List of Famous people born in South Africa
Nicholas Wright
Nicholas Verney Wright is a British dramatist.
Jacobus Venter
Jacobus Venter is a South African racing cyclist, who currently rides for amateur mountain biking team First Move.
Mathews Phosa
Nakedi Mathews Phosa is a South African attorney and politician and was also an anti-apartheid activist. He is a former premier of Mpumalanga as well as a member of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress (ANC). Phosa ran for President of the ANC in 2017 lost to Cyril Ramaphosa.
Heather Ford
Heather Ford is a South African researcher, blogger, journalist, social entrepreneur and open source activist who has worked in the field of Internet policy, law and management in South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States. She is the founder of Creative Commons South Africa. She has studied the nature of power within Wikipedia and is a researcher at the University of Leeds.
Victor Gomes
Victor Miguel de Freitas Gomes is a South African football referee.
Gary Levinsohn
Gary Levinsohn is an American film producer. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, along with Steven Spielberg, Ian Bryce, Mark Gordon for the film Saving Private Ryan. He is the co-owner of Mutual Film Company.
Jan du Plessis
Jan Petrus du Plessis is the non-executive chairman of BT Group, and is the former non-executive Chairman of Rio Tinto Group plc, and a former non-executive director of the Lloyds TSB Group. Du Plessis was placed tenth in The Times 2006 Power 100, a list which rates the most powerful people in British business.
Bulelani Mabhayi
Bulelani Mabhayi, also known as the "Monster of Tholeni", is a South African serial killer and rapist who has been sentenced for the murder of 20 people.
Dilana
Dilana Smith is a South African singer, songwriter, and performer who lives in Los Angeles, California. She is best known as the runner-up contestant on the CBS reality television show Rock Star: Supernova. She was the lead singer for Tracii Guns' version of L.A. Guns for a brief period in 2011.
Louis van Schoor
Sybrand Jacobus Lodewikus "Louis" van Schoor, known as The Apartheid Killer, is a South African serial killer, former policeman and security guard who committed murders between 1986 and 1989. He was convicted of seven murders and two assassinations. However, in an interview, he did not deny murdering more than 100 people.