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93 Notable alumni of University of Pretoria

Updated: June 22, 2026 EliteDegrees

University of Pretoria is ranked #391 in the world and #3 in South Africa by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 93 notable alumni from University of Pretoria sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with University of Pretoria won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.

Marang Molosiwa

1. Marang Molosiwa

1992-. (aged 34)
television presenter philanthropist entrepreneur actor radio drama actor
Marang Rami Selolwane is a Motswana Television Host and Actress. She hosted the television programme Mantlwaneng. She appeared in the television drama series MTV Shuga in 2020 as the only actress from Botswana.
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Burger Lambrechts

2. Burger Lambrechts

1973-. (aged 53)
athletics competitor
Burger Lambrechts is a South African shot putter.
Paul Bosch

3. Paul Bosch

1984-. (aged 42)
rugby union player
Paul Bosch is a professional German rugby union player, of South African origin. He usually plays as a centre.
Anton Robert Krueger

4. Anton Robert Krueger

1971-. (aged 55)
poet
Anton Robert Krueger is a South African playwright, poet and academic. His plays have been staged in South Africa, as well as in England, Wales, Australia, the USA, Monaco, Venezuela, Argentina and Chile. He has published under the pseudonyms of Martin de Porres, Robert Krueger, A.R. Krueger, Perd Booysen (in collaboration with Pravasan Pillay) and Sybrand Baard (in collaboration with...
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Attiya Waris

5. Attiya Waris

1974-. (aged 52)
writer professor
Attiya Waris is a Kenyan professor at the University of Nairobi and a writer about financing development from diverse perspectives including illicit financial flows and corporate tax reform. She became the UN Independent Expert on Foreign Debt and Human Rights in 2021. She is the Chair of the Supervisory Board of the Capabuild Foundation and a Commissioner on the Lancet-O’Neil...
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Saurabh Sinha

6. Saurabh Sinha

researcher
Saurabh Sinha is an influential South African engineer and a Deputy Vice Chancellor for Research and Internationalisation at the University of Johannesburg. He was previously the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment at the University of Johannesburg. He formerly served as Director of the Carl and Emily Fuchs Institute for Microelectronics at the University of...
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Sirajuddin Hamid Yousuf

7. Sirajuddin Hamid Yousuf

1953-. (aged 73)
diplomat politician
Sirajuddin Hamid Yousuf is a Sudanese diplomat and is the current Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Sudan to the Russian Federation, presenting his credentials to President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev on 16 January 2009.
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Bettine van Vuuren

8. Bettine van Vuuren

university teacher zoologist
Bettine van Vuuren is the Registrar and a Member of the Executive at the University of Johannesburg. She is also a Professor of Zoology and Director of the Centre for Ecological Genomics and Wildlife Conservation at the University of Johannesburg.
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Johannes P. Louw

9. Johannes P. Louw

1932-2011 (aged 79)
translator
Johannes Petrus Louw was the editor of the Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament Based on Semantic Domains (UBS, 1988, with Eugene Nida). He also developed an approach to linguistics which became known as South African Discourse Analysis.
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Gerhardus Pienaar

10. Gerhardus Pienaar

1981-. (aged 45)
javelin thrower
Gerhardus "Hardus" Pienaar is a South African javelin thrower. His personal best throw is 84.50 metres, achieved in October 2003 in Hyderabad. He was the 2000 Junior World Champion. He is considered to be one of the greatest javelin throwers in South African history.
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Éliane Droubry

11. Éliane Droubry

1987-. (aged 39)
swimmer
Éliane Dohi Droubry is an Ivorian international competition swimmer.
Dihan Slabbert

12. Dihan Slabbert

1982-. (aged 44)
composer singer
Dihan Slabbert, is a South African singer, performer, composer, producer, musician, and songwriter. He is best known as one of the lead vocalists in the South African pop group, Hi-5.
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Nana Oye Lithur

13. Nana Oye Lithur

minister lawyer politician
Nana Oye Bampoe Addo, formerly known as Nana Oye Lithur, is a Ghanaian barrister and a politician. She is a human rights advocate. She is currently the Deputy Chief of Staff at the Office of the President in Ghana.
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Danie Faasen

14. Danie Faasen

1989-. (aged 37)
rugby union player
Daniel Cornelius Faasen is a South African rugby union player.
Junita Kloppers-Lourens

