List of Famous people born in Gauteng, South Africa

Justine Waddell is a South African-born British film and television actress. She played roles in the 2006 film The Fall and 2005 film Chaos as well as Tess in the 1998 LWT adaptation of Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Estella in the 1999 BBC adaptation of Great Expectations.

Nathalie Boltt is a South African actress, known in the country for her role as Joey Ortlepp in the SABC 3 soap opera Isidingo from 2001 to 2004. She is also known for portraying evil villain “Penelope Blossom“ in The CW’s teen drama series “Riverdale” since 2017. She is a graduate of Rhodes University, and currently lives in Wellington, New Zealand.

(Heloise) Ruth First was a South African anti-apartheid activist and scholar. She was assassinated in Mozambique, where she was working in exile, by a parcel bomb built by South African police.

Caron Bernstein is a South African model, actress, and singer-songwriter. She was born in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Demetri Catrakilis is a South African professional rugby union player for the Southern Kings in the Pro14. He previously played for Premiership side Harlequins, Top 14 side Montpellier, for the Stormers and the Southern Kings in Super Rugby, for Western Province in the Currie Cup and Vodacom Cup competition and for the UCT Ikey Tigers in the Varsity Cup.

Thokozile Matilda Masipa is a judge in the Gauteng Division of the High Court of South Africa. She was the presiding judge in the 2014 trial of Oscar Pistorius for the killing of Reeva Steenkamp. Her verdict of not guilty of murder was later overturned on appeal.

Michael Robert Hamilton Holmes à Court was a South African-born Australian entrepreneur who became Australia's first billionaire, before dying suddenly of a heart attack in 1990 at the age of 53.

Lt-Colonel Henry van Straubenzee DSO OBE was a British army officer who was awarded the Distinguished Service Order for leadership whilst commanding 12 Royal Tank Regiment, in Northern Italy, in 1944, during the Second World War. He later commanded the 2nd Battalion, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. He was also an English cricketer, playing for Sandhurst and the Army up to the outbreak of war. He played for Essex between 1938 and 1939.

Sir Bob Alexander Hepple, QC FBA was a South African-born academic and leader in the fields of labour law, equality and human rights.

Ivan Glasenberg is the South African chief executive officer of Glencore, one of the world's largest commodity trading and mining companies. In December 2020 it was announced that Glasenberg will retire as chief executive by June 2021. Glasenberg has or had citizenship of South Africa and Australia. He became a Swiss citizen in 2011. He is also on the board of mining company Minara Resources Ltd.