List of South Africans

Other notable South Africans

A-H

• Abraham Manie Adelstein, UK Chief Medical Statistician (1916 - 1992)
• Neil Aggett, political activist and trade unionist († 1982)
• Larry Amos, legendary blues guitarist (1952 - )
• Herman Charles Bosman, author (1905 - 1951)
• Louis Botha, statesman (1862 - 1919)
• Naas Botha, rugby player and TV presenter (1958 - )
• Schalk Burger, rugby player (1983 - )
• Roy Campbell, poet (1901 - 1957)
• John Michael Coetzee, Nobel Prize-winning author, twice winner of the Booker Prize (1940 - )
• Clive Calder (1946 ?), former chairman and executive of Zomba Music Group
• Kevin Curren, tennis player (1958 - )
• Lev David, writer and media consultant (1980 - )
• Johann Deetlefs, Artist and creator (1978 - )
• Steven DeGroote, (1953 - 1989) Van Cliburn Award winning classical pianist
• Clement Martyn Doke, linguist (1893 - 1980)
• Cliff Drysdale, tennis player and television commentator (1941 - )
• K. Sello Duiker, novelist (1974-2005)
• Frik du Preez, rugby player (1935 - )
• Os du Randt, rugby player (1972 - )
• Jacques Freitag, high jumper (1982 - )
• David Goldblatt, photographer (1930 - )
• Retief Goosen, golfer (1969 - )
• Ronald Harwood, playwright and writer (1934 - )
• T.O. Honiball, cartoonist (1905-1990)

I-Q

• Marius Joubert, rugby player (1979 - )
• Goodwill Zwelethini kaBhekuzulu, king of the Zulu nation (1948 - )
• Jacques Kallis, cricket player
• Sibongile Khumalo, singer (1957 -)
• Johan Kriek, tennis player (1958 - )
• Robert John "Mutt" Lange, music producer (1948 - )
• Laurence Lerner, poet (1925-)
• Adolph Malan, fighter pilot and civil rights activist (1910 - 1963)
• Magnus Malan, minister of defence and chief of the South African Defence Force (1930 - )
• Dalene Matthee, author (1938 - 2005)
• Dave Matthews, musician (1967 - )
• Benni McCarthy, soccer player (1977 - )
• Thebe Medupe, astrophysicist
• Mike Melvill, test pilot and first commercial astronaut (1940 - )
• Gcina Mhlope, storyteller, author, playwright, director, actor (1959 - )
• Makobo Modjadji, Balobedu's 6th Rain Queen, (1978 - 2005)
• Phaswane Mpe, novelist (1970 - 2004)
• Victoria Mxenge, anti-apartheid activist
• Lilian Ngoyi, anti-apartheid activist
• Breyton Paulse, rugby player (1976 - )
• Andries Pretorius, Boer leader and commandant-general (1799 - 1853)
• Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, Boer leader and first president of the South African Republic

R-Z

• Trevor Rabin, musician (1954 - )
• Olive Schreiner, author (1855 - 1920)
• Gerard Sekoto, artist and musician (1913 - 1993)
• Anthony Sher, actor, author and painter (1949 - )
• Rachel Simons, communist and trade unionist (1914 - 2004)
• Joel Stransky, rugby player and TV presenter (1967 - )
• Johannes Strijdom, former prime minister (1893 - 1958)
• Janet Suzman, actress (1939 - )
• Joost van der Westhuizen, rugby player (1971 - )
• Jaco van der Westhuyzen, rugby player (1978 - )
• Joe van Niekerk, rugby player (1980 - )
• B.J. Vorster, former prime minister and state president (1915 - 1983)
• Donald Woods, journalist
• Heinz Winckler, singer and winner of the first series of Idols (1978 - )