15. Junita Kloppers-Lourens

historian politician
Junita Carolina Kloppers-Lourens is a South African politician and former educationist, a Member of Parliament with the Democratic Alliance (DA). She served as the Shadow Minister of Science & Technology from 2012 to 2014.
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Jacques Coetzer

16. Jacques Coetzer

1968-. (aged 58)
sculptor
Jacques Coetzer is an alt pop artist, based in South Africa. His conceptual approach fuses traditional and new media; social engagement is a key part of his practice and his projects often invite public participation. Over a span of two decades his art has evolved from sculptural object making to an action-based approach. Much of Jacques Coetzer's art employs artistic...
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Sipho Sepamla

17. Sipho Sepamla

1932-2007 (aged 75)
novelist poet short story writer
Sydney Sipho Sepamla was a contemporary South African poet and novelist.
Anselm van der Linde

18. Anselm van der Linde

1970-. (aged 56)
Catholic priest
Anselm van der Linde O.Cist. is a Cistercian abbot of the common observance, an Austrian citizen born in South Africa. He was Abbot of the Territorial Abbey of Wettingen-Mehrerau from 2009 to 2018.
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Kudzanai Chiurai

19. Kudzanai Chiurai

1981-. (aged 45)
painter video artist lithographer video installation artist graffiti artist
Kudzanai Chiurai is a Zimbabwean artist and activist. His repertoire of art combines the use of mixed media which involves the use of paintings, drawings, videos and photographs to address and tackle social, political and cultural issues in Zimbabwe.
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Jacques Cronjé

20. Jacques Cronjé

1982-. (aged 44)
rugby union player
Jacques Cronjé is a former South African rugby union footballer who played as a loose forward for the Springboks and for Racing Métro 92 Paris in the French Top 14. He is the brother of Geo Cronjé, who also played for South Africa.
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Charl du Plessis

21. Charl du Plessis

1977-. (aged 49)
pianist
Charl Petrus du Plessis is a South African classical and jazz pianist. He is one of five South African Steinway artists and has won two South African Music Awards in 2017 and 2018. For the past 20 years he has been the pianist for South African singer-songwriter Nataniël. He is also the founder and pianist of the Charl du Plessis...
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Jeanne Zaidel-Rudolph

22. Jeanne Zaidel-Rudolph

1948-. (aged 78)
composer
Jeanne Zaidel-Rudolph OIB is a South African composer, pianist and teacher. She was the first woman in South Africa to obtain a doctorate in composition. She arranged the composition of the South African national anthem and also wrote its final verse.
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Hilgard Muller

23. Hilgard Muller

1914-1985 (aged 71)
diplomat minister politician
Hilgard Muller, DMS was a South African politician of the National Party, Mayor of Pretoria in 1953–1955, elected an MP in 1958, appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs after the resignation of Eric Louw in 1964. He relinquished both posts in 1977. Studying at the University of Pretoria, he obtained a Rhodes Scholarship at the University of Oxford, earning a doctorate...
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Ferdinand Hartzenberg

24. Ferdinand Hartzenberg

1936-2021 (aged 85)
minister farmer politician
Ferdinand Hartzenberg was a South African politician and the second and last leader of the Conservative Party in South Africa between 1993 and its merger with the Freedom Front in 2004. He obtained a DSc (Agriculture) from the University of Pretoria.
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Calie Pistorius

25. Calie Pistorius

1958-. (aged 68)
academic
Carl Wilhelm Irene "Calie" Pistorius is a South African electrical engineer who is a former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hull, Kingston upon Hull, United Kingdom. He announced, on 1 August 2016, that he would be stepping down from this role at the end of January 2017. His successor at Hull was Professor Susan Lea.
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Carla Gericke

26. Carla Gericke

1972-. (aged 54)
lawyer
Carla Gericke is an author, activist, and attorney. Born in South Africa, she immigrated to the United States in the 1990s after winning a green card in the Diversity Visa Lottery. She became a U.S. citizen in 2000. Gericke practiced law in South Africa, and California, working at Apple Computer, Borland, Logitech, and Scient Corporation. Gericke is President Emeritus of...
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Johan van Heerden

27. Johan van Heerden

1986-. (aged 40)
rugby union player
Johannes Petrus van Heerden is a Romanian rugby union player of South African background. He plays as lock, and occasionally flanker.
Tsakane Valentine Maswanganyi

