285 people
Browse profiles of notable people from around the world.
Booker T. Washington
African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor (1856-1915)
Armstead Lawrence
African American painter and art professor (1917–2000)
Phillis Wheatley
first African-American poet (1753–1784)
Manning Marable
American professor of public affairs and African American studies at Columbia University and biographer (1950–2011)
Presley Chweneyagae
South African actor (1984-2025)
Albertus Smith
South African rugby union footballer
Noble Sissle
African-American jazz musician (1889–1975)
Noble Johnson
African-American actor and film producer (1881–1978)
Sid Atkinson
South African athlete (1901–1977)
Shelton Brooks
Canadian-born African American composer of popular music and jazz
Mac Maharaj
South African politician
Lyle Foster
South African association football player
Cliff Simon
South African actor (1962–2021)
Cliff Drysdale
South African tennis player
Llewellyn Herbert
South African 400 m hurdler
Ellsworth Raymond Johnson
African-American mobster (1905-1968)
Basil van Rooyen
South African racing driver
Sydney Brenner
South African biologist, Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002
Reginald Walker
South African athlete, Olympic medalist (1889–1951)
Ephraim Mirvis
South African rabbi
Clem Tholet
South African musician
Ellis Ferreira
South African tennis player (born 1970)
Emmett Till
African-American lynching victim (1941–1955)
Adolph Ibrahim
South African pianist and composer (born 1934)
Perry Floyd
African American man who was a victim of police violence in the United States, killed by Derek Chauvin
Chester Williams
South African rugby union footballer and coach (1970-2019)
Luther Singh
South African association football player
Penelope Coelen
South African actress, model and beauty queen, crowned Miss World 1958
Mignon du Preez
South African cricketer, who was the women's team captain
Janette Deacon
South African archaeologist
Zola Budd
South African competitive runner
Amie Breeze Harper
African-American critical race feminist and writer
Maye Musk
Canadian-South African model and dietitian
Letta Mbulu
South African musician
Clarice Phelps
African American nuclear chemist
Edmonia Lewis
African American sculptor (1844–1907)
Dena Kaplan
South African-Australian actress and dancer
Dolly Rathebe
South African actor and musician (1928-2004)
Octavia Rogers Albert
African-American author of Life history
Zora Neale Hurston
African American folklorist, novelist, short story writer, and Civic Rights advocate (1891–1960)
Lois Mailou Jones
African American painter (1905–1998)
Genevieve Morton
South African model
Amelia Amelia Obermeyer
South African botanist (1907-2001)
Nannie de Villiers
South African tennis player
Lizzie van Zyl
South African child prisoner
Della H. Raney
African-American army nurse
Bessie Emery Head
South African born Botswanan writer and teacher (1937–1986)
Minnie Dlamini
South African on-air personality, actress and model