Sir Alan Shallcross Hulme KBE (14 February 1907 – 9 October 1989) was an Australian politician, accountant and cattle breeder.

Hulme won the House of Representatives seat of Petrie at its creation at the 1949 election for the Liberal Party.

As Postmaster-General, he was responsible for the introduction of an Australian-owned satellite system in 1970, Aussat, which was later privatised as Optus.

In 1972 he announced that colour television would be introduced in Australia from 1 March 1975,[3] by which time he had retired from politics and his party was out of office.

Hulme was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in January 1971.