List of Famous people born in South Africa

Reinardt Janse van Rensburg is a South African professional road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Team Qhubeka Assos. He previously rode for Dutch UCI ProTeam Argos–Shimano. He is no relation to fellow professional cyclist Jacques Janse van Rensburg.

David George is a South African cyclist. He cycled on the USPS team 1999-2000, and later for Barloworld. In 2003 he won the South African National Road Race Championships. He also competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics, the 2000 Summer Olympics and the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Peter Youngblood Hills is an Anglo-American actor. He is perhaps best known for his supporting role of Sgt. Darrell "Shifty" Powers in HBO’s World War II mini-series, Band of Brothers.

Rudolf August Wilkens Straeuli is a former South African rugby union player and coach and currently the CEO of the Lions Rugby Company. He played in the positions of flanker and Number 8, making ten test appearances for South Africa in 1994 and 1995. He was the coach of the Springboks rugby team in 2002 and 2003. He also played for the Golden Lions provincial team in the Currie Cup and Super 12 competitions.

Sandra le Grange is a South African female badminton player. In 2013, she won bronze medal at the African Badminton Championships in women's doubles event with her partner Elme de Villiers.

Jody Williams is a South African pop/R&B singer. She won the fourth season of the South African reality television singing competition Idols on 9 December 2007 at age 17, making her the youngest winner of the competition until 2017, when Paxton Fielies won the Competition at age 17.

Steve Komphela is a South African football manager, former footballer, and a philosopher. He is the former manager of Maritzburg United, Kaizer Chiefs, and Bloemfontein Celtic. He is currently managing Mamelodi Sundowns in the Premier Soccer League.

John Witherow is a British newspaper editor, currently with The Times. A former journalist with Reuters, he joined News International in 1980 and was appointed editor of The Sunday Times in 1994 and editor of The Times in 2013.

Stewart Wilken AKA "Boetie Boer" is a convicted serial killer from South Africa. Wilken is regarded as a highly unusual serial killer, having killed individuals from two distinct victim types: female prostitutes and young boys. Wilken killed from 1990 until he was arrested in January 1997. He was active in Port Elizabeth, on the east coast of South Africa.