S-V

Names are ordered alphabetically by surname, from S-V.

Dr David Sabiston MNZM

• New Year’s Honours 2010: Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to ophthalmology and the community

Dr Mark Sagar – BSc 1988, PhD Engineering 1996

• Distinguished Alumni Award 2012
• Won a Scientific and Engineering Academy Award in 2010 for developing a system used to create the realistic appearance of digital characters in the film Spiderman 2
• Won an Academy Award in 2011 for facial motion capture solutions used in King Kong, Avatar, and other blockbuster films

Mary Schnackenberg – BA

• Distinguished Alumni Award 1996

Tom Schnackenberg – BSc, MSc, Honorary Doctorate in Engineering

• Distinguished Alumni Award 2003

Dr Charlotte Severne ONZM

• Queen’s Birthday Honours 2016: Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to Māori and science

Dame Karen Sewell DNZM QSO

• New Year’s Honours 2012: Companion of the Queen's Service Order for services to the State
• Queen’s Birthday Honours 2016: Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to education

Honourable Sir Dr Pita Sharples KNZM, CBE

• Queen's Birthday Honours 2015

Dr Richard Wong She CNZM

• Kings's Birthday Honours 2023: Companion of the Queen's Service Order for services to burn care
  

Judge David Sheppard QSO

• Queen’s Birthday Honours 2014

Karen Sherry QSM

• Queen’s Birthday Honours 2014

Marie Shroff – MA with Honours

• Distinguished Alumni Award 2004

Richard Sibson – BSc with Honours (1968),MSc London (1970), PhD London (1977)

• Distinguished Alumni Award 2010
• Helped establish the University of Auckland’s Institute of Earth Science and Engineering
• Appointed Fellow of the Royal Society, London, in 2003
• Recognised internationally for pioneering earthquake research
• Served appointments at Imperial College London, the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the University of Otago

Nua Silipa ONZM
    

• King's Birthday Honours 2023: Office of the Queen's Service Order for services to Pacific education

The Honourable Clement Rudolph Simich QSO

• New Year Honours 2009: Companion of the Queen's Service Order for services as a Member of Parliament

Miss Jane Sinclair MNZM

• New Year Honours 2024: Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to art and education

Professor David Christopher Graham Skegg OBE DCNZM

• New Year Honours 2009: Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to medicine

Dr David Skilling – BCom, MCom, MPP, PhD

• Young Alumnus of the Year 2006

George E Smith – BSc

• Distinguished Alumni Award 2000

Nicholas Smith ONZM

• Queen’s Birthday Honours 2016: Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to the media and sport

Janine Smith MNZM

• New Year’s Honours 2015

Professor Graham Smith CNZM

• Queen’s Birthday Honours 2014

Alan Smythe – BA, MA

• Distinguished Alumni Award 1999

Franklin Solomon MNZM

• King's Birthday Honours 2023: Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to Maori & Pacific education

Dame Cheryll Sotheran – BA, MA

• Distinguished Alumni Award 1999

Victoria Spackman ONZM

• Queen’s Birthday Honours 2016: Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to theatre, film and television

Ailsa Spicer QSM

• Queen’s Birthday Honours 2014

Associate Professor Susan St John CNZM

• Queen's Birthday Honours 2010: Companion of the Queen's Service Order for services to social policy

Patricia Stafford-Bush QSM JP

• New Year Honours 2018: The Queen's Service Medal for services to the community

Michael Stanley CNZM

• New Year’s Honours 2017: Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to sport

Francis Stark MNZM

• Queen’s Birthday Honours 2014

Emeritus Professor CK Stead – BA (1954), MA (1955), PhD Bristol (1961)

• Distinguished Alumni Award 2008
• Professor of English at the University of Auckland for 20 years
• Admitted to the Order of New Zealand in 2007
• Poet, novelist, essayist and literary critic

Sir Laurence Stevens – BCom

• Distinguished Alumni Award 2001

Lynette Stewart – PGDipBus (2001), MMgt (2004)

• Distinguished Alumni Award 2008
• Maori leader recognised for innovative leadership
• Served as the Chairperson for the Northland District Health Board

Arihia Stirling QSM

• Queen’s Birthday Honours 2016: Awarded a Queen’s Service Medal for services to education and Māori

Honourable Maryan Street MNZM

• New Year Honours 2024: Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services as a Member of Parliament and to human and democratic rights.