28. Tsakane Valentine Maswanganyi

1979-. (aged 47)
opera singer
Tsakane Valentine Maswanganyi is a South African classical soprano. She first came to public notice as a member of the opera band Amici Forever.
Albert Geyser

29. Albert Geyser

1918-1985 (aged 67)
theologian
Albertus Stephanus Geyser (10 February 1918 – 13 June 1985) was a South African cleric, scholar and anti-apartheid theologian. Geyser became an outcast in the white Afrikaner community because of his theological opposition to apartheid and to the Broederbond, the secret male Calvinist organisation that covertly steered South African politics during the apartheid era. He obtained master's and doctoral degrees...
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Renée Hložek

30. Renée Hložek

1983-. (aged 43)
research fellow astronomer cosmologist
Renée Hložek is a South African cosmologist, Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics at the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics at the University of Toronto, and an Azrieli Global Scholar within the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. She studies the cosmic microwave background, Type Ia supernova and baryon acoustic oscillations. She was named a Sloan Research Fellow in 2020, and...
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Austin Roberts

31. Austin Roberts

1883-1948 (aged 65)
scientific collector ornithologist zoologist
Austin Roberts was a South African zoologist. He is best known for his Birds of South Africa, first published in 1940. He also studied the mammalian fauna of the region: his work The mammals of South Africa was published posthumously in 1951. The 7th edition of Roberts' Birds of Southern Africa which appeared in 2005, is the standard work on...
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Dire Tladi

32. Dire Tladi

1975-. (aged 51)
lawyer
Dire Tladi is a professor of international law at the Department of Public Law and the Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa at the University of Pretoria. He is also extraordinary professor at the Public Law Department of the University of Stellenbosch. He has served as the Principal State Law Adviser for International Law for the South African...
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Sindisiwe van Zyl

33. Sindisiwe van Zyl

1976-2021 (aged 45)
researcher columnist broadcaster disc jockey health activist
Sindisiwe van Zyl was a Zimbabwean-born South African physician, radio DJ, columnist, health activist and researcher known for using social and mainstream media to share HIV-related, mental health, reproductive health, other medical and public health information. She won several awards for her work. Because of her extensive public health advocacy, she was known as "the people's doctor".
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Wynand Olivier

34. Wynand Olivier

1983-. (aged 43)
rugby union player
Wynand Olivier is a former South African professional rugby union player.His usual position was at centre.
Eli Snyman

35. Eli Snyman

1996-. (aged 30)
rugby union player
Eli Colin Snyman is a Zimbabwean rugby union player for Benetton. He previously played for English Premiership Rugby side Leicester Tigers between 2021 and 2023. He also played for Benetton between 2019 and 2023 and for the Bulls and Blue Bulls in South Africa. In January 2026, Ulster Rugby announced that Snyman had signed a 2 year contract with the...
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Godfrey Khotso Mokoena

36. Godfrey Khotso Mokoena

1985-. (aged 41)
athletics competitor
Godfrey Khotso Mokoena OIB is a South African athlete who specializes in the long jump and triple jump.
Amanda Strydom

37. Amanda Strydom

1956-. (aged 70)
singer actor
Amanda Strydom is a South African singer and songwriter. Although she is known best for her singing, Strydom has also been active as a playwright and actress, most notably in cabaret and television.
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L. J. van Zyl

38. L. J. van Zyl

1985-. (aged 41)
athletics competitor
Louis Jacobus van Zyl, better known as L. J. van Zyl, is a retired South African athlete who competed in the 400 metre hurdles. He is the South African record holder in the event with a personal best of 47.66 seconds, which he achieved twice, three months apart. His time ranks him in the all-time top 25. He is a...
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Eugene Cussons

39. Eugene Cussons

1979-. (aged 47)
primatologist
Eugene Cussons was the Managing Director of Chimp Eden as well as Rescue Director of the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) in South Africa. He is also the host of Animal Planet's Escape to Chimp Eden, author of the book Saving Chimpanzees and is the Executive Director and Ambassador of the "Generation Now" movement.
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Gary Botha

40. Gary Botha

1981-. (aged 45)
rugby league player rugby union player
Gary van Ginkel Botha is a former rugby union player, that professionally played as a hooker between 2002 and 2013. He spent the majority of his career at his home-town team the Blue Bulls and their affiliated Super Rugby team the Bulls, but he also had spells at the Sharks, at English side Harlequins and at French Top 14 side...
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Amitabh Mitra

