List of Famous people born in South Africa
Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters
Demi-Leigh Tebow is a South African model and beauty queen who was crowned Miss Universe 2017. She was crowned Miss South Africa 2017, and is the second Miss Universe winner from South Africa, following Margaret Gardiner who was crowned Miss Universe 1978.
Roger Michell
Roger Michell is a British theatre, television and film director.
Kyle Edmund
Kyle Steven Edmund is a British professional tennis player. He is a former world top 20 player and Australian Open semi-finalist (2018), and was the top-ranked male British tennis player from March 2018 until October 2019.
Louis Oosthuizen
Lodewicus Theodorus "Louis" Oosthuizen is a South African professional golfer who won the 2010 Open Championship. He also holds the distinction of finishing runner-up in all four major championships: the 2012 Masters Tournament losing in a sudden death playoff, the 2015 U.S. Open, the 2015 Open Championship where he was defeated in a four-hole aggregate playoff, and the 2017 PGA Championship. He is the eighth golfer to accomplish this feat, joining Craig Wood, Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Tom Watson, Greg Norman, Dustin Johnson and Phil Mickelson. His highest placing on the Official World Golf Ranking is fourth which he reached in January 2013.
Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa
Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa is a South African politician serving as President of South Africa since 2018 and President of the African National Congress (ANC) since 2017. Previously an anti-apartheid activist, trade union leader and businessman, Ramaphosa served as Deputy President to President Jacob Zuma and Chairman of the National Planning Commission from 2014 to 2018.
Jason Roy
Jason Jonathan Roy is a South-African-born English cricketer who plays for England in all formats, and for Surrey County Cricket Club in domestic cricket. He was a part of the England squad that won the 2019 Cricket World Cup, and he holds the record for the highest individual One Day International (ODI) innings by an England batsman. As of December 2020, Roy is ranked seventeenth in ODI batting, and twenty-third in T20I batting rankings according to the ICC Player Rankings.
Kyle Steyn
Kyle Douglas Steyn is a Scotland international rugby union player. His regular position is centre or wing
Wayde van Niekerk
Wayde van Niekerk is a South African track and field sprinter who competes in the 200 and 400 metres. In the 400 metres, he is the current world and Olympic record holder, and Olympic champion. He also holds the world-best time in the 300 metres.
Zozibini Tunzi
Zozibini Tunzi is a South African model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Universe 2019. Tunzi had previously been crowned Miss South Africa 2019. She is the third woman from South Africa to win the title, and the first black woman since Angolan Leila Lopes was crowned Miss Universe 2011.
Lloyd Harris
Lloyd George Muirhead Harris is a South African tennis player.