List of South Africans

A list of notable South Africans.

Christiaan Barnard, heart surgeon
Steve Biko, political activist
Herman Charles Bosman, author
Louis Botha, statesman
John Michael Coetzee, Nobel Prize-winning author, twice 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