41. Amitabh Mitra

poet
Amitabh Mitra is an Indian-born South African physician, poet and artist.
Christof Heyns

42. Christof Heyns

1959-2021 (aged 62)
jurist university teacher
Christoffel Hendrik Heyns was a Professor of Human Rights Law, Director of the Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa at the University of Pretoria and a South African member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee. He served as United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions from 2010 to 2016. Heyns was a visiting professor...
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Benjamin Richardson

43. Benjamin Richardson

2003-. (aged 23)
athletics competitor
Benjamin Richardson is an Irish track and field athlete who competes in 100 m and 200 m sprint events. In 2025, Richardson switched his sporting allegiance from South Africa to Ireland, his country of birth.
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Tinus de Beer

44. Tinus de Beer

1996-. (aged 30)
rugby union player
Marthinus Herbert de Beer is a South African rugby union player who plays for the Dragons in the United Rugby Championship as a fly-half. He previously played for the Blue Bulls, Griquas, Pumas, And Cardiff.
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Stevens Mokgalapa

45. Stevens Mokgalapa

1977-. (aged 49)
politician
Stevens Mokgalapa is a South African politician who served as the Mayor of Tshwane from 2019 to 2020. A former member of the Democratic Alliance (DA), he served as a Member of the National Assembly from 2009 to 2019. Within the DA's Shadow Cabinet, he served as Shadow Deputy Minister of International Relations and Co-operation from 2009 to 2012, as...
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Mbulaeni Mulaudzi

46. Mbulaeni Mulaudzi

1980-2014 (aged 34)
athletics competitor middle-distance runner
Mbulaeni Tongai Mulaudzi OIB was a South African middle-distance runner, and the 2009 world champion in the men's 800 metres.
Christopher Pappas

47. Christopher Pappas

1991-. (aged 35)
politician
Christopher John Pappas is a South African politician who is the mayor of the uMngeni Local Municipality. A member of the Democratic Alliance, he served as party's deputy provincial leader from 2021 until 2023. Pappas served as a member of the eThekwini city council from 2016 until 2019 and as a DA Member of the KwaZulu-Natal Legislature from 2019 to...
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Carrol Boyes

48. Carrol Boyes

1954-2019 (aged 65)
artist
Carrol Boyes was a South African artist, businesswoman, and former teacher, best known as the founder of the Carrol Boyes Kitchen and eating utensil design company.
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Carel Boshoff

49. Carel Boshoff

1927-2011 (aged 84)
university teacher writer politician
Carel Willem Hendrik Boshoff was a South African professor of theology and Afrikaner nationalist.
Ummy Mwalimu

50. Ummy Mwalimu

1973-. (aged 53)
politician minister
Ummy Ally Mwalimu is a Tanzanian politician belonging to the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party. She is currently a Member of Parliament for Tanga Constituency and most recently served as the Minister of Health until August 2024, when she was succeeded by Jenista Mhagama. She has held various cabinet positions since 2010. She is a third-term Member of Parliament,...
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Natasha Mazzone

51. Natasha Mazzone

1979-. (aged 47)
politician
Natasha Wendy Anita Mazzone MP OSI is a South African politician who served as the Chief Whip of the Official Opposition in the National Assembly of South Africa from October 2019 until August 2022. She has been a member of the National Assembly, representing the Democratic Alliance (DA), since 2009. She was the second Deputy Federal Council Chairperson of the...
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Michael R. Licona

52. Michael R. Licona

1961-. (aged 65)
historian
Michael R. "Mike" Licona is an American New Testament scholar, author, and Christian apologist. He is Professor of New Testament Studies at Houston Christian University, Extraordinary Associate Professor of Theology at North-West University and the director of Risen Jesus, Inc. Licona specializes in the resurrection of Jesus, and in the literary analysis of the Gospels as Greco-Roman biographies.
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Mignon du Preez

53. Mignon du Preez

1989-. (aged 37)
cricketer
Mignon du Preez is a South African former cricketer, who was the women's team captain in all three forms of cricket, Test matches, ODIs and T20Is, from 2007 to 2018. A right-handed batter and occasional wicket-keeper, du Preez made her debut for the South Africa national women's cricket team in January 2007, aged seventeen. Besides being the South African player...
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Gerhard van den Heever

