285 people
Browse profiles of notable people from around the world.
Isabella Truth
African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist (1797–1883)
Rik de Voest
South African tennis player
Hassan Africanus
Andalusian author
Ahmed Deedat
South African writer and orator (1918–2005)
Aubrey Modiba
South African footballer
Siya Kolisi
South African rugby union footballer
Anri Visser
South African rapper and singer
Kehinde Wiley
African-American painter (born 1977)
Gift Motupa
South African association football player
Solomon James
South African-born British character actor and comedy actor (1913-1976)
Solomon Northup
free-born African American kidnapped by slave-traders
Thapelo Maseko
South African footballer (born 2002)
Esther Brand
South African former athlete (1922–2015)
Thabo Mngomeni
South African footballer
Eike Moriz
German-South African singer, composer and actor
Patrice Motsepe
South African businessman
Martine Denguiadé
Empress Consort of Central African
Sylvie Baïpo-Temon
Central African politician
Marian Anderson
African-American contralto (1897–1993)
Abraham Petrovich Gannibal
African-born Russian general and military engineer (c.1696–1781)
Angie Motshekga
South African politician
Toni Morrison
African American novelist, essayist, and academic (1931–2019)
Yewande Omotoso
South African-based novelist
Melis Melis Mey
South African-born Turkish long jumper (born 1983)
Rilee Rossouw
South African cricketer
Aiden Markram
South African cricketer
Raven Klaasen
South African tennis player (born 1982)
Robyn Moodaly
South African footballer
Robyn de Groot
South African Professional Racing Cyclist
Kendell Geers
South African artist (born 1968)
Martyn Martyn Doke
South African linguist (1893–1980)
Jody February
South African association football player
Jody Scheckter
South African racecar driver
Fanie Eloff
South African sculptor
Syd van der Vyver
South African racing driver (1920-1989)
Kermit Erasmus
South African association football player
Darlene Cagle
African American astronaut
Isobel Guthrie
South African botanist (1879-1966)
Gwendoline Joyce Lewis
British-born South African botanist (1909–1967)
Melba Roy Mouton
African-American Assistant Chief of Research Programs at NASA
Charlene Princess of Monaco
Zimbabwean-South African former Olympic swimmer; wife of Albert II, Prince of Monaco
Delina Boshoff
South African tennis player
Darrell Roodt
South African film director
Duane Vermeulen
South African rugby union footballer
Constantine the African
11th-century monk and translator of medical works
Elna Reinach
South African tennis player
Bobbie Heine Miller
South African Tennis player (1909-2016)
Seldon Seldon Duncanson
African American artist (1821-1872)