44 Notable alumni of Curtin University

Jan-Henrik Norberger is an Australian politician. He was the member for the Western Australian Legislative Assembly seat of Joondalup from 2013 to 2017, representing the Liberal Party. In 2024, Norberger was announced as the Liberal Party's candidate for the federal seat of Pearce in the 2025 Australian federal election.

Ashleigh Jayne Nelson is an Australian hockey player, a striker for the Australia women's national field hockey team.

Jon Doust is a comedian, writer, novelist and professional speaker, born in 1948 in Bridgetown, Western Australia, who lives in Albany, Western Australia. He gained a BA majoring in English from the Western Australian Institute of Technology and worked in farming, retailing and journalism before pursuing a career in comedy and writing.

Glencora McGhie is an Australian water polo centre back/driver. She attended the Curtin University of Technology and is a dental therapist. She competes for the Fremantle Marlins in the Australian National Water Polo League, and was on sides that won the league championship in 2003, 2004, 2006 and 2007. She has been a member of the Australia women's national water...

Laura Glitsos is a writer, academic and musician based in Perth, Western Australia. Glitsos continues as a performer and also works as an academic and lecturer at Curtin University and Edith Cowan University.

Sharyn Egan is a Nyoongar artist known for her work in painting, sculpture, weaving and walking. Based in Fremantle, Western Australia, Egan's works are held in the collections of the National Museum of Australia and the Berndt Museum of Anthropology, and she has created artworks for the Perth International Arts Festival.

Brigid Lowry is a New Zealand author.

Sarah Kenderdine is a New Zealand museologist. She has been a professor of Digital Museology at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, since 2017. She leads the laboratory for experimental museology (eM+), exploring the convergence of aesthetic practice, visual analytics and cultural data. Kenderdine develops interactive and immersive experiences for museums and galleries, often employing interactive cinema and augmented...

Claire Hooper is an Australian stand-up comedian, television and radio presenter and writer. Hooper previously co-hosted The Great Australian Bake Off alongside Mel Buttle.

Sora Ma is a Singaporean actress. She was a full-time Mediacorp artiste till 2017. Ma is also a qualified pilates instructor and the founder of charity organisation Heartworks SG.

Bess Nungarrayi Price AM is an Aboriginal Australian activist and politician. She was a Country Liberal Party member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from 2012 to 2016, representing the electorate of Stuart, and was Minister for Community Services in the Giles Ministry. She lives in Alice Springs in Central Australia, in the Northern Territory.

Ian Reginald Goodenough is an Australian former politician. He was a member of the House of Representatives from September 2013 to May 2025, representing the Western Australian seat of Moore. He was a member of the Liberal Party, when he resigned to recontest Moore as an independent following his defeat for Liberal preselection. He was a property developer, businessman and...

Lisa-Michelle Scaffidi is a former Lord Mayor of Perth, Western Australia. The first female Lord Mayor of Perth, Scaffidi became mayor following the October 2007 council elections, after the retirement of her predecessor, Peter Nattrass, who served a record twelve years in the position. Scaffidi and the rest of the City of Perth council were suspended on 2 March 2018,...

Darren Glass is a former Australian rules footballer who played as a full-back for the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League (AFL). Originally from Northam, Western Australia, he attended Carine Senior High School before beginning his career with Perth in the West Australian Football League (WAFL). He was later recruited by West Coast with the 11th pick in...

Patrick Possum Gorman is an Australian politician, elected as an Australian Labor Party representative for the Division of Perth at the 2018 Perth by-election.

Priya Naree Cooper, OAM is an Australian world champion disabled swimmer, winning nine Paralympic gold medals as well as world records and world championships. She competed in the Australian swimming team at the 1992, 1996 and 2000 Summer Paralympics with an S8 classification. She was twice the co-captain of the Australian Paralympic team, including at the 2000 Paralympic Games in...

Matthew Lucas is an Australian rugby union footballer. His regular playing position is scrum-half. He has been named in the Waratahs Extended Playing Squad for the 2013 Super Rugby season.

Elissa Down is an Australian filmmaker, who in 1999 and 2000, was nominated for Young Film-maker of the year at the WA Screen Awards.

Nicole Susan Manison is an Australian politician. She was a Labor Party member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from 2013 to 2024, representing the electorate of Wanguri. She previously served as Deputy Chief Minister from 2016 to 2023, serving under both Michael Gunner and Natasha Fyles. She was also Treasurer from 2016 to 2020.

Melissa Cristina Márquez is a Puerto Rican marine biologist and science communicator. She studies chondrichthyan fishes, including great white sharks.

Pippin Drysdale is an Australian ceramic artist and art teacher. She is regarded as the foremost interpreter of the Australian landscape in the field of ceramics. Her works are known for their intensity of colour and linear markings that interpret the artist's relationship with the Australian landscape. She was recognized as one of Western Australia’s State Living Treasures in 2015....

Harith Iskander bin Musa is a Malaysian actor and comedian. He is considered to be "the Godfather of Stand-Up Comedy" in Malaysia (self claimed), having also won the Asia's Best Stand-Up Comedian Award 2014 by Top 10 of Asia Magazine.

