seven Perth Modern Students have won the award: 2022: Jessica Doan 2021: Lawrence Nheu 2018: Pooja Ramesh 2016: Caitlin Revell 2015: Hui Min Tay 2014: Jamin Wu 2010: Michael Taran Notable alumni Perth Modern School alumni are known as Perth Modernians. In 2010, The Age reported that Perth Modern ranked equal fourth among Australian schools based on the number of alumni who had received a top Order of Australia and was the top ranked WA school. Fourteen Perth Modernians have won Rhodes Scholarships from the University of Western Australia. Notable Perth Modernians include: Garrick Agnew - Olympic swimmer, businessman Margaret Battye – lawyer, female rights activist Len Buckeridge - founder of Buckeridge Group of Companies Elizabeth Gaines - business, first female CEO of Fortescue Metals Group Rolf Harris – entertainer, TV personality, artist, musician, actor, sex offender Paul Hasluck – 17th Governor-General of Australia, Cabinet minister Bob Hawke – 23rd Prime Minister of Australia, ACTU President John Hay - leader in academia Ralph Honner - Lieutenant Colonel, Australian Ambassador to Ireland Betty Judge-Beazley - athletics world records holder John La Nauze - historian Katherine Langford - actress Malcolm McCusker – 31st Governor of Western Australia Emma Matthews - lyric soprano, Opera Australia Maxwell Newton – first editor The Australian Alan Seymour - playwright, author of The One Day of the Year Ralph Slatyer - first Chief Scientist of Australia John Stone – Secretary to the Treasury, Australian Senator Daryl Williams – Attorney General of Australia Albert Wolff – Chief Justice of Western Australia See also List of schools in the Perth metropolitan area References Further reading External links Boarding schools in Western Australia Public high schools in Perth, Western Australia Rock Eisteddfod Challenge participants Educational institutions established in 1911 Subiaco, Western Australia State Register of Heritage Places in the City of Subiaco 1911 establishments in Australia Selective schools in Western Australia