- Njabulo Ndebele
Professor Njabulo S Ndebele is Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Cape Town. Njabulo Ndebele began his term of office at UCT in July 2000, following tenure as a scholar in residence at the Ford Foundation’s headquarters in New York. He joined the Foundation in September 1998, immediately after a five-year term of office as Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Limpopo in Sovenga, in the then Northern Province.
- Tim Noakes
Professor Timothy Noakes is a world-renowned professor of exercise and sports science at the University of Cape Town. He has run more than 70 marathons and ultramarathons, and is the author of the running book "Lore of Running" (ISBN 0-87322-959-2).He was born in 1949 and attended Monterey Preparatory School in Constantia, Cape Town, then Diocesan College. As a young boy his main sporting interest was cricket.
- George Ellis
George Ellis, FRS, (born August 11, 1939) is the Distinguished Professor of Complex Systems in the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. He co-authored "The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time" with University of Cambridge physicist Stephen Hawking, published in 1973, and is considered one of the world's leading theorists in cosmology. He is an active Quaker and in 2004 he won the Templeton Prize.
- Mark Shuttleworth
Mark Richard Shuttleworth (born 18 September 1973) is a South African entrepreneur who was the second self-funded space tourist and first African national in space. He is now best known for his leadership of the Ubuntu Linux distribution. He currently lives in London and holds dual citizenship of South Africa and the United Kingdom
- Breyten Breytenbach
Breyten Breytenbach (born September 16, 1939) is a South African writer and painter with French citizenship. Breyten Breytenbach was born in Bonnievale in the Western Cape, approximately 180 km from Cape Town and 100 km from the southernmost tip of Africa at Cape Agulhas. He studied fine arts at the University of Cape Town and became a committed opponent of the policy of apartheid. He left South Africa for Paris in the early 1960s.
- Amina Mama
Amina Mama (born 19 September 1958) is a Nigerian feminist writer and academic. She received her doctorate in organizational psychology from the University of London. From 1999 to 2002 she served as director of the African Gender Institute at the University of Cape Town. One of her best known works is "Beyond the Masks: Race, Gender and Subjectivity (Routledge 1995)"
- Marlene Dumas
Marlene Dumas (born August 3, 1953 in Cape Town, South Africa) is an artist combining elements of Expressionism with conceptual art into ink and watercolour pieces and oil paints on canvas. Dumas studied at the University of Cape Town from 1972 to 1975. The aim of her work is to show the relationships between art, female models and even pornography. Many of the starting points for her work are polaroid photographs of her friends and lovers, …
- Zwelethu Mthethwa
Zwelethu Mthethwa (b. 1960) is a South African painter and photographer. Mthethwa, a native of Durban, received his diplomas at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town. He received a Fulbright Scholarship that allowed him to study at the Rochester Institute of Technology, where he received his master's degree in imaging arts in 1989.
- Brett Kebble
Roger Brett Kebble (February 19, 1964 - September 27, 2005) was a South African mining magnate with close links to factions in the ruling political party, the African National Congress. He was shot to death in 2005 by unknown assailants. Brett was born in the mining town of Springs, on the East Rand. He matriculated from St. Andrew's School, Bloemfontein, in 1981, and then went on to the University of Cape Town, from where he graduated in 1986.
- Stephen Watson
Stephen Watson (1955-) is a South African poet. Most of his poetry is about the city of Cape Town, where he has lived most of his life. He currently teaches English and creative writing at the University of Cape Town. In February 2006, the normally reclusive Watson made the mainstream news when, writing in New Contrast, he launched an attack on Antjie Krog, accusing her of plagiarism.
- Ebrahim Moosa
Ebrahim E.I. Moosa is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies in the Department of Religion and Director of the Center for Study of Muslim Networks at Duke University. Moosa earned his `alimiyya degree in Islamic and Arabic studies from Darul Uloom Nadwatul `Ulama, one of India's foremost Islamic seminaries in the city of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. He also has a BA degree from Kanpur University, and a postgraduate diploma in journalism from the City University in London.
- Chelsy Davy
Chelsy Yvonne Davy (born 17 October 1985) is the current girlfriend of Prince Harry. The two were first photographed together holidaying on Bazaruto Island, Mozambique on December 2004. Reports at the time indicated that, when the photographs were released, the couple had already been together for eight months.
- Lewis Gordon Pugh
Lewis Gordon Pugh is a British swimmer, explorer, environmentalist,motivational speaker,and Lawyer. He is known as the "Isbjørn" (the Ice Bear or Polar Bear) for his unique ability to withstand extreme cold. Pugh was the first person to complete a long distance swim in both the Arctic and the Antarctic and the first person to complete a long distance swim in all 5 oceans of the world (Atlantic, Indian, Pacific, Arctic and Southern).