Ljiljanna Maria Ravlich is a Western Australian politician. She was a Labor Party member of the Western Australian Legislative Council from 1997 to 2015. She was the Minister for Education during the debate over the introduction of outcomes-based education. She subsequently served as Minister for Government Enterprises; Multicultural Interests and Citizenship; Youth; and Minister Assisting the Minister for Planning and...

Natalie Ann Barr is an Australian television presenter, journalist, and news presenter.

Annelies Wilder-Smith is a professor of emerging infectious diseases at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and Visiting Professor of infectious diseases research at the Lee Kong Chian School of medicine. She is a world-renowned expert in travel and Tropical medicine. She is the past president of the International Society of Travel Medicine (ISTM), and the past president...

John Richard Worsfold is a former Australian rules football coach and player. He had a long association with the West Coast Eagles as player (1987–1998) and coach (2002–2013), captaining the club to premierships in 1992 and 1994 and coaching the club to a premiership in 2006. He was also the senior coach of the Essendon Football Club in the Australian...

Frances Ann O'Connor is an Australian actress. She appears in roles in the films Mansfield Park, Bedazzled, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, The Importance of Being Earnest, and Timeline. In television, she had main roles in Shark Bay, Mr Selfridge, Cleverman, Troy: Fall of a City, and The End, and had a recurring role in Wednesday. O'Connor won an AACTA Award for...

Judith Davis is an Australian actress. In a career spanning over four decades of both screen and stage, she has been commended for her versatility and regarded as one of the finest actresses of her generation. Frequent collaborator Woody Allen described her as "one of the most exciting actresses in the world". She is the most rewarded recipient of the...

Michaelia Clare Cash is an Australian politician currently serving as shadow minister for Foreign Affairs and Leader of the Opposition in the Senate. She previously served as the 38th Attorney-General of Australia from 2021 to 2022 in the Morrison government. She has been a Senator for Western Australia since 2008 and is a member of the Liberal Party of Australia.

Edhie Baskoro Yudhoyono, commonly referred to as Ibas, is a politician and member of House of Representatives, Indonesia. Edhie is the second son of the 6th President of the Republic of Indonesia, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and the younger brother of Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono.

George Bradley Hogg is a former Australian cricketer who played all formats of the game. He was a left-arm wrist spin bowler, and a lower-order left-handed batsman.

Carrie Bickmore is an Australian radio presenter, comedian, philanthropist and former television presenter. She currently co-hosts the national drive radio show on the Hit Network, Carrie & Tommy, from 3–6pm weeknights alongside Tommy Little. She was previously a co-host on Network 10's talk show The Project from 2009–2022.

Dean Israelite is a South African filmmaker, best known for directing the found footage film Project Almanac (2015), the 2017 reboot of Power Rangers, and the 2019 reboot of Are You Afraid of the Dark.

John Charles Wiltshire-Butler, professionally known as John Butler, is an Australian singer, songwriter and music producer. He is best known for his time as the eponymous frontman of the John Butler Trio, a roots rock and jam rock band that formed in Fremantle, Western Australia, in 1998.

Adam Murray Selwood was an Australian rules footballer who played 11 seasons for the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League (AFL). Originally from Bendigo, Victoria, Selwood was recruited by West Coast in the third round of the 2002 National Draft. He made his debut for the club in 2003, and received a nomination for the AFL Rising Star...

Nagmeldin "Peter" Bol is an Australian middle-distance runner who competes in the 800 metres. He represented Australia at the 2016 Rio Olympics, placed fourth at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and won the silver medal at the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games. Bol also competed at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Judith Mary Lucy AM is an Australian comedian and actress, known primarily for her stand-up comedy. Lucy joined the team of the ABC's The Weekly with Charlie Pickering in 2019.

Marcella Polain is an Australian-resident poet, novelist and short fiction writer.

Deidre Leanne Brock is an Australian-born Scottish National Party (SNP) politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Edinburgh North and Leith from 2015 to 2024. She is the first SNP representative to hold the seat at either a Westminster or Scottish Parliament level. Brock was the SNP House of Commons Business Spokesperson from December 2022 to July 2024.

Elizabeth Mettam is an Australian politician. She has been the member for Vasse in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly since 18 October 2014 and the deputy leader of the Western Australian Liberal Party since 25 March 2025, after previously holding the position from November 2020 to January 2023. She was the leader of the Western Australian Liberal Party from January...

Hannah McGlade CF is an Indigenous Australian academic, human rights advocate and lawyer. She is a Kurin Minang Noongar woman of the Bibulman nation and is as of May 2022 an associate professor at Curtin University's law school. She was appointed Senior Indigenous Fellow at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in 2016 and has...

Konstantine Vatskalis is a Greek-Australian politician and the former Lord Mayor of Darwin. Before becoming Lord Mayor in 2017 he was a Labor Party member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from September 2001 to October 2014, representing the Darwin-based electorate of Casuarina. He was Minister for Business and Economic Development, Minister for Regional Development, Minister for Defence Support, Minister...

Scott Ludlam is an Australian former politician. A member of the Australian Greens, he was a senator in the Australian Senate from July 2008 to July 2017 and served as deputy leader of the Greens. Ludlam represented the state of Western Australia and resigned when it was found that he had been ineligible to sit in the Senate due to...