- male, deceased (1500)
- Bartolomeu Dias (c. 1450 - May 29, 1500) was a Portuguese explorer who sailed around the the southern tip of Africa in 1488, the first European...
- male, deceased (1712)
- Simon van der Stel October 14, 1639 – June 24, 1712, was the first Governor of the Cape of Good Hope. He was the son of Adriaan van der Stel, an of...
- male
- Mark Bamford (writer/director) was born in Louisville, Kentucky, but raised mostly in New York. He graduated from New York University (NYU) in 1989...
- male
- Alexander Hamilton was an 18th century Scottish sea captain, privateer and merchant. Very little is known about his life - even the dates of his...
- male, deceased (1914)
- Sir David Gill (June 12 1843 - January 24 1914) was a Scottish astronomer born in Aberdeen who spent much of his career in South Africa. He used...
- male, deceased (1618)
- Sir James Lancaster (1554(?)-May 1618) was an English navigator, statesman, and pioneer of the British Indian trade and empire. In his early life,...
- male, deceased (1879)
- Sir Thomas Maclear (March 17, 1794-July 14, 1879) was an Irish-born South African astronomer who became Astronomer Royal at the Cape of Good Hope....
- male, deceased (1786)
- Charles Mason (1728-1786) was an English astronomer. Mason's early career was spent at the Royal Greenwich Observatory near London. He worked on...
- male, deceased (1592)
- Sir Thomas Cavendish (or "Candish") (1560 -1592) was known as "the Navigator" because he led the third expedition to circumnavigate the globe, and...
- female, deceased (1825)
- Lady Anne Barnard (12 December, 1750-6 May, 1825), nee Anne Lindsay, eldest daughter of James Lindsay, 5th Earl of Balcarres was born at Balcarres...
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