List of Famous people born in Western Cape, South Africa

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.

Shaun Bartlett is a South African former professional football striker. In December 2018, he became the assistant manager of Kaizer Chiefs F.C. in South Africa.

Francis William Reitz, Jr. was a South African lawyer, politician, statesman, publicist, and poet who was a member of parliament of the Cape Colony, Chief Justice and fifth State President of the Orange Free State, State Secretary of the South African Republic at the time of the Second Boer War, and the first president of the Senate of the Union of South Africa.

Henry Cornelius was a South African-born film director, producer, screenwriter and film editor. He directed five films between 1949 and 1958.

Peter de Villiers is a South African rugby union coach. He was coach of the South Africa national rugby union team from 2008 to 2011, after successes with the South African U19 and U21 squads, and the first-ever non-white to be appointed to the position.

Edwin Ronald "Eddie" Firmani is a retired footballer and manager. A former forward, he was born in South Africa, but represented Italy internationally.

Dorian Lance James is a male badminton player from South Africa.

Oliver Schmitz is a South African film director and screenwriter.

Denis Eugene Hurley was the South African Roman Catholic Vicar Apostolic of Natal and Bishop, and later Archbishop of Durban, from 1946 until 1992. He was born in Cape Town and spent his early years on Robben Island, where his father was the lighthouse keeper. In 1951, Hurley was appointed Archbishop of Durban and the youngest archbishop in the world at that time.

Tiaan Kannemeyer is a former South African cyclist. In 2002 he won the South African National Road Race Championships.