54. Gerhard van den Heever

1989-. (aged 37)
rugby union player
Gerhard Jacobus van den Heever is a South African-born Japanese rugby union player for the Sunwolves in Super Rugby and Kubota Spears in the Top League. His regular playing position is as a wing.
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Mimi Coertse

55. Mimi Coertse

1932-. (aged 94)
opera singer
Maria Sophia Coertse, DMS (born 12 June 1932) is a South African soprano.
Solly Msimanga

56. Solly Msimanga

1980-. (aged 46)
politician
Solly Tshepiso Msimanga is a South African politician serving as the Leader of the Opposition in the Gauteng Provincial Legislature since May 2019. He has been a Member of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature since February 2019, having previously served from 2014 to 2016. He is also the Provincial Leader of the Democratic Alliance, having been elected in 2020. Msimanga was...
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Johannes Geldenhuys

57. Johannes Geldenhuys

1954-2018 (aged 64)
military personnel
General Johannes Jacobus Geldenhuys SSA SD SOE SM MMM (5 February 1935 – 10 September 2018) was a South African military commander who served as Chief of the South African Defence Force from 1985 to 1990.
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Ernst Roets

58. Ernst Roets

1985-. (aged 41)
filmmaker political activist writer
Ernst Alex Roets is a South African writer and filmmaker. He is the Executive Director of Lex Libertas.
Pierre Spies

59. Pierre Spies

1985-. (aged 41)
rugby union player
Pierre Johan Spies is a retired South African rugby union player. He usually played as a Number 8, but could also play as a flanker and at times was deployed on the wing. Between 2005 and 2015, he spent the majority of his career playing Super Rugby for the Bulls and domestic South African rugby for the Blue Bulls, followed...
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Fourie du Preez

60. Fourie du Preez

1982-. (aged 44)
rugby union player
Petrus Fourie du Preez is a South African former professional rugby union player who played as a scrum-half for the Bulls between 2001 and 2011, and for Suntory Sungoliath in Japan from 2011 to 2016. He represented South Africa from 2004 to 2015, earning 76 caps and scoring 16 tries. Du Preez played in three Rugby World Cup tournaments and...
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Koos Kombuis

61. Koos Kombuis

1954-. (aged 72)
singer songwriter writer
Koos Kombuis is a South African musician, singer, songwriter and writer who became famous as part of a group of anti-establishment maverick Afrikaans musicians, who, under the collective name of Voëlvry (directly translated meaning "Free as a bird"; in Afrikaans "voëlvry" is often potentially "synonymous" to the words "fugitive" and "outlaw"), toured campuses across South Africa in the 1980s, to...
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Koos du Plessis

62. Koos du Plessis

1945-1984 (aged 39)
writer songwriter poet singer
Jacobus Johannes du Plessis (10 May 1945 – 15 January 1984) was a prominent South African singer-songwriter and poet, colloquially known as Koos Doep. Although he received critical acclaim for much of his work, he became best known for the runaway success of a rendition of his song "Kinders van die Wind" ("Children of the Wind") by Laurika Rauch.
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Rohan Janse van Rensburg

63. Rohan Janse van Rensburg

1994-. (aged 32)
rugby union player
Rohan Janse van Rensburg is a South African professional rugby union player for South African United Rugby Championship side the Sharks. His regular position is inside centre.
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Melinda Bam

64. Melinda Bam

1989-. (aged 37)
model beauty pageant contestant
Melinda Bam is a South African TV host, model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss South Africa 2011, becoming the official representative of her country to Miss Universe 2012. She has a swimwear line called Bambshell, for which she worked with South African swimwear brand.
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Pik Botha

65. Pik Botha

1932-2018 (aged 86)
lawyer diplomat minister politician
Roelof Frederik "Pik" Botha, DMS MP was a South African politician who served as the country's foreign minister in the last years of the apartheid era, the longest-serving in South African history. Known as a liberal within the party, Botha served to present a friendly, conciliatory face on the regime, while criticised internally. He was a leading contender for the...
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Constand Viljoen

66. Constand Viljoen

1933-2020 (aged 87)
military personnel politician
General Constand Laubscher Viljoen SSA SD SOE SM MMM was a South African Army officer and politician. He co-founded the Afrikaner Volksfront (Afrikaner People's Front) and later founded the Freedom Front (which in turn merged into the Freedom Front Plus before the 2004 election).
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Herman Mashaba

