List of Famous people born in South Africa
Jacques du Plessis
Willem Hendrik Jacques "Sheep" du Plessis is a South African rugby union player, currently playing in France with the French Top 14 side Montpellier. His regular positions are flanker or lock.
Kelvin van der Linde
Kelvin van der Linde is a South African racing driver currently competing in the Intercontinental GT Challenge, GT World Challenge Europe and ADAC GT Masters. He made his GT Masters debut in 2014, also winning the championship that year, a feat he repeated in 2019. He won the 2017 24 Hours of Nurburgring.
Neil Sandilands
Neil Joseph William Sandilands is a South African actor and filmmaker, known for roles in both film and television. In 2016, he had recurring roles on SundanceTV's Hap and Leonard as Paco and The CW's The 100 as Titus. In 2017, he joined the main cast of The CW series The Flash, playing Clifford DeVoe / The Thinker.
Kandyse McClure
Candice "Kandyse" McClure is a South African-born Canadian actress. She has played Anastasia Dualla on the Sci Fi Channel's television program Battlestar Galactica, and Dr. Clementine Chasseur on the Netflix original series Hemlock Grove.
Kim Engelbrecht
Kim Suzanne Engelbrecht is a South African actress best known for her roles as Lolly de Klerk in the soap opera Isidingo, Sgt. Noma Banks on the Syfy TV show, Dominion, and Marlize DeVoe on The CW show, The Flash.
Nathalie Boltt
Nathalie Boltt is a South African actress, known in the country for her role as Joey Ortlepp in the SABC 3 soap opera Isidingo from 2001 to 2004. She is also known for portraying evil villain “Penelope Blossom“ in The CW’s teen drama series “Riverdale” since 2017. She is a graduate of Rhodes University, and currently lives in Wellington, New Zealand.
Caren Pistorius
Caren Pistorius is a South African-born New Zealand actress best known for portraying Rose in the 2015 film Slow West.
Demetri Catrakilis
Demetri Catrakilis is a South African professional rugby union player for the Southern Kings in the Pro14. He previously played for Premiership side Harlequins, Top 14 side Montpellier, for the Stormers and the Southern Kings in Super Rugby, for Western Province in the Currie Cup and Vodacom Cup competition and for the UCT Ikey Tigers in the Varsity Cup.
Caron Bernstein
Caron Bernstein is a South African model, actress, and singer-songwriter. She was born in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Hekkie Budler
Hector "Hekkie" Budler is a South African professional boxer. He is a two-weight world champion, having held the unified WBA (Super), IBF, and The Ring light-flyweight titles in 2018, and the IBO and WBA minimumweight titles between 2011 and 2016.