Mark William Knowles OAM (born 10 March 1984) is the Australian field hockey captain.

Another silver medal was added to Knowles’s tally, with a lost to Labrador Hockey Club in the BHL Division 1 Grand Final.

[1][2] He lives in Brisbane with his wife, Kelly (sister of Australian Hockey teammate, Jamie Dwyer) and their two sons.

[11] He was a member of the 2009 Champions Trophy winning team, playing in the gold medal match against Germany that Australia won by a score of 5–3.

[9] In December 2011, he was named as one of twenty-eight players to be on the 2012 Summer Olympics Australian men's national training squad.

[14][15][16] In February during the training camp, he played in a four nations test series with the teams being the Kookaburras, Australia A Squad, the Netherlands and Argentina.

Final Olympic section will occur several days before this test and his inclusion in the series will be contingent upon being selected.