Nicholas Antony Tonti-Filippini AO (5 July 1956 – 7 November 2014) was an Australian bioethicist.
[1] Tonti-Filippini was born in Melbourne, and raised in Bendigo, where he attended St Vincent's College.
[2] He became director of the Bioethics Department at St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, and later worked as research officer for the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference.
[3] At the time of his death, he was associate dean and head of bioethics at the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family in Melbourne.
[1] Tonti-Filippini was posthumously given the Officer of the Order of Australia award as part of the 2016 Australia Day Honours, for "distinguished service to tertiary education, particularly in the area of bioethics, through academic leadership and advisory roles, and to medical research.