Born on South Africa
15 famous people found
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Charlize Theron
American actress and producer
1975 -
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor who is best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion
1892 - 1973 -
Elon MUSK
Engineer, industrial designer, and technology entrepreneur, founder, CEO and chief engineer/designer of SpaceX
1971 -
Arnold VOSLOO
South African actor
1962 -
Glynis Johns
British actress, dancer, musician and singer
1923 -
Lara LOGAN
South African television and radio journalist and war correspondent
1971 -
Ela GANDHI
South African peace activist
1940 -
Charles Robberts SWART
First State President of the Republic of South Africa
1894 - 1982 -
TOTIUS
Afrikaner poet
1877 - 1953 -
Eugène Ney Terre'Blanche
Afrikaner nationalist who founded and led the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging
1941 - 2010 -
Adam KOK III
Leader of the Griqua people in South Africa
1811 - 1875 -
Daniel François MALHERBE
Afrikaans-language novelist, poet, dramatist, and scholar
1881 - 1969 -
Raymond HOFFENBERG
British endocrinologist
1923 - 2007 -
Claude CHEVALLEY
French mathematician
1909 - 1984 -
Paul ROOS
One of the first South African Springbok rugby union captains, led the first South African rugby team to tour overseas
1880 - 1948