Prominent alumni

In fields as diverse as the arts, sciences, humanities, linguistics, and mathematics, Flinders alumni are making significant contributions in the local, national and international environment.

Our prominent alumni include South Australia's top arts administrator, an Australian Football League (AFL) coach, a NASA Astronaut, an Oscar nominated Director, a Fields Medallist, and an international humanitarian aid worker, just to name a few.

Here we showcase just some of our prominent alumni including:

• Rod Brooks
  BSc (Hons) 1976 MSc 1978
  Director, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT

• Noni Hazlehurst AM
  BA 1975 DLitt honoris causa 2007
  Writer, producer, director

• Scott Hicks
  BA (Hons) 1975 Hon DLitt 1997
  Director, writer, producer

• Mamoru Mohri AM
  PhD 1976 DUniv 1991
  Director, Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, Tokyo

• Anne Morris
  DipNgSt 1987 BNg 1988 MPHC 2001
  International humanitarian aid worker

• David Nunan
  PhD 1984
  Chair, Professor of Applied Linguistics and Director the English Centre at the University of Hong Kong; President, Anaheim University, and Dean, Graduate School of Education

• Terry Tao
  BSc (Hons) 1991 MSc 1992
  Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)