People of Kimberley

List of famous people from Kimberley, Northern Cape

A

• Benny Alexander, who adopted the name Khoisan X, General Secretary of the Pan Africanist Congress
• Diane Awerbuck, South African novelist.

B

• Frances Baard, trade-unionist who grew up in Kimberley - and after whom the District Municipality is named.
• Xenophon Constantine Balaskas, Springbok cricketer, 1930-1939.
• Barney Barnato
• Alfred Beit
• Benjamin Bennett, author.
• Dr Rudolph Bigalke, director of the National Zoological Gardens of South Africa, 1927 to 1962.
• Rudolph Carl Bigalke, zoologist and one-time director of the McGregor Museum.
• Charl Bouwer, paralympic swimmer and 2012 gold medallist, born in Kimberley

C

• Clive Mopeleti, Filmmaker and Philanthropist.

D

• Clive Derby-Lewis, politician, imprisoned for his role in the assassination of Chris Hani. Born in Cape Town but grew up in Kimberley.
• Manne Dipico
• Frank Dobbin, rugby player

G

• Kgosi Galeshewe, BaTlhaping leader and anti-colonial resistance leader.
• Henry Richard Giddy, member of the Red Cap Party that led the rush on Colesberg Kopje or 'New Rush', later Kimberley

H

• Dorian Haarhoff
• Reeza Hendricks, Professional cricketer for the Highveld Lions and The Proteas.
• Richard Henyekane, South African football striker.
• William Benbow Humphreys, politician, founder of and principal benefactor behind Kimberley's William Humphreys Art Gallery, and recipient of the Freedom of the City of Kimberley.

J

• Dan Jacobson, author.
• Leander Starr Jameson

K

• Bronwyn Katz, sculptor and visual artist, and a founding member of iQhiya Collective
• Victor Khojane, otherwise known as Dr Victor, reggae and R&B musician
• Aggrey Klaaste, Editor of The Sowetan, grew up in Kimberley.
• Bernard Klisser, after whom the Kimberley suburb Klisserville is named.
• Jbe' Kruger, golfer.

L

• George Labram, De Beers Engineer who designed and built Long Cecil.
• Richard Liversidge, ornithologist and museum director.

M

• Gail Nkoane Mabalane, actress, model and singer
• Phakamile Mabija, anti-apartheid activist.
• Thebe Magugu, fashion designer.
• Adolph Malan, better known as Sailor Malan, famed World War II RAF fighter pilot and later leading member of the anti-Apartheid Torch Commando and Springbok Legion in South Africa.
• Brian Marajh, Bishop of George.
• Manie Maritz, Boer general.
• Z.K. Matthews, President of the African National Congress, spent his youth in Kimberley.
• Sarah Gertrude Millin, author, spent her formative years, 1888–1912, in Kimberley and the nearby Waldeck's Plant.
• Harold Arthur Morris, Freeman of Kimberley.
• Karen Muir, Olympic medalist.

N

• Gideon "Mgibe" Nxumalo - Jazz pianist, arranger, composer.

O

• Ernest Oppenheimer
• Harry Oppenheimer

P

• Sol Plaatje
• Dipuo Peters, second Premier of the Northern Cape Province.
• Frank Templeton Prince, poet.

R

• Cecil Rhodes
• J.B. Robinson
• Dr Donald Ross, cardiac surgeon
• Bevil Rudd, Olympic medalist.
• Charles Rudd

S

• A.H.M. Scholtz, author.
• Olive Schreiner, author, who lived in Kimberley 1894-1897.
• Gert Smal, former rugby union player and coach.
• Robert Sobukwe, founder of the Pan Africanist Congress.
• Richard Southey (colonial administrator)
• Henrietta Stockdale

T

• Jimmy Tau, football player and Kaizer Chiefs captain
• William M. Timlin, artist and architect, responsible for many notable Kimberley buildings.

W

• Charles Warren
• Maria Wilman