Liste de Célèbres Personnes nées à Afrique du Sud
Elon Musk
Elon Musk, né le à Pretoria, est un ingénieur, entrepreneur, chef d'entreprise et milliardaire sud-africain, naturalisé canadien en 1988 puis américain en 2002. Il est le président-directeur général (PDG) de la société SpaceX et directeur général de la société Tesla, après avoir été président du conseil d'administration de SolarCity et de Tesla. Il est aussi le fondateur de The Boring Company, une société de construction de tunnels, et de Neuralink, une société de neurotechnologie. Il fait de Tesla, au cours des années 2000, un constructeur grand public d'automobiles électriques.
Charlize Theron
Charlize Theron, née le à Benoni, est une actrice, productrice et mannequin sud-africaine et américaine.
Cameron Norrie
Cameron Norrie, né le à Johannesbourg, est un joueur de tennis néo-zélandais devenu britannique par naturalisation.
Lara Logan
Lara Logan, née le à Durban, est une journaliste et correspondante de guerre sud-africaine.
Antony Sher
Sir Antony Sher, KBE is a British actor of South African origin, a two-time Laurence Olivier Award winner and four-time nominee, who joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1982 and toured in many roles, as well as appearing on film and TV, and working as a writer and theatre director. In 2001, he starred in his cousin Ronald Harwood's play Mahler's Conversion, and said that the story of a composer sacrificing his faith for his career echoed his own identity struggles.
David Wiese
David Wiese is a South African/Namibian cricketer who plays in franchise leagues. Wiese became eligible to play international cricket for Namibia due to his father having been born in Namibia. Wiese played international cricket for South Africa from 2013 to 2016, before making his international debut for Namibia in 2021.
AB de Villiers
Abraham Benjamin de Villiers commonly known as AB de Villiers is a South African cricketer. He was named as the ICC ODI Player of the Year three times during his 15-year international career and was one of the five Wisden cricketers of the decade at the end of 2019.
Oscar Pistorius
Oscar Pistorius, né le à Johannesburg, est un athlète sud-africain né sans péronés et amputé sous les genoux à l'âge de 11 mois, spécialisé dans le sprint. Par ailleurs, il est le meurtrier du mannequin Reeva Steenkamp.
Kimbal Musk
Kimbal Musk is a South African-born restaurateur, chef, and entrepreneur. He owns The Kitchen Restaurant Group, a family of community restaurant concepts located in Colorado, Chicago, Cleveland, Memphis, and Indianapolis. He is the co-founder and Chairman of Big Green, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that has built hundreds of outdoor classrooms called "Learning Gardens" in schoolyards across America. Musk is also the Co-Founder and Chairman of Square Roots, an urban farming company in Brooklyn, N.Y., growing food in hydroponic, indoor, climate controlled shipping containers. Musk currently sits on the boards of Tesla Inc. and SpaceX. He was on the board of Chipotle Mexican Grill from 2013–2019. He is the younger brother of billionaire businessman Elon Musk and a major Tesla shareholder.
Quinton de Kock
Quinton de Kock is a South African international cricketer and current captain of the Proteas in all three formats. Playing for the Titans at the domestic level, Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League and South Africa at international level. He was named the Cricketer of the Year at Cricket South Africa's 2017 Annual Awards.
Caster Semenya
Caster Semenya est une athlète sud-africaine, spécialiste notamment du 800 mètres. Elle est double championne olympique et triple championne du monde sur cette distance mais son hyperandrogénie suscite la polémique : en 2019, les instances sportives internationales ont estimé qu’elle est « biologiquement un homme », bien qu'elle soit en fait une personne intersexe.
Trevor Noah
Trevor Noah, né le à Johannesbourg, est un acteur, humoriste et animateur de télévision sud-africain actif aux États-Unis.
Otlile Mabuse
Otlile Mabuse, alias Oti Mabuse, née le à Prétoria, est une danseuse et chorégraphe sud-africaine. Elle est la sœur cadette de la danseuse Motsi Mabuse.
Prue Leith
Prudence Margaret Leith, is a British-South African restaurateur, chef, caterer, television presenter/broadcaster, businesswoman, journalist, cookery writer and novelist. She is Chancellor of Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh. She was a judge on BBC Two's Great British Menu for eleven years, before joining The Great British Bake Off in March 2017, replacing Mary Berry, when the television programme moved to Channel 4.
Motsi Mabuse
Motsi Mabuse, de son vrai nom Motshegetsi Mabuse, née le à Mankwe en Afrique du Sud, est une danseuse, chorégraphe, femme d'affaires, écrivaine et animatrice sud-africano-allemande.
Tabraiz Shamsi
Tabraiz Shamsi is a South African cricketer. He has played first-class cricket for teams such as Dolphins, Gauteng, Gauteng Under-19s, KwaZulu Natal, KwaZulu-Natal Inland, Lions, and Titans. His batting style is right-handed and he is known for his left-arm unorthodox spin bowling.
Howard Carpendale
Howard Victor Carpendale est un chanteur sud-africain qui commença sa carrière dans les pays germanophones à la fin des années 1960 et qu'il poursuit encore actuellement.
Damon Galgut
Damon Galgut est un dramaturge et romancier sud-africain, né le à Pretoria. Il est un écrivain majeur de l'Afrique du Sud post-apartheid. Il vit au Cap.
Marnus Labuschagne
Marnus Labuschagne is a South African-born Australian international cricketer who plays for the Australian national team and domestic cricket for the Queensland cricket team. He also currently plays county cricket for Glamorgan and in the Big Bash League for the Brisbane Heat.
Johannes Radebe
Johannes Radebe is a South African dancer and choreographer.