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- Nelson Mandela, former President, Nobel Peace Prize Winner 1993
- Desmond Tutu, General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches, Nobel Peace Prize Winner 1984
- Walter Sisulu
- Steve Biko, anti-apartheid activist
- Hector Pieterson, came to represent the anger and tragedy of a day that changed the course of South African history, sparking months of clashes between police, schoolchildren and protesters
- Nadine Gordimer, recipient of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature
- Navanethem Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
- Judge Richard Goldstone, former Chief Prosecutor of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda
- Dr. Liam Pedersen, robotics researcher at NASA Ames Research Center
- Elon Musk, CEO and product architect of Tesla Motors and the CEO/CTO of Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX)
- Dr. Mankekolo Mahlangu-Ngcobo,
- Miriam Makeba, singer known as Mama Africa and the Empress of African song
- Lucky Dube, alongside Bob Marley, was one of the great reggae artists, singing about social problems
- Hugh Masekela, South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, composer, and singer
- Charlize Theron, Actress
- Arnold Vosloo, Actor
- Stelio Savante, Actor
- Siyabulela Xuza, Scientist
- David Tlale, Fashion Designer
- Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Grammy Award Winning Choir
- Soweto Gospel Choir
- Lebo M - South African singer and songwriter
- Tsidii Le Loka
- Mpho Gift Ngoepe, Major League Baseball infielder
- Oscar Pistorius, the first amputee athlete to compete in the Olympics
- Bruce Fordyce, Marathoner- Originally published in UltraRunning Magazine, May/June 2012, and reproduced with permission.
- Alf Kumalo, one of South Africa’s leading documentary photographers
- João Silva, one of documentary photographers who covered the violent birth pangs of the democratic South Africa
- Greg Marinovich, Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer doing conflict, documentary and news photography around the globe.
- Agnes Matlebjane - Author, Footsteps- My Life As An Au Pair, (also available at XLibris), Exchange Student at Kean University.
- Born in the RSA - and big in the USA