List of Famous people born in Gauteng, South Africa
Wayne Lotter
Wayne Lotter was a South African wildlife conservationist. Lotter was one of the co-founders of the PAMS Foundation, a not for profit conservation organisation based in Tanzania. Lotter also previously served as Vice President of the International Ranger Federation.
Wayne Westner
Wayne Brett Westner was a South African golfer. He was twice winner of the South African Open and also won twice on the European Tour. In partnership with Ernie Els, they won the 1996 World Cup of Golf, played at the Erinvale Golf Club near Cape Town. Els won the individual event with Westner second and the pair won the team event by 18 shots.
Aiden Markram
Aiden Kyle Markram is a South African cricketer who captained the South African U-19 cricket team to win the 2014 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup. In the 2018 South African Cricket Annual, he was named as one of the five Cricketers of the Year. Markram has been described by former player Graeme Smith as a future South Africa captain.
Lehlohonolo Ledwaba
Lehlohonolo Benedict "Lehlo" Ledwaba was a South African professional boxer who competed from 1990 to 2006, and held the IBF junior featherweight title from 1999 to 2001.
Stephen Cook
Stephen Craig Cook is a South African Test cricketer, the son of former Test player Jimmy Cook. He is a right-handed opening batsman and very occasional right-arm medium bowler who initially played for Gauteng following his debut in 2001, and since 2004 for Lions.
Grant Thomson
Grant Thomson is a South African first-class cricketer. He was included in the Easterns cricket team squad for the 2015 Africa T20 Cup. He was the leading run-scorer in the 2016–17 CSA Provincial One-Day Challenge, with a total of 472 in ten matches. In August 2017, he was named in Nelson Mandela Bay Stars' squad for the first season of the T20 Global League. However, in October 2017, Cricket South Africa initially postponed the tournament until November 2018, with it being cancelled soon after.
Kelly Hoppen
Kelly Elaine Hoppen is a South African born, British interior designer, author, and proprietor of Kelly Hoppen Interiors. From 2013 to 2015 she was a "Dragon" on BBC Two's Dragons' Den.
Ivan Gazidis
Ivan Gazidis is the Executive of Italian Serie A club AC Milan.
Dane van Niekerk
Dané van Niekerk is a South African cricketer born in Pretoria and educated at Centurion High School. A leg spin bowler, she has appearances in Test, One-Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) representing South Africa and is the women's team captain in all three forms since June 2016. She was the first bowler for South Africa to take 100 wickets in WODIs.
Basil Rathbone
Philip St. John Basil Rathbone MC was an English actor. He rose to prominence in the United Kingdom as a Shakespearean stage actor and went on to appear in more than 70 films, primarily costume dramas, swashbucklers, and, occasionally, horror films.