Famous People

Trevor Noah

South African comedian and former television host

Chloe Tryon

South African cricketer

Dane van Niekerk

South African cricketer

Melinda Hopkins

African American actress and blues and gospel singer (1924-2017)

Lorraine Hansberry

African-American playwright and author (1930-1965)

Phoebe Phoebe de Vos

South African botanist (1912-2005)

Emily Schreiner

South African author and pacifist (1855-1920)

Susan Swanepoel

South African model

Irma Stern

South African artist (1894-1966)

Connie Chiume

South African actress

Connie Ferguson

South African actress, producer and businesswoman

Errol Musk

South African businessman (born 1946) of Dutch-British descent

Janet Suzman

South African-British actress

Katherine Johnson

African-American mathematician

Brenda Fassie

South African pop singer (1964-2004)

Marcus Garvey

Jamaica-born British political activist, Pan-Africanist, orator, and entrepreneur (1887-1940)

Sheldon van der Linde

South African motor racing driver

Jani Allan

South African columnist and broadcaster

1952 — 2023

Roland Mark Schoeman

South African swimmer

1980 — present

Tatjana Smith

South African swimmer

1997 — present

Lucas Radebe

South African association football player

1969 — present

Catherine Samba-Panza

Central African politician

1954 — present

Elisabeth Domitien

Prime Minister of the Central African Republic (1925-2005)

1925 — 2005

Oscar Pistorius

South African sprinter and convicted murderer (born 1986)

1986 — present

Maggie L. Walker

African-American teacher and businesswoman

1867 — 1934

Maggie Laubser

South African painter and printmaker (1886-1973)

1886 — 1973

Steven Pienaar

South African footballer

1982 — present

Shaun Keeling

South African rower

1987 — present

Shaun Pollock

South African cricketer

1973 — present

Shaun Ross

Albinistic African-American male fashion model

1991 — present

Shaun Morgan

South African rock musician

1978 — present

Shaun Bartlett

South African footballer

1972 — present

Amanda Coetzer

South African tennis player

1971 — present

Hector Pieterson

South African activist

1963 — 1976

Grace Pandor

South African politician

1953 — present

Devon Conway

New Zealand-South African cricketer

1991 — present

Stephen Biko

South African anti-apartheid activist (1946–1977)

1946 — 1977

Wayne Ferreira

South African tennis player

1971 — present

Ken McArthur

South African long-distance runner

1882 — 1960

Mark Shuttleworth

South African entrepreneur; second self-funded visitor to the International Space Station

1973 — present

Kevin Anderson

South African tennis player

1986 — present

Kevin Carter

South African photojournalist

1960 — 1994

Chris Hani

South African anti-apartheid activist (1942-1993)

1942 — 1993

Jermaine Seoposenwe

South African footballer

1993 — present

John M. Coetzee

South African and Australian writer and scholar (born 1940)

1940 — present