The Honourable Paul Desmond Swain QSO

• New Year Honours 2009: Companion of the Queen's Service Order for services as a Member of Parliament

Professor Janis Elizabeth Swan MNZM

• New Year Honours 2009: Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to engineering

The Reverend Peter Sykes QSM

• New Year’s Honours 2017: The Queen's Service Medal for services to the community

Dr Tamasailau Suaalii MNZM

• New Year Honours 2024: Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to education

Sir Peter Talley KNZM

• Queen's Birthday Honours 2015

Dr Jeffery Lewis Tallon CNZM

• Queen's Birthday Honours 2009: Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to science

Simon Talbot

• Distinguished Alumni Award 2019

Dr William Tan – Medical and Health Sciences

• Distinguished Alumni Award 2014 
• Neuroscientist, medical doctor, Paralympian and international speaker

Wanda Tate QSM

• Queen's Birthday Honours 2009: Received the Queen's Service Medal for services to conservation

Professor Warren Perry Tate CNZM

• Queen's Birthday Honours 2011: Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to science

Dr Ana Maui Taufe’ulungaki – Arts

• Distinguished Alumni Award 2014 Minister of Education and Training in the Kingdom of Tonga

John Taylor MNZM

• New Year’s Honours 2016: Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to education

Dr Jennifer Plane Te Paa – BTheol (1993), MEd (1995)

• Distinguished Alumni Award 2010
• Served as the Ahorangi or Principal of Te Rau Kahikatea at the College of St John the Evangelist
• First lay, indigenous, and single woman appointed as head of an Anglican theological college throughout the Anglican Communion
• Named among the 50 most influential Anglicans globally by the London Daily Telegraph

Dr David John Teece CNZM

• New Year’s Honours 2013: For services to New Zealand-United States relations

Teresa Tepania-Ashton MNZM

• Queen’s Birthday Honours 2016: Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to Māori and business

Associate Professor Jean-Claude Theis ONZM

• New Year’s Honours 2011: Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to medicine

Dr Andrew Thoon – MBChB

• Distinguished Alumni Award 2006

Professor Peter Rowland Thorne CNZM

• Queen's Birthday Honours 2009: Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to auditory neuroscience

Dr David Tipene-Leach MNZM

• New Year Honours 2018: Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to Māori and health

Professor Lynette Tippett ONZM

• King's Birthday Honours 2023: Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to neuropsychology & dementia

Robert Tilsley MNZM

• Queen's Birthday Honours 2009: Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to agriculture and the community

Professor Helen Timperley CNZM

• New Year’s Honours 2010: Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to education

Evelyn Maria Tobin MNZM

• New Year Honours 2009: Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to Te Reo

Sir John Desmond Todd KNZM CNZM

• New Year’s Honours 2012: Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to business
• Queen's Birthday Honours 2009: Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to business and the community

Petrina Togi-Sa’ena, MNZM

• New Year's Honours 2018, Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to Pacific music

David Towns ONZM

• King’s Birthday Honours 2023: Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to conservation
  

Dr Anthony Townsend MNZM

• Queen's Birthday Honours 2015

Garnet Tregonning MNZM

• Queen’s Birthday Honours 2016: Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to orthopaedics

Watene Waara Tukukino QSM

• Queen's Birthday Honours 2011: Queen's Service Medal for services to Māori

John Ure MNZM

• Queen’s Birthday Honours 2016: Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to music

Colleen Urlich JP, ONZM

• New Year’s Honours 2015

Nguyen Van Thanh – BE (1971), PhD (1975)

• Distinguished Alumni Award 2010
• Joint winner of the Royal Society of New Zealand’s ER Cooper Medal in 1978
• Vietnamese recipient of a Colombo Plan Scholarship
• Founder and CEO/President of NVT Technologies, an engineering company spanning 13 states in the United States
• Notable philanthropist