List of South Africans

Redirected from South African A list of notable South Africans.

• Christiaan Barnard, heart surgeon
• Stephen Biko, political activist
• Herman Charles Bosman, author
• Louis Botha[?], statesman
• John Michael Coetzee[?], author, winner of the Booker Prize
• Clement Martyn Doke, linguist
• Ernie Els, golfer
• Nadine Gordimer, Nobel Prize-winning author
• F.W. de Klerk, statesman and joint Nobel Peace Prize winner
• Paul Kruger, statesman
• Albert Luthuli[?], statesman and Nobel Peace Prize winner
• Nelson Mandela, statesman and joint Nobel Peace Prize winner
• Dave Matthews, musician
• Harry Oppenheimer, businessman
• Alan Paton, author
• Gary Player[?], golfer
• Trevor Rabin[?], musician
• Olive Schreiner, author
• Jody Scheckter, Formula 1 world champion
• Shaka, founder of the Zulu nation
• Mark Shuttleworth[?], Web entrepreneur, founder of Thawte[?], astronaut
• Jan Smuts, statesman
• Charlize Theron, actress
• Desmond Tutu, cleric and Nobel Peace Prize winner
• Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd[?], former Prime Minister