List of Famous people born in South Africa

Sir Ronald Harwood, was a South African-born British author, playwright, and screenwriter, best known for his plays for the British stage as well as the screenplays for The Dresser and The Pianist, for which he won the 2003 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He was nominated for the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007).

Nicolaas Johannes John 'Maks' van Dyk is a South African rugby union player for Exeter Chiefs. His regular position is prop.

Thabiso Mchunu is a South African professional boxer who challenged for the WBO cruiserweight title in 2016. As of May 2020, he is ranked as the world's fifth best active cruiserweight by BoxRec.

Kermit Romeo Erasmus is a South African professional footballer who plays for South African Premier Soccer League side Mamelodi Sundowns and the South Africa national team.

Patrice Tlhopane Motsepe is a South African mining billionaire businessman of Tswana descent. He is the founder and executive chairman of African Rainbow Minerals, which has interests in gold, ferrous metals, base metals, and platinum. He sits on several company boards, including being the non-executive chairman of Harmony Gold, the world's 12th largest gold mining company, and the deputy chairman of Sanlam. In 2012, Motsepe was named South Africa's richest man, topping the Sunday Times' annual Rich List with an estimated fortune of R20.07 billion.

Panagiotis Retsos is a Greek professional footballer who plays as a defender for Ligue 1 club Saint-Étienne, on loan from Bayer Leverkusen, and the Greece national team.

Resident Evil: The Final Chapter is a 2016 science fiction action film written and directed by Paul W. S. Anderson. A direct sequel to Resident Evil: Retribution (2012), it is the sixth installment in the Resident Evil film series, which is based on the video game series of the same name. The film stars Milla Jovovich, Iain Glen, Ali Larter, Shawn Roberts, Eoin Macken, Fraser James, Ruby Rose, Rola, and William Levy. In the film, Alice and her friends are betrayed by a clone of Albert Wesker, who gathers the entire forces of Umbrella into one final strike against the apocalypse survivors.

Elias Sekgobelo "Ace" Magashule is a South African politician and an anti-apartheid activist who is the current Secretary General of the African National Congress. He served as the Premier of the Free State, one of South Africa's nine provinces, from 2009 until 2018.

Michael Levitt, is a South African-born Jewish biophysicist and a professor of structural biology at Stanford University, a position he has held since 1987. Levitt received the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, together with Martin Karplus and Arieh Warshel, for "the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems".

Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark is the youngest child and second daughter of King Paul of Greece and his wife Queen Frederica. She is the younger sister of Queen Sofía of Spain and of the deposed King Constantine II of Greece, Prince of Denmark and maternal aunt of king Felipe VI of Spain.