Born on South Africa

17 famous people found

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  Charlize Theron

  American actress and producer

  1975
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  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
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  Arnold VOSLOO

  South African actor

  1962
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  Glynis Johns

  British actress, dancer, musician and singer

  1923 - 2024
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  Lara LOGAN

  South African television and radio journalist and war correspondent

  1971
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  Ela GANDHI

  South African peace activist

  1940
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  Charles Robberts SWART

  First State President of the Republic of South Africa

  1894 - 1982
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  TOTIUS

  Afrikaner poet

  1877 - 1953
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  Jan Smuts

  South African statesman, military leader and philosopher

  1870 - 1950
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  David O. Sacks

  American entrepreneur and author

  1972
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  Francis William REITZ

  South African lawyer, politician, statesman, publicist, and poet

  1844 - 1934
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  Eugène Ney Terre'Blanche

  Afrikaner nationalist who founded and led the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging

  1941 - 2010
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  Adam KOK III

  Leader of the Griqua people in South Africa

  1811 - 1875
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  Daniel François MALHERBE

  Afrikaans-language novelist, poet, dramatist, and scholar

  1881 - 1969
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  Raymond HOFFENBERG

  British endocrinologist

  1923 - 2007
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  Claude CHEVALLEY

  French mathematician

  1909 - 1984
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  Paul ROOS

  One of the first South African Springbok rugby union captains, led the first South African rugby team to tour overseas

  1880 - 1948