List of University of the Witwatersrand people
This is a list of notable alumni and staff of the University of the Witwatersrand.
Arts
- Lionel Abrahams, novelist, poet, editor, critic, essayist and publisher.
- Jillian Becker novelist. essayist, critic and expert on terrorism.
- Herman Charles Bosman, writer and journalist.
- Johnny Clegg, musician.
- Clement M. Doke, linguist.
- Clinton Fein, artist, activist
- Shannon Esra, actress.
- Elisabeth Eybers, poet.
- Ernest Fleischmann (1924–2010), impresario best known for his tenure at the Los Angeles Philharmonic.[1]
- Nadine Gordimer, Nobel Prize: Literature; 1991
- Aura Herzog, Israeli writer.
- Gavin Hood, writer, producer and director, best known for directing Tsotsi.
- Claire Johnston, singer best known as the face and voice of Mango Groove.
- William Kentridge, South African Artist.
- Aggrey Klaaste, journalist and editor, best known as the editor of the Sowetan from 1988 to 2002.
- Neil Lazarus, acclaimed literary theorist at the University of Warwick.[2]
- Manfred Mann, Keyboard player for the bands Manfred Mann and Manfred Mann's Earth Band, among others.
- Judith Mason, renowned South African painter
- Phaswane Mpe, poet and novelist.
- Ezekiel Mphahlele, writer and academic.
- Lionel Ngakane, filmmaker.
- Benedict Wallet Vilakazi, Zulu poet, novelist, and educator. The first black South African to receive a Ph. D.
- Neil Lazarus, critic, essayist, Professor of 'postcolonial' literature, theory and culture at University of Warwick
- Ivan Vladislavic, South African novelist
- Ernst Oswald Johannes Westphal, linguist and an expert in Bantu and Khoisan languages.
- Lewis Wolpert, developmental biologist, author, and broadcaster.
- Tessa Ziegler, musician, classical guitarist
- Lucy Allais, Philosopher
- Ferial Haffajee, Editor of the City Press and former editor of The Mail and Guardian in South Africa
- Anton Harber, Founding editor of The Mail and Guardian, media commentator, author and founder of the Wits Journalism Programme.
- Marianne Fasler, South African designer and artist
- Eric Fernie, Art Historian
Architecture and Design
Business and entrepreneurship
- Sir Winfried Franz Wilhen Bischoff, Anglo-German banker, who is currently chairman of Lloyds Banking Group plc. He was formerly chairman of Citigroup and previously served as interim CEO of the same company in 2007. Bischoff was knighted in 2000.
- Thomas Boardman, Non-executive Director of Nedbank. Tom Boardman was previously appointed Chief Executive of the Group and the Bank and was formerly the Chief Executive and an executive director of BoE. Past directorships include Boardmans and Sam Newman Limited as well as BoE International Holdings Limited and Northwind Investments (Pty) Limited. He is a non-executive director of Mutual & Federal Insurance Company Limited and the Banking Association, director of Vodacom Group (Pty) Ltd and the WWF South Africa (World Wide Fund for Nature).
- Errol Glasser, Leading US Investment Banker
- Donald Gordon is perhaps best known for Liberty Life, the life assurance company he started in 1958 with R100,000 when he was only 27 years old. Honorary From this base, Liberty grew and in 1962 listed on the JSE. In 1999 he retired as chairman of Liberty Life, by then the third largest insurer in South Africa, and 'retired' to London. He was awarded a knighthood in 2005 in recognition of his services to the arts and business.
- Brian Joffe, Chief Executive Officer of Bidvest Plc. Brian Joffe founded Bid Corporation in 1988
- Norm Judah, Microsoft Services chief technology officer of Worldwide Services and IT
- Gail Kelly (born Gail Currer) is an Australian and South African business person. In 2002 she became the first woman CEO of a major Australian bank or top 15 company and, as at 2005, was the highest paid woman at an Australian corporation. She took up the position of CEO at Westpac in 2008
- Sol Kerzner, South African hotel and gambling magnate. Kerzner was born in Troyeville, Johannesburg, the youngest of four children to Jewish Russian immigrants. His family started a hotel chain; after Kerzner graduated as a Chartered Accountant, he took over the running of the group and went on to create the most successful hotel group in South Africa, Sun International. He is now Chairman of the Board of Kerzner International based on Paradise Island, Bahamas.
- Ludwig Lachmann, economist and important contributor to the Austrian School.
