List of Famous people born in Gauteng, South Africa
Gavin Buckley
Gavin Buckley is a South African-born Australian-American Democratic politician, and former restaurateur serving as the Mayor of Annapolis, Maryland. He was elected in November 2017, defeating incumbent Republican mayor Mike Pantelides, and inaugurated on December 7, 2017. As mayor, Buckley has worked to allow denser development in the City Dock district, drawing opposition from historic preservation advocates. He was in office during the Capital Gazette shooting on June 28, 2018, and has advocated for stricter gun control laws in its wake.
Morné Morkel
Morne Morkel is a South African cricketer who played international cricket between 2006 and 2018. He is a right-arm fast bowler and lower order left-handed batsman.
Andrew Mlangeni
Andrew Mokete Mlangeni, also known as Percy Mokoena, Mokete Mokoena, and Rev. Mokete Mokoena, was a South African political activist and anti-apartheid campaigner who, along with Nelson Mandela and others, was imprisoned after the Rivonia Trial.
Bongani Zungu
Bongani Zungu is a South African professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for the South African national team and Scottish club Rangers, on loan from French club Amiens.
Martin Pistorius
Martin Pistorius is a South African-British man who had locked-in syndrome and was unable to move or communicate for 12 years.
Ephraim Mirvis
Ephraim Mirvis is an Orthodox rabbi who serves as the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth. Traditionally the Chief Rabbi serves as the head of all British Jews as the Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth. He served as the Chief Rabbi of Ireland between 1985 and 1992.
Gift Ngoepe
Mpho' Gift Ngoepe is a South African professional baseball shortstop and second baseman who is a free agent. He previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Pittsburgh Pirates and Toronto Blue Jays. In 2017, he became the first native of continental Africa to reach the Major Leagues.
Leka II, Crown Prince of Albania
Prince Leka of Albania is the only child of the first Leka, Crown Prince of Albania, and Susan Cullen-Ward. Prince Leka was an official at the Albanian Ministry of Interior and in the past has served as an adviser at the Albanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Presidency. On 30 November 2011, he succeeded as head of the House of Zogu, titular King of the Albanians upon the death of his father. The prince is also known as Crown Prince Leka II after his father, who was referred to as Leka I.
Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer was a South African writer, political activist and recipient of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature. She was recognized as a writer "who through her magnificent epic writing has – in the words of Alfred Nobel – been of very great benefit to humanity".
Steven Pienaar
Steven Jerome Pienaar is a South African former professional footballer and current assistant coach at Dutch amateur club SV Robinhood and Trainee Coach at the academy of AFC Ajax.