List of Famous people born in Gauteng, South Africa

Cuthbert James McCall Alport, Baron Alport, was a Conservative Party politician, minister, and life peer.

Willie Michael Toweel was a boxer from South Africa, who won the bronze medal in the flyweight division at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, FInland.

Katia Guerreiro is a South African-born Portuguese fado singer, who has released eight albums and has received several awards, including Order of Arts and Letters, Chevalier rank, from the French government and the Order of Prince Henry from the President of Portugal.

Sir Hugh Eyre Campbell Beaver, KBE was an English-South African engineer, industrialist, and founder of the Guinness World Records.

Claude Chevalley was a French mathematician who made important contributions to number theory, algebraic geometry, class field theory, finite group theory and the theory of algebraic groups. He was a founding member of the Bourbaki group.

Marius Weyers is a South African actor. He lives with his wife Yvette, an artist in her own right, in Rooi-Els in the Western Cape. He received international attention playing Andrew Steyn, a bumbling scientist in the movie The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980). He appeared in Blood Diamond (2006).

Alan Abraham Segal was a South African tennis player.

Lindiwe Nonceba Sisulu is a South African politician, member of parliament since 1994, serving as Minister of Human Settlements, Water & Sanitation since May 2019 and member of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress. She served before as Minister of Housing, Minister of Defence and Military Veterans, and was the Minister of Public Service and Administration from 2012 to 2014.

Lebogang Lelani Phiri is a South African professional footballer who plays for French Ligue 1 club EA Guingamp and the South Africa national team. Phiri is capable of playing in several midfield positions, but is usually deployed by his club and national sides as a central midfielder, in the role of a deep-lying playmaker.

Angelique Rockas is an actress, producer and activist. Rockas founded Internationalist Theatre in the UK with patron Athol Fugard. The theater featured multi-racial casts in classical plays, breaking racial barriers that were once accepted norms for theatrical performances.