67. Herman Mashaba

1959-. (aged 67)
businessperson
Herman Samtseu Philip Mashaba is a South African politician, entrepreneur and the current president of ActionSA, a party he launched on 29 August 2020. He served as the Mayor of Johannesburg from 2016 to 2019. He is the founder of the hair product company Black Like Me. He is famous in South Africa for his background: he grew up struggling...
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Akani Simbine

68. Akani Simbine

1993-. (aged 33)
athletics competitor
Akani Simbine is a South African sprinter specialising in the 100 metres event. He was fifth at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the men's 100 metres and was the 100 metres African record holder with a time of 9.84 seconds set in July 2021 until broken by Ferdinand Omanyala in September 2021.
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Cameron van der Burgh

69. Cameron van der Burgh

1988-. (aged 38)
swimmer
Cameron van der Burgh OIS is a retired South African competitive swimmer and hedge fund analyst. He is Africa's first home-trained world record holder and individual male Olympic champion. He is married to longtime partner Nefeli Valakelis.
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Naas Botha

70. Naas Botha

1958-. (aged 68)
rugby union player
Hendrik Egnatius 'Naas' Botha is a South African former rugby union player who played as a Fly-half for Northern Transvaal, Rugby Rovigo and South Africa (the Springboks).
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Lalela Mswane

71. Lalela Mswane

1997-. (aged 29)
model
Lalela Lali Mswane is a South African beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Supranational 2022. She previously won Miss South Africa 2021 and was second runner up at Miss Universe 2021.
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Bongani Khumalo

72. Bongani Khumalo

1987-. (aged 39)
association football player
Bongani Sandile Khumalo is a South African retired footballer who played as a centre-back.
Caster Semenya

73. Caster Semenya

1991-. (aged 35)
middle-distance runner
Caster Semenya OIB is a South African middle-distance runner and winner of two Olympic gold medals and three World Championships in the women's 800 metres. She first won gold at the World Championships in 2009 and went on to win at the 2016 Olympics and the 2017 World Championships, where she also won a bronze medal in the 1500 metres....
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Dricus du Plessis

74. Dricus du Plessis

1994-. (aged 32)
mixed martial arts fighter kickboxer
Dricus du Plessis, also known by his initials DDP, is a South African professional mixed martial artist. He currently competes in the Middleweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where he is the former UFC Middleweight Champion. He is the first South African to win a UFC championship. As of 19 August 2025, he is #1 in the UFC...
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Motsi Mabuse

75. Motsi Mabuse

1981-. (aged 45)
dancer choreographer television presenter
Motshegetsi "Motsi" Mabuse is a South African dancer who lives in Germany. She is known for appearing on the German dance competition Let's Dance, originally as a professional dancer, and later as a judge on the show, a position she has held since 2011. Since 2019, she has served as a judge on the original version, Strictly Come Dancing.
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Duhan van der Merwe

76. Duhan van der Merwe

1995-. (aged 31)
rugby union player
Duhan van der Merwe is a professional rugby union player who plays as a wing for Edinburgh in the United Rugby Championship (URC) and the Scotland national team. Born in South Africa, he represents Scotland having qualified on residency grounds.
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Joost van der Westhuizen

77. Joost van der Westhuizen

1971-2017 (aged 46)
rugby union player
Joost van der Westhuizen was a South African professional rugby union player who made 89 appearances in test matches for the national team, scoring 38 tries. He mostly played as a scrum-half and participated in three Rugby World Cups, most notably in the 1995 tournament, which was won by South Africa. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest...
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Handré Pollard

78. Handré Pollard

1994-. (aged 32)
rugby union player
Handré Pollard is a South African professional rugby union player who currently plays for the Bulls in the United Rugby Championship (URC) and the South Africa national team. His regular playing positions are fly-half, where he started for South Africa in their 2019 Rugby World Cup Final win, and inside-centre. He has previously played for the Blue Bulls in his...
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CJ Stander

79. CJ Stander

1990-. (aged 36)
rugby union player
Christiaan Johan Stander is a South African-born Irish former rugby union player. Stander's career began in his native South Africa, where he played for the Blue Bulls in the Currie Cup between 2010 and 2012 and for the Bulls in Super Rugby in 2012. He moved to Irish province Munster in 2012 and, after qualifying via residency in 2015, made...
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Victor Matfield