- Raymond Ackerman
Raymond Ackerman (born March 10 1931) is a Jewish South African businessman, best known for founding the Pick 'n Pay supermarket group, of which he is still (as of 2005) the chairperson. He is also well known for his philanthropic activities. After graduating from the University of Cape Town with a Bachelor of Commerce, he joined clothing group Ackermans in 1951 at the age of 20 as a trainee manager. Ackermans had been founded just after World War I by his father, Gus.
- Aaron Klug
Aaron Klug was born in 1926 in Lithuania, but in 1928 his family emigrated to Durban, South Africa, and he was educated at Durban High School. Reading Microbe Hunters by Paul de Kruif influenced him to begin medicine at university as a way into microbiology. At the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg he took the pre-medical course, and in the second year, among other subjects, biochemistry.
- Dan J. Stein
Dan Joseph Stein, MD, PhD is Professor and Chair of the Dept of Psychiatry and Mental Health at the University of Cape Town, and Director of the MRC Unit on Anxiety and Stress Disorders at the University of Stellenbosch. He is also on Faculty at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, in New York. He is co-editor of the "Textbook of Anxiety Disorders" (American Psychiatric Press), and author of "Cognitive-Affective Neuroscience of Mood and Anxiety Disorders" (Dunitz).
- Judith Sephuma
Judith Sephuma is a South African jazz and Afro-pop singer. She grew up in Polokwane and moved to Cape Town in 1994 to study as a jazz vocalist. In 1997 she graduated from the University of Cape Town with a Performer's Diploma in Jazz and went on to further study. In 1999 she won the "Best Jazz Vocalist" at the Old Mutual Jazz Into The Future competition and signed with the African division of BMG.
- Shula Marks
Shula Eta Marks, OBE, FBA (born 14 October 1938, Cape Town) is emeritus professor of history at the School of Oriental and African Studies. She was born Shula Eta Winokur in Cape Town and educated at the University of Cape Town (BA) and the University of London (PhD). She is married to Professor Isaac Marks.
- Chris Brink
Chris Brink is the former Rector and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Stellenbosch in Stellenbosch, South Africa, a post he took up in January 2002. As Vice-Chancellor, he was the academic and managerial head of the University. He was the Chair of Senate, a member of the Council of the University, and had personal charge of the portfolios of strategic planning and transformation. In 2006, the Newcastle University announced that Brink will succeed then vice-chancellor, …
- Stephen Gray
Stephen Gray is a South African writer and critic born in Cape Town in 1941. He studied at the University of Cape Town, Cambridge University, England, and the University of Iowa, USA. Until 1992 he was Professor of English at the Rand Afrikaans University in Johannesburg. Gray is a prolific poet and has published eight novels. Recurrent themes include attitudes to homosexuality and the many rewritings of history in South Africa.
- Hendrik Hofmeyr
Hendrik Hofmeyr is among the younger generation of South African composers. He was born in Cape Town in 1957. While furthering his studies in Italy during 10 years of self-imposed exile as a conscientious objector, he won the South African Opera Competition with "The Fall of the House of Usher". He also received the annual Nederburg Prize for Opera for this work subsequent to its performance at the State Theatre in Pretoria in 1988.
- David Cooper
South African psychiatrist Dr. David G. Cooper was a noted theorist and leader in the anti-psychiatry movement, along with R. D. Laing, Thomas Szasz and Michel Foucault. Cooper graduated from the University of Cape Town in 1955. He moved to London, where he worked at several hospitals and directed an experimental unit for young schizophrenics called "Villa 21". In 1965, he was involved with Laing and others in establishing the Philadelphia Association.
- Roelof Botha
Roelof Botha is a venture capitalist. He began his career as an actuary. He was the CFO of PayPal. Now he works for Sequoia Capital and sat on the board of directors of YouTube before its acquisition by Google. Botha sits on the board of Insider Pages, Meebo, and Xoom. Botha graduated from Stanford Business School in 2000. He also attended the University of Cape Town where he did a BSc in Actuarial Science, Economics, and Statistics.
- Peter Brown
Peter McKenzie Brown was a founding member of the South African Liberal Party and succeeded Alan Paton as its national chairman in 1958. Brown was arrested in March 1960, 10 days after the Sharpeville massacre and was released without charge after 98 days in prison. Brown was born on 24 December 1924 into a well-known Durban family with a shipping fortune. He attended Michaelhouse and was head boy. He fought in North Africa and Italy during World War II.
- Ben Turok
Ben Turok is a former apartheid activist and current South African member of parliament. He was born in Latvia in 1927 and came with his family to South Africa in 1934. He graduated from the University of Cape Town in 1950. Returning to South Africa in 1953, he joined the South African Congress of Democrats and in 1955 became its secretary for the Cape western region, acting as a full-time organiser for the Congress of the People.
- Marcus Wyatt
Marcus Wyatt (born 1971, Port Elizabeth, South Africa), is a South African trumpeter, composer and producer. Marcus was introduced to music, mostly folk and blues, at a young age as his father was chairman of the local folk club. He was introduced to the trumpet at age eleven and started playing in his school band where he learnt to read and play. He studied classical music and played with orchestras in the Port Elizabeth area.
