285 people
Browse profiles of notable people from around the world.
Rosalyn Fairbank
South African tennis player
Cole Lowe
African American fashion designer (1898–1981)
Ernie Els
South African professional golfer
Gill Marcus
South African banker
Floyd Shivambu
South African politician
Cecil Kellaway
South African actor (1890–1973)
Arnold Vosloo
South African actor
Glen King
African American police brutality victim (1965–2012)
Ralph Bunche
diplomat, educator, civil rights activist and the first African American Nobel Peace Prize winner (1904–1971)
Cameron van der Burgh
South African Olympic swimmer
Dulcie September
South African anti-apartheid activist (1935–1988)
Daryl Impey
South African racing cyclist
Harriet Margaret Louisa Bolus
South African botanist, botanical collector, and curator and scientific illustrator (1877–1970)
Harriet Tubman
African-American abolitionist (1822–1913)
Lillian Ngoyi
South African anti-apartheid activist (1911–1980)
Ella Josephine Baker
African-American civil rights and human rights activist (1903–1986)
Damon Galgut
South African writer (1963-)
Roxanne Kimberly Barker
South African footballer
Juanita du Plessis
South African singer
Calvin Marlin
South African footballer
Calvin Ngcongca
South African footballer
Hayley Proctor
African American explorer, scientist, STEM communicator
Dorothy Vaughan
African-American mathematician
Hugh Masekela
South African jazz trumpeter
Trisha Chetty
South African cricketer
Glenda Gray
South African researcher
Rory Sabbatini
South African-Slovak professional golfer
Rory Byrne
South African engineer
Tanya van Graan
van Graan is a South African actress, singer and model
Clare Clare Verdoorn
South African botanist (1896-1989)
Chad le Clos
South African swimmer
Sandi Schultz
South African actress
Tracey Rose
South African artist (born 1974)
Lance Davids
South African footballer
Jackie Pretorius
South African racing driver
Frederick Douglass
African-American social reformer, writer, and abolitionist (c. 1818–1895)
Jeanette Myburgh
South African swimmer
Shannon Kook
South African actor (born 1987)
Natalie du Toit
South African swimmer
Marlene van Niekerk
South African author
Marlene Dumas
South African painter and draftsperson (born 1953)
Elsa Joubert
South African writer (1922–2020)
Gavin Hood
South African filmmaker (born 1963)
Dianne Van Rensburg
South African tennis player
Winsome Fanny Barker
South African botanist (1907–1994)
Myra Adele Logan
African-American physician
Trevor Jones
South African film score composer
Trevor Rabin
South African musician (born 1954)