List of Famous people born in Gauteng, South Africa

Cornelius Wilhelmus "Corra" Dirksen was a South African rugby player. He won 10 caps and scored three tries.

Christoff Van Heerden is a South African former professional racing cyclist. In 2010 he won the South African National Road Race Championships.

Max Theiler was a South African-American virologist and physician. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1951 for developing a vaccine against yellow fever in 1937, becoming the first African-born Nobel laureate.

Ashleigh Moolman Pasio is a South African professional female road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam SD Worx. She competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Women's road race, finishing 16th and in the Women's time trial finishing 24th.

Gavin Hood is a South African filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, and actor, best known for writing and directing Tsotsi (2005), which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He also directed the films X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Ender's Game, Eye in the Sky and most recently, Official Secrets.

Robert Newton Calvert was a South African writer, poet, and musician. He is principally known for his role as lyricist, performance poet and lead vocalist of the space rock band Hawkwind.

Dave Wittenberg, sometimes credited as Dave Lelyveld, is an American voice actor.