80. Victor Matfield

1977-. (aged 49)
rugby union player
Victor Matfield is a South African former professional rugby union player. He played for and captained the South Africa national team (Springboks) as well as the Blue Bulls in the Currie Cup and the Bulls franchise in Super Rugby. He is generally considered one of the best locks to have ever played for South Africa and had a long successful...
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Elon Musk

81. Elon Musk

1971-. (aged 55)
investor engineer inventor technology entrepreneur entrepreneur
Elon Reeve Musk is a businessman and entrepreneur known for his leadership of Tesla, SpaceX, Twitter, and xAI. Musk has been the wealthiest person in the world since 2025; as of February 2026, Forbes estimates his net worth to be around US$852 billion.
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Peter Johan Lor

82. Peter Johan Lor

1946-. (aged 80)
university teacher librarian library scientist
Peter Johan Lor is a South African librarian and library and information science scholar specialising in international librarianship.
Xaba Sbusiso

83. Xaba Sbusiso

1973-. (aged 53)
politician
Sbusiso Xaba is the national chairman of Pan Africanist Congress of Azania from 2019. He was elected in PAC Mangaung National Congress and re-elected in 2022 Polokwane Congress.
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Anja Marais

84. Anja Marais

1974-. (aged 52)
sculptor photographer artist
Anja Marais is a South African sculptor and multi-disciplinary artist. She has completed residencies in Japan, Korea, Russia and Florida and completed solo and group shows in Asia, Europe and the US.
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Wim Richter

85. Wim Richter

1946-2019 (aged 73)
scientist
Paul Wilhelm Richter was a South African chemist and principal researcher involved in bioceramic research activities. He is most widely known for his development of the bioceramic hydroxyapatite orbital implant.
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Tshilidzi Marwala

86. Tshilidzi Marwala

1971-. (aged 55)
computer scientist engineer
Tshilidzi Marwala is a South African artificial intelligence engineer, a computer scientist, a mechanical engineer and a university administrator. He is currently Rector of the United Nations University and UN Under-Secretary-General. In August 2023 Marwala was appointed to the United Nations scientific advisory council.
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Johan Heyns

87. Johan Heyns

1928-1994 (aged 66)
theologian
Johan Adam Heyns was an Afrikaner Calvinist theologian and moderator of the general synod of the Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk (NGK) in South Africa. He was assassinated at his home in Waterkloof Ridge, Pretoria.
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Antjie Krog

88. Antjie Krog

1952-. (aged 74)
writer playwright translator poet literary critic
Antjie Krog is a South African writer and academic, best known for her Afrikaans poetry, her reporting on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and her 1998 book Country of My Skull. In 2004, she joined the Arts faculty of the University of the Western Cape as Extraordinary Professor.
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Maye Musk

89. Maye Musk

1948-. (aged 78)
model dietitian
Maye Musk is a model and dietitian. She has been a model for 50 years, appearing on the covers of magazines, including a Time magazine health edition, Women's Day, international editions of Vogue, and Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. She is the mother of Elon Musk, Kimbal Musk and Tosca Musk. She holds Canadian, South African and American citizenship. She is...
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Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi

90. Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi

1960-. (aged 66)
politician minister
Geraldine Joslyn Fraser-Moleketi is a South African politician who was the Minister of Public Service and Administration from June 1999 to September 2008. Before that, from July 1996 to June 1999, she was Minister of Welfare and Population Development. She represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the National Assembly from 1994 to 2008 and is a former deputy chairperson...
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Joan Hambidge

91. Joan Hambidge

1956-. (aged 70)
poet writer
Joan Helene Hambidge, is an Afrikaans poet, literary theorist and academic. She is a prolific poet in Afrikaans, controversial as a public figure and critic and notorious for her out-of-the-closet style of writing. Her theoretic contributions deal mainly with Roland Barthes, deconstruction, postmodernism, psychoanalysis and metaphysics.
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Frederick Brownell

92. Frederick Brownell

1940-2019 (aged 79)
vexillologist heraldist
Frederick Gordon Brownell OMSS SM & Bar MMM KStJ was a South African herald, vexillologist, and genealogist.
Kipchumba Murkomen

93. Kipchumba Murkomen

1979-. (aged 47)
politician
Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen is a Kenyan lawyer and politician serving as the Cabinet Secretary for Ministry of Interior and National Administration. He is also the former Cabinet Secretary for Youth Affairs, Creative Economy and Sports and also former cabinet secretary for Roads, Transport, and Public Works in Kenya. Murkomen is an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya and a...
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