List of Famous people born in South Africa
Aiden Markram
Aiden Kyle Markram is a South African cricketer who captained the South African U-19 cricket team to win the 2014 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup. In the 2018 South African Cricket Annual, he was named as one of the five Cricketers of the Year. Markram has been described by former player Graeme Smith as a future South Africa captain.
Lehlohonolo Ledwaba
Lehlohonolo Benedict "Lehlo" Ledwaba was a South African professional boxer who competed from 1990 to 2006, and held the IBF junior featherweight title from 1999 to 2001.
Bjorn Fortuin
Imaad Fortuin is a South African cricketer. He made his international debut for the South Africa cricket team in September 2019.
Nick Compton
Nicholas Richard Denis Compton is an English former Test and first-class cricketer who most recently played for Middlesex County Cricket Club. The grandson of Denis Compton, he represented England in 16 Test matches.
Colin Ingram
Colin Alexander Ingram is a South African cricketer who currently plays for Glamorgan and Peshawar Zalmi. He represented South Africa in One Day (ODI) and Twenty20 Internationals (T20I) between 2010 and 2013, scoring a century on his ODI debut against Zimbabwe.
Stephen Cook
Stephen Craig Cook is a South African Test cricketer, the son of former Test player Jimmy Cook. He is a right-handed opening batsman and very occasional right-arm medium bowler who initially played for Gauteng following his debut in 2001, and since 2004 for Lions.
Grant Thomson
Grant Thomson is a South African first-class cricketer. He was included in the Easterns cricket team squad for the 2015 Africa T20 Cup. He was the leading run-scorer in the 2016–17 CSA Provincial One-Day Challenge, with a total of 472 in ten matches. In August 2017, he was named in Nelson Mandela Bay Stars' squad for the first season of the T20 Global League. However, in October 2017, Cricket South Africa initially postponed the tournament until November 2018, with it being cancelled soon after.
Katlego Maboe
Katlego Moswane Maboe is a South African TV presenter, singer-songwriter and accountant. He was consecutively awarded Best TV Presenter at the South African Film and Television Awards in 2015 and 2016. He is also known for hosting the morning talk show Expresso on SABC 3 since its inception in 2010.
Bernard Le Roux
Bernard Le Roux is a South African-born French rugby union player, who currently plays flanker for French Top 14 side Racing 92.
Kelly Hoppen
Kelly Elaine Hoppen is a South African born, British interior designer, author, and proprietor of Kelly Hoppen Interiors. From 2013 to 2015 she was a "Dragon" on BBC Two's Dragons' Den.