Men. He was also cast as a member of the popular KBS reality-variety show The Return of Superman with his two sons, William and Bentley Hammington.
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Niki Caro
- Occupations
- film producerscreenwriterfilm director
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Nikola Jean Caro MNZM is a New Zealand film, television, and music video director and screenwriter. Her 2002 film Whale Rider was critically praised and won a number of awards at international film festivals. She directed the 2020 live action version of Disney's Mulan, making her the second woman and the second New Zealand director hired by Disney to direct a film budgeted at over $100 million. Caro's works ranged from music videos, commercials, television dramas, and films, etc.
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Gillian Armstrong
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- actorscreenwriterdirectorfilm producerfilm director
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Gillian May Armstrong is an Australian feature film and documentary director, best known for My Brilliant Career (1979), Mrs. Soffel (1984), High Tide (1987), The Last Days of Chez Nous (1992), and Little Women (1994). She is a Member of the Order of Australia. She has won many film awards, including an AFI Best Director Award, has been nominated for numerous others, and is the holder of several honorary doctorates.
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Sidney Nolan
- Occupations
- visual artistpainterartistillustrator
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Sir Sidney Robert Nolan was one of the leading Australian artists of the 20th century. Working in a wide variety of media, his oeuvre is among the most diverse and prolific in all of modern art. He is best known for his series of paintings on legends from Australian history, most famously that of Ned Kelly, the bushranger and outlaw. Nolan's stylised depiction of Kelly's armour has become an icon of Australian art.
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Michael Leunig
- Occupations
- visual artistcartoonistpoetcaricaturist
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Michael Leunig, typically referred to by his pen name Leunig, was an Australian cartoonist, poet and artist. He was best known for his work for Melbourne's The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.
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Mark Beretta
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Major Mark Beretta is an Australian journalist, best known as a sports presenter on Seven Network program Sunrise, he has also been an officer in the Australian Army Reserve in public relations since 2019.
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Mouly Surya
- Occupations
- screenwriterdirectorfilm director
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Mouly Surya is an Indonesian film director and screenwriter.
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Avraham Neguise
- Occupations
- politicianactivist
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Avraham Neguise is an Israeli politician and activist for the Falash Mura community. He served as a member of the Knesset for the Likud party from 2015 to 2019.
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Jason Wood
- Occupations
- politicianpolice officer
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Jason Peter Wood is an Australian politician and former police officer. He is a member of the Liberal Party and has been a member of the House of Representatives since 2013, representing the seat of La Trobe. He previously held the seat from 2004 to 2010. He was an assistant minister in the Morrison government from 2019 to 2022.
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Mark Bolton
- Years
- 1979-.. (age 47)
- Occupations
- Australian rules football player
- Biography
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Mark Bolton is a retired Australian rules footballer.
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David Hodgett
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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David John Hodgett is an Australian politician. He has been a Liberal member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly since 2006, representing the electorates of Kilsyth (2006–2014) and Croydon (2014–present). He was the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party from December 2014 to December 2018.
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Neil Angus
- Occupations
- accountantauditorpolitician
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Neil Andrew Warwick Angus is a former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, representing the electoral district of Forest Hill. He was elected in 2010, and reelected in the 2014 and 2018 elections, before being defeated at the 2022 Victorian state election. While in Parliament, Angus variously held the shadow portfolios of Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs, Consumer Affairs, and Assistant Treasurer.
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Don Tregonning
- Occupations
- tennis coachtennis player
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Donald Philip Tregonning OAM was an Australian professional tennis player and coach. Tregonning, a student of Melbourne coach Mick Sweetnam, was a member of the international amateur and professional tennis communities, reaching the mixed doubles semi finals of the 1953 Australian Open, playing twice in the quarter-finals of doubles competitions at the Australian Open (1949, 1953) and reaching the quarter-finals of the Wembley Professional Championships in 1953. Tregonning played in a famous 1953 Australian Championships Round 1 match in which the umpire left the grounds to "go to (his) tea".
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Jo Siejka
- Occupations
- chief executive officerpolitician
- Biography
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Joanna Clare Rostami is an Australian politician and not-for-profit leader.
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Tobias Manderson-Galvin
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Tobias Alexander Edward Manderson-Galvin is an Australian actor, satirist, performance poet, and playwright. He is co founder and CEO/Artistic Director of Melbourne's new writing theatre: MKA: Theatre of New Writing. and UK/Aus company Doppelgangster.
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Jack Pickford
- Occupations
- Australian rules football player
- Biography
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Wilfred Hilary "Jack" Pickford, ISO was an Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn and Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
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Leonie Walsh
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- scientist
- Biography
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Leonie Walsh is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences, and was the first Lead Scientist in Victoria, from 2013 to 2016, as well as the inaugural Women in STEMM Ambassador and the first women president of Australasian Industrial Research Group She was the representative for Victoria on the Forum of Australian Chief Scientists. Walsh received an honorary Doctorate due to her contributions in leadership to scientific enterprises, innovation and community leadership, from Swinburne University of Technology. Walsh was a judge in the Westpac 100 Women of Influence awards in 2016.
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Robert Crowe
- Occupations
- sport cyclist
- Biography
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Robert Colville Crowe, OAM is an Australian Champion Cyclist who competed in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and as Kieran Modra's pilot in the 2004 Athens Paralympics. He also directs the popular indoor cycling engine-training school at Ridewiser in Melbourne, Australia.
