List of Famous people born in Northern Cape, South Africa

Shaleen Surtie-Richards

First Name Shaleen
Born on May 7, 1955
Died on June 7, 2021 (aged 66)

Shaleen Surtie-Richards was a South African television, stage, and film actress. She is perhaps best known for her starring roles in the 1988 film Fiela se Kind and the long-running series Egoli: Place of Gold. She has performed in both Afrikaans and English.

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Alice Krige

First Name Alice
Last Name Krige
Born on June 28, 1954 (age 70)
Height 164 cm | 5'5

Alice Maud Krige is a South African actress and producer. Her first feature film role was in Chariots of Fire (1981) as the Gilbert and Sullivan singer Sybil Gordon. She played the dual role of Eva Galli/Alma Mobley in Ghost Story, and the Borg Queen in Star Trek: First Contact.

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Frances Baard

First Name Frances
Last Name Baard
Died on June 2, 1997 (aged 27)

Frances Goitsemang Baard was a South African trade unionist, organiser for the African National Congress Women's League and a Patron of the United Democratic Front, who was commemorated in the renaming of the Diamantveld District Municipality (Kimberley) as the Frances Baard District Municipality. Schoeman Street in Pretoria was also renamed in her honour.

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Jessie Vihrog

First Name Jessie
Born on October 19, 1907
Died on January 1, 1996 (aged 88)

Jessie Vihrog was a South African-born German film actress.

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Hernus Kriel

First Name Hernus
Born on November 14, 1941
Died on July 5, 2015 (aged 73)

Hermanus Jacobus Kriel was the first Premier of the Western Cape province. He previously served as the Minister of Law and Order in the South African government under Frederik Willem de Klerk. He was born in 1941 in Kakamas, Northern Cape.

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Louis Luyt

First Name Louis
Last Name Luyt
Born on June 18, 1932
Died on February 1, 2013 (aged 80)

Louis Luyt was a South African business tycoon and politician, and one-time rugby administrator.

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Humphry Knipe

First Name Humphry
Born on September 20, 1941 (age 83)

Victor Humphry Knipe is a sociology and history author, and adult film writer, director, and website administrator. He is a co-author of The Dominant Man: The Pecking Order in Human Society, a sociology book which has been translated into five languages, and the sole author of The Nero Prediction, a historic novel about Emperor Nero and astrology, which won the 2006 Independent Publisher Book Award for "Best Historical Fiction."

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Meyer Fortes

First Name Meyer
Last Name Fortes
Born on April 24, 1906
Died on January 27, 1983 (aged 76)

Meyer Fortes was a South African-born anthropologist, best known for his work among the Tallensi and Ashanti in Ghana.

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Ingrid Jonker

First Name Ingrid
Born on September 19, 1933
Died on July 19, 1965 (aged 31)

Ingrid Jonker (OIS), was a South African poet. While she wrote in Afrikaans, her poems have been widely translated into other languages.

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John-Lee Augustyn

First Name John-Lee
Born on August 10, 1986 (age 38)
Height 178 cm | 5'10

John-Lee Augustyn is a South African former professional road bicycle racer. His former teams include Team Sky, Barloworld and MTN–Qhubeka. Following a hip resurfacing operation in 2011, he moved to the UCI Professional Continental team Utensilnord–Named, but continued to suffer problems, indicating the hip implant was not coping with the rigours of professional racing. Following medical advice announced in May 2012 that he was taking an indefinite break from professional cycling, Augustyn returned to the professional peloton in 2014 with the MTN–Qhubeka team.

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