Richard Joseph Goldstone (born October 26, 1938) is a South African former judge. After working for 17 years as a commercial lawyer, he was appointed by the South African government to serve...
Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo (5 September 1909 – 19 September 1983) was a Muslim Indian South African communist and anti-apartheid activist. In his life he was chair of both the South African Indian...
Basil Rathbone, MC (13 June 1892 – 21 July 1967) was a South African–born British actor most famous for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes and of suave villains in such swashbuckler films as...
Claude Chevalley (11 February 1909, Johannesburg, South Africa – 28 June 1984, Paris) was a French mathematician who made important contributions to number theory, algebraic geometry, class...
Neil Geoffrey Turok (born 1958 in Johannesburg, South Africa) is the Director of Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. He is the son of Mary and Ben Turok, activists in the...
William Kentridge is a South African artist. He was born in Johannesburg in 1955. He took a Bachelor of Arts in Politics and African Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand and then a...
Janet Suzman is a South African actress and director. Born in Johannesburg to a Jewish family, the niece of civil rights/anti-apartheid campaigner, Helen Suzman, she was...
Lauren Beukes (born on 5 June 1976 in Johannesburg, South Africa) is a South African novelist, short story writer, journalist and TV scriptwriter. She is a pirate Zeppelin queen and a famous...
Russell Claude Smith (born August 2, 1963 in Johannesburg, South Africa) is a Canadian novelist and newspaper columnist. Smith's novels are mostly set in Toronto, where he lives. Smith grew...
Albie Sachs (1935-) was a judge on the Constitutional Court of South Africa. He was appointed to the court by Nelson Mandela in 1994 and retired in October 2009. Justice Sachs recently...
Beverley Naidoo is a popular South African children's author who has written a number of award-winning novels, mainly about life in South Africa, where she spent her childhood. She...
Keorapetse William Kgositsile (b. September 19, 1938 in Johannesburg) is a South African poet and political activist, and was an influential member of the African National Congress in the...
Sheila Gordon, a novelist born in Johannesburg, South Africa on January 22, 1927, is the author of Waiting for the Rain, The Middle of Somewhere, and Unfinished Business. She grew up in...
David John Murray Wright (1920–1994) was an author and "an acclaimed South African-born poet". Wright was born in Johannesburg, South Africa 23 February 1920 of normal hearing. He contracted...
Sheila Kohler is a film story contributor.
Seymour Papert (born February 29, 1928 in Pretoria, South Africa) is an MIT mathematician, computer scientist, and educator. He is one of the pioneers of artificial intelligence, as well as...
Max Theiler (January 30, 1899 – August 11, 1972) was a South African/American virologist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1951 for developing a vaccine against...
Lionel Abrahams (1928 – 31 May 2004) was a South African novelist, poet, editor, critic, essayist and publisher. He was born in Johannesburg, where he lived his entire life. He was born with...
Geoffrey Jenkins was a South African novelist. When Jenkins was 17 he wrote and had published A Century of History which received a special eulogy...
Damon Galgut is an award-winning South African playwright and novelist. Galgut was born in Pretoria, South Africa in 1963. His family, of European stock, had strong ties to the South...
Ivan Vladislaviċ is a South African short story writer and novelist of croatian origin. He lives in Johannesburg where he also works as an editor. In the eighties he worked as a fiction and...
Moyra Caldecott is a British author of historical fiction, fantasy, science fiction and non-fiction. Her works include "Guardians of the Tall Stones" and The Egyptian Sequence. Moyra...
Ignatius Royston Dunnachie Campbell, better known as Roy Campbell, (October 2, 1901 – April 22, 1957) was an Anglo-African poet and satirist. He was considered by T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas...
Harry Preston (born Harry Pimm in Durban, South Africa on September 4, 1923, died Dallas, TX, on November 23, 2009 ) is an author and Hollywood screenwriter. To date, his credits include...
Cyril James Cusack (26 November 1910 – 7 October 1993) was an Irish actor, who appeared in more than 90 films. Cusack was born in Durban, Natal, South Africa, the son of Alice Violet (née...