18 Notable alumni of
Swinburne University of Technology
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The Swinburne University of Technology is 1774th in the world, 34th in Oceania, and 27th in Australia by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 18 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
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- film directorscreenwriterfilm screenwriterdirector
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Andrew Dominik is an Australian film director and screenwriter. He has directed the crime film Chopper (2000), 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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Sam Hammington
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- television actorcomedian
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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
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- film producerfilm directorscreenwriter
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Nikola Jean Caro 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 female 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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Madeleine West
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- film actoractor
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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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Gillian Armstrong
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- directorscreenwriteractorart directorfilm director
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Gillian May Armstrong is an Australian feature film and documentary director, best known for My Brilliant Career, Little Women, The Last Days of Chez Nous, and Mrs. Soffel. She is a Member of the Order of Australia.
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Sidney Nolan
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- painterillustratorvisual artist
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Sir Sidney Robert Nolan was one of Australia's leading 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 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
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- cartoonist
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Michael Leunig, typically referred to as Leunig (his signature on his cartoons), is an Australian cartoonist. His works include The Curly Pyjama Letters, cartoon books The Essential Leunig, The Wayward Leunig, The Stick, Goatperson, Short Notes from the Long History of Happiness and Curly Verse, among others and The Lot, a compilation of his 'Curly World' newspaper columns. Leunig has also written a book of prayers, When I Talk To You.
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Mark Beretta
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- journalist
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Major Mark Beretta is an Australian journalist, best known as a sports reporter 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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Avraham Neguise
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- activistpolitician
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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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Mouly Surya
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- film directordirectorscreenwriter
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Mouly Surya is an Indonesian film director and screenwriter.
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Mark Bolton
- Years
- 1979-.. (age 45)
- Occupations
- Australian rules football player
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Mark Bolton is a retired Australian rules footballer.
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David Hodgett
- Occupations
- politician
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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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Jo Siejka
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- politicianchief executive officer
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Joanna Clare Siejka is an Australian politician and not-for-profit leader.
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Don Tregonning
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- tennis playertennis coach
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Donald Philip Tregonning 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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Tobias Manderson-Galvin
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- actor
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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
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- Australian rules football player
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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
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- scientist
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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
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- sport cyclist
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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.
