21 Notable alumni of Swinburne University of Technology
Updated: May 01, 2026 EliteDegrees
Swinburne University of Technology is ranked #602 in the world and #24 in Australia by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 21 notable alumni from Swinburne University of Technology sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with Swinburne University of Technology won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Neil Angus
1961-. (aged 65)
accountant
auditor
politician
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...
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2. Don Tregonning
1928-2022 (aged 94)
tennis coach
tennis player
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...
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3. Jo Siejka
1980-. (aged 46)
chief executive officer
politician
Joanna Clare Rostami is an Australian politician and not-for-profit leader.
4. Tobias Manderson-Galvin
1984-. (aged 42)
actor
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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5. Jack Pickford
1904-1971 (aged 67)
Australian rules football player
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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6. Leonie Walsh
scientist
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...
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7. Robert Crowe
1968-. (aged 58)
sport cyclist
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.
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8. Andrew Dominik
1967-. (aged 59)
screenwriter
film director
director
film screenwriter
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...
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9. Lidia Thorpe
1973-. (aged 53)
politician
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...
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10. Madeleine West
1980-. (aged 46)
actor
film actor
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...
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11. Sam Hammington
1977-. (aged 49)
voice actor
television actor
comedian
film actor
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...
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12. Niki Caro
1967-. (aged 59)
film producer
screenwriter
film director
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...
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13. Gillian Armstrong
1950-. (aged 76)
actor
screenwriter
director
film producer
film director
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...
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14. Sidney Nolan
1917-1992 (aged 75)
visual artist
painter
artist
illustrator
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....
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15. Michael Leunig
1945-2024 (aged 79)
visual artist
cartoonist
poet
caricaturist
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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16. Mark Beretta
1966-. (aged 60)
journalist
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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17. Avraham Neguise
1958-. (aged 68)
politician
activist
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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18. Jason Wood
1968-. (aged 58)
politician
police officer
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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19. Mark Bolton
1979-. (aged 47)
Australian rules football player
Mark Bolton is a retired Australian rules footballer.
20. David Hodgett
1963-. (aged 63)
politician
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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21. Mouly Surya
1980-. (aged 46)
screenwriter
director
film director
Mouly Surya is an Indonesian film director and screenwriter.