List of South Africans
This is a list of notable and famous South Africans who are the subjects of Wikipedia articles. == Academics == === Academics === Shulamith Behr, art historian (1946–2023) Estian Calitz, academic (born 1949) Jakes Gerwel, academic and anti-apartheid activist (1946–2012) Adam Habib, political scientist (born 1965) Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr, academic and politician (1894–1948) Thamsanqa Kambule, South African mathematician and educator (1921–2009) Loren Kruger, academic and author (born 1958) Tshilidzi Marwala, academic and businessman (born 1971) Revil Mason, archeologist (1929–2020) Shula Marks, historian (born 1938) Njabulo Ndebele, Principal of the University of Cape Town (born 1948) D. C. S. Oosthuizen, philosopher (1926–1968) Adriaan N. P. Pelzer, historian and Vice-Principal University Pretoria (1915–1981) Michiel Daniel Overbeek, South African amateur astronomer and prolific variable star observers (1920–2001) Pierre de Villiers Pienaar, pioneering role in speech language therapy and lexicography in South Africa (1904–1978) Calie Pistorius, academic and Principal of the University of Pretoria (born 1958) Milton Shain, academic and professor of Modern Jewish history at the University of Cape Town (born 1949) Benedict Wallet Vilakazi, author, educator, and first black South African to receive a PhD (1906–1947) David Webster, anthropologist (1945–1989) === Medical and veterinary === Abraham Manie Adelstein, UK Chief Medical Statistician (1916–1992) Christiaan Barnard, pioneering heart surgeon (1922–2001) Wouter Basson, medical scientist (born 1950) John Borthwick, veterinary surgeon in the Cape Colony (1867–1936) Mary Malahlela, first black woman to register as a medical doctor in South Africa (1916–1981) Joan Morice, first female veterinary surgeon in South Africa (1904–1944) Anna Coutsoudis, public health scientist (born 1952) Patrick Soon-Shiong, surgeon, founder Abraxis BioScience, billionaire (born 1952) Arnold Theiler, veterinarian (1867–1936) Max Theiler, virologist, 1951 Nobel Prize winner (1899–1972) Lindiwe Sidali, surgeon (born 1984) === Scientists === Andrew Geddes Bain, geologist (1797–1864) Peter Beighton, geneticist (1934–2023) Wilhelm Bleek, linguist (1827–1875) Robert Broom, palaeontologist (1866–1951) Sydney Brenner, biologist, 2002 Physiology or Medicine Nobel Prize winner (1927–2019) Phillip Clancey, ornithologist (1918–2001) Allan McLeod Cormack, physicist (1924–1998) Zodwa Dlamini, biochemist Clement Martyn Doke, linguist (1893–1980) Mulalo Doyoyo, professor and inventor (born 1970) Edward Stuart Cardinal Dyke, botanist, (1872-1915) Alexander du Toit, geologist (1878–1948) Robert Allen Dyer, botanist (1900–1987) Melville Edelstein, sociologist, killed due to Soweto uprising (1919–1976) Wendy Foden, conservation biologist J. W. B. Gunning, zoologist (1860–1913) Quarraisha Abdool Karim, Associate Scientific Director of the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA) (born 1960) Salim Abdool Karim, South African epidemiologist and infectious diseases specialist (born 1960) David Lewis-Williams, archaeologist (born 1934) Lucy Lloyd, anthropologist (1834–1914) Thebe Medupe, astrophysicist (born 1973) Hans Merensky, geologist (1871–1952) Mabel Nevill, human computer (1865–1958) Austin Roberts, zoologist (1883–1948) Peter Sarnak, mathematician (born 1953) Ramotholo Sefako, astrophysicist (born 1971) Buyisiwe Sondezi, physicist (born 1976) Basil Schonland, physicist (1896–1972) J. L. B. Smith, ichthyologist (1897–1968) Phillip Tobias, palaeontologist (1925–2012) === Theologians === Also see: Prelates, clerics and evangelists David Bosch (1929–1992) John W. de Gruchy (born 1939) Dion Forster (born 1972) Johan Heyns (1928–1994) == Writers == === Authors === Lady Anne Barnard, travel writer and artist (1750–1825) Herman Charles Bosman, author (1905–1951) André Brink, author (1935–2015) Justin Cartwright, novelist (1943–2018) J. M. Coetzee, 2003 Nobel Prize-winning author (born 1940) K. Sello Duiker, novelist (1974–2005) Sir Percy FitzPatrick, writer, businessman and politician (1862–1931) Graeme Friedman, author and clinical psychologist Damon Galgut, author (born 1963) Nadine Gordimer, 1991 Nobel Prize-winning author (1923–2014) Alfred Hutchinson, South African author, teacher and activist (1924–1972) C. J. Langenhoven, writer and poet (1873–1932) Pule Lechesa, essayist, literary critic, and poet (born 1976) Kgotso Pieter David Maphalla, the Sesotho language writer (1955–2021) Dalene Matthee, author (1938–2005) Gcina Mhlope, author, storyteller, playwright, director, actor (born 1959) Deon Meyer, author (born 1958) Phaswane Mpe, novelist (1970–2004) Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh, author and musician (born 1989) Alan Paton, author (1903–1988) Margaret Roberts, herbalist and writer (1937–2017) Karel Schoeman, novelist and historian (1939–2017) Olive Schreiner, author (1855–1920) Mongane Wally Serote, poet and writer (born 8 May 1944) Wilbur Smith, novelist (1933–2021) J. R. R. Tolkien, author of The Lord of The Rings (1892–1973) Etienne van Heerden, novelist (born 1956) Marlene van Niekerk, novelist (born 1954) Lyall Watson, writer (1939–2008) David Yudelman, writer Rachel Zadok, London-based South African writer (born 1972) === Editors === Kojo Baffoe, magazine editor (born 1972) Khanyi Dhlomo, magazine editor (born 1975) Laurence Gandar, Rand Daily Mail editor (1915–1998) Niel Hammann, editor of magazines (born 1937) John Tengo Jabavu, political activist and newspaper editor (1859–1921) Aggrey Klaaste, journalist and editor (1940–2004) Max du Preez, newspaper editor (born 1951) === Poets === See also: South African poets and Afrikaans language poets Roy Campbell, poet (1901–1957) Judy Croome, poet (born 1958) Sheila Cussons, poet (1922–2004) Jonty Driver (1939–2023) Jakob Daniël du Toit, poet a.k.a.