Famous people born in South Africa
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Elon Musk
Elon Reeve Musk is a South Africanborn CanadianAmerican business magnate, engineer, and investor.....
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Dena Kaplan
Dena Kaplan is a South Africanborn Australian actress, singer and dancer. She is known for her role as Abigail Armstrong in Dance Academy.....
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Jacques Kallis
Jacques Kallis is a former South African cricketer and the current coach of Kolkata Knight Riders. He is a righthanded batsman and rightarm fastmedium swing bowler, Kallis is regarded as one of the greatest players of the game and allrounders. As of 2013 he was the only cricketer in the history of the game to score more than 10,000 runs and take 250 wickets in both oneday and Test match cricket.....
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Kandyse McClure
Kandyse McClure is a South Africanborn Canadian actress. She has played Anastasia Dualla on the Sci Fi Channels television program Battlestar Galactica, and Dr. Clementine Chasseur on the Netflix original series Hemlock Grove.....
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Makhaya Ntini
Makhaya Ntini OIS is a former South African cricketer who was the first ethnically black player to play for the South African team. A fast bowler, he tends to bowl from wide of the crease with brisk, although not express, pace. He was convicted of rape early on in his career, but was acquitted on appeal and went on to become only the third South African to take 300 Test wickets after Shaun Pollock and Allan Donald, and to reach second place in the ICC test match bowling ratings. He played contr....
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Mandisi Arnold Shindo
Mandisi Arnold Shindo is a South African actor, writer, director, voice and dance performer, and the founder of the Iselwa Lesizwe Theatre Company. He began pursuing his passion for theatre at age 11 in primary school, and since then has dedicated his life to the arts and to helping young people gain the skills for a tertiary level education. He views the teaching of drama as calling and weapon to teach those who are not getting the formal classroom teaching.....
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Oscar Pistorius
2004 Summer Paralympics 100160m 160 Bronze 200160m 160 Gold 2008 Summer Paralympics 100160m 160 Gold, 200160m 160 Gold 400160m 160 Gold....
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Le n Coetzer
Len Coetzer is a South African dancer and choreographer. Her dance career officially began as founder member of the PACT Dance Company in 1988. Since then, Coetzer has performed and choreographed around South Africa, including the creation of several performance art pieces in various exhibitions and festivals. She works as a Voice Movement Therapy Practitioner.....
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Guy Spier
Guy Spier is a Zurichbased investor and author of a book on investing entitled The Education of a Value Investor. He is well known for bidding US650,100 with Mohnish Pabrai for a charity lunch with Warren Buffett in June 2007. In 2009, he was featured in the Checklist Manifesto, by Atul Gawande regarding his use of checklists as part of his investment process.....
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Lesley Ann Brandt
LesleyAnn Brandt is a South Africanborn actress who is based in Auckland, New Zealand, and Los Angeles, United States. Brandt has acted in a number of New Zealand television series and first came to international notice with her role as a slave girl Naevia in the series Spartacus Blood and Sand. She currently plays the role of Maze on the FOX television series Lucifer.....
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Mark Boucher
Mark Verdon Boucher is a former South African cricketer, who holds the record for the most Test dismissals by a wicketkeeper. He has represented Border, South Africa, Africa XI, ICC World XI and Royal Challengers Bangalore and Kolkata Knight Riders in the Indian Premier League. He had been a regular feature of the South African side since the 19971998 tour to Australia, until his retirement from international cricket in July 2012 after a serious eye injury against Somerset.....
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Mark Shuttleworth
Mark Richard Shuttleworth is a South African entrepreneur and space tourist who became the first citizen of an independent African country to travel to space. Shuttleworth funded and founded Canonical Ltd. in 2004 and as of 2013, provides leadership for the Ubuntu operating system. He currently lives on the Isle of Man and holds dual citizenship of South Africa and the United Kingdom.....
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