- Walter Veith
Professor Walter J. Veith has traveled widely throughout North America and the world presenting his visually documented "Amazing Discoveries Seminar," to large enthusiastic crowds. The information presented is based on his in-depth research in the areas of evolution/creation, health and diet, and Bible prophecy. Professor Walter Veith obtained his doctorate in zoology from the University of Cape Town in 1979.
- Brett Murray
Brett Murray (born 1961 in Pretoria, South Africa) is a South African artist mostly known for his steel and mixed media wall sculptures. Murray has a master's degree in fine art from the Michaelis School of Fine Art. Referred to by critic Brenda Atkinson as "the dark prince of South African pop (art)", Brett Murray is one of the country's most popular artists, …
- James A. Joseph
James A. Joseph was an American diplomat. Joseph is Professor of the Practice of Public Policy Studies at Duke University and founder of the United States – Southern Africa Center for Leadership and Public Values at Duke and the University of Cape Town. He has served four U.S. Presidents. In 1995, he was nominated by President Bill Clinton and confirmed by the United States Senate as the U.S. Ambassador to South Africa.
- Dizu Plaatjies
Dizu Plaatjies is the founder and former leader of the South African group, Amampondo. He is a graduate of the University of Cape Town School of Music and now lectures there in African Music. Since leaving Amampondo he has started a new ensemble called Ibuyambo. Dizu and the new group have presented shows in a number of European countries, and perform regularly in South Africa.
- Peter Beighton
Peter Beighton, a medical geneticist, was born in England in 1934 and qualified in medicine in 1957 at the University of London's St Mary's Hospital. After several internships, Beighton served as a Medical Officer in the Parachute Regiment and with the United Nations forces during the Congo crisis. In 1962 Beighton began training in internal medicine at St Thomas' Hospital in London. Beighton had a research fellowship in clinical genetics in 1968-69 with Dr.
- Max Theiler
Max Theiler (January 30, 1899 - August 11, 1972) was a South African virologist, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1951 for developing a vaccine for yellow fever. Theiler was born in Pretoria, South Africa, his father Arnold Theiler was a veterinary bacteriologist. He attended Pretoria Boys High School, Rhodes University College, and then University of Cape Town Medical School graduating in 1918.
- Ian Shapiro
Ian Shapiro, Ph.D., Yale University, 1983, J.D., Yale Law School, 1987, is Sterling professor of political science and Henry R. Luce director of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, now called the MacMillan Center. His research interests center on sociological aspects of economics and political theory. In particular, he has written extensively on theories of justice, democracy, and resource distribution, …
- Jean van der Poel
Jean van der Poel (1904 - 1986) was a South African historian.
- Gavin Jantjes
Gavin Jantjes is a South African painter. A native of Cape Town, Jantjes studied at the University of Cape Town's Michaelis School of Fine Art and the Hochschule für bildende Künste, in Hamburg, where he received a master's degree in 1972. A founding member of the German anti-apartheid movement, he served for a time as consultant to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
- Andries Treurnicht
Andries Petrus Treurnicht (1921-1993) was the founder and the leader of the Conservative Party in South Africa. He was born in Piketberg (Cape Province) and began his working life as a journalist, being editor of "Die Kerkbode" and "Hoofstad". He was a keen sportsman, excelling on the rugby field, playing provincial rugby against the All Blacks in 1949. After obtaining his MA in Theology at the University of Stellenbosch, …
- K. Sello Duiker
Kabelo "Sello" Duiker, was a South African novelist. His debut novel, "Thirteen Cents", won the 2001 Commonwealth Writers Prize for best first book written by an African writer. He also worked in advertising and as a screenwriter, at the time of his death he was working as an editor of drama for SABC1. Duiker was born in Orlando, Soweto at the height of apartheid. Coming from a moderately wealthy family he was sent to a public school, …
- Alan Aderem
Alan Aderem is a biologist, specializing in immunology and cell biology. Dr. Aderem's particular focus is the innate immune system, the part of the immune system that responds generically to pathogens. Dr. Aderem is director of The Institute for Systems Biology (ISB). Aderem co-founded the ISB with Leroy Hood and Ruedi Aebersold in 2000. Aderem is from South Africa. He received a PhD from the University of Cape Town in 1979.
- Richard Luyt
Sir Richard Edmonds Luyt, DCM (1915 – 1994) was the colonial Governor of British Guiana in 1964-66. He installed Forbes Burnham of the People's National Congress (PNC) as premier of a coalition government with a small business-oriented conservative party in 1964; however, the People's Progressive Party (PPP) came first in the election. Deadly riots ensued when the PPP was not allowed to form the government.
- Graham Fitch
Graham Fitch - professor at the University of Cape Town, South Africa - is a performer, teacher, lecturer and commentator on piano playing. His workshops and classes have received high praise by critics the world over.