- Mark Lamberti, Non-Executive Chairman: Massmart Holdings; Deputy Chairman: Massmart Holdings Ltd; Alternate Director: Servistar (Pty) Ltd; Non-Executive Director : Allied Electronics Corporation Ltd.
- David Lobel, founder and Managing Partner, Sentinel Capital Partners, a leading middle-market private equity firm
- Graham Mackay, CEO of SABMiller plc. He joined SABMiller plc, the world’s second largest beer brewer, in 1978 and has held a number of senior positions in the SABMiller Group, including Executive Chairman of the beer business in South Africa. He was appointed Group Managing Director in 1997 and Chief Executive of South African Breweries plc upon its listing on the London Stock Exchange in 1999. He is the Senior Non-Executive Director of Reckitt Benckiser Group plc. Mr. Mackay serves on the Compensation and Leadership Development, Finance and Product Innovation and Regulatory Affairs Committees.
- Martin Morgan, Chief Executive Officer and Director of DMGT.
- Nthato Motlana, giant of South African business and the anti-apartheid struggle. He was one of the accused, with Mandela and 18 others, in the 1952 Defiance Campaign Trial. All the accused were convicted for their role in a campaign of peaceful protests against apartheid laws. Motlana was also the chairperson of the Soweto Committee of Ten which was formed to run Soweto's affairs after the collapse of the Soweto Urban Bantu Council. The Committee of Ten was among the organisations banned by the apartheid government on 19 October 1977 on what became known as "Black Wednesday".
- Patrice Tlhopane Motsepe, South African mining magnate. According to Forbes Magazine Patrice Motsepe is worth more than R17-billion after adding a further R7-billion to his net worth in 2009.
- Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, diamond and gold mining entrepreneur, financier and philanthropist, who controlled De Beers and founded the Anglo American Corporation of South Africa
- Maria Ramos, South African economist and businesswoman. She is the CEO of ABSA Group, position which she has held since 1 March 2009 . ABSA Group it is one of South Africa's largest financial services groups. Previously she was CEO of Transnet. Transnet is overhauling South Africa’s largest transport company, which controls the country’s rail and port operations, divesting noncore assets, including South African Airways, embarking on a major capital-expenditure program, and improving customer service. Ramos was named outstanding businesswoman of the year (2009) in the African Business Awards granted by the Commonwealth Business Council and African Business magazine.
- Patrick Soon-Shiong, South African-American surgeon and founder, chairman, and CEO of Abraxis BioScience, a biotechnology company developing cancer treatment. According to Forbes magazine he is amongst the world’s billionaires.
- Lazarus Zim, founder of Afripalm Resources (Pty) Ltd. in 2006, and currently serving as its Chairman. Mr. Zim served as the Chief Executive Officer of Anglo American Corporation of South Africa Ltd. and Anglo American PLC since February 1, 2005. He served as a Member of Executive Board of Anglo American Plc.
- Ivan Glasenberg, is the CEO of Glencore, one of the world's largest commodity trading companies.He is also on the boards of mining companies Xstrata plc and Minara Resources Ltd.
- Robbie Brozin, CEO and Founder of Nandos
- Ronnie Apteker, founder of Internet Solutions (IS), one of South Africa's largest Internet Service Providers.
Education
- Colin Bundy (Warden, Green College, Oxford; formerly Director and Principal, School of Oriental and African Studies and Deputy Vice Chancellor, University of London; and previously Vice Chancellor and Principal, University of the Witwatersrand).
- Jane den Hollander, Vice-Chancellor and President, Deakin University, Australia.
- Michael Stevenson, President and Vice-Chancellor, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC.
- Arthur Rubinstein, executive vice president for the University of Pennsylvania Health System and dean of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
- Patrick Deane, Vice-Chancellor and President, McMaster University, Canada.
- Max Price, Vice-Chancellor, University of Cape Town, Johannesburg and former dean, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand
- Garth Saloner, Dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Business
- Prof Thandwa Mthembu, Vice-chancellor and Principal of Central University of Technology, Free State (CUT),
- Prof Loyiso Nongxa, Vice-Chancellor and Principal, University of the Witwatersrand
Historians
Legal profession
- Arthur Chaskalson, former President of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and Chief Justice of South Africa.
- George Bizos, human rights advocate.
- Richard Goldstone, judge and international war crimes prosecutor.
- Sydney Kentridge, advocate and Acting Justice of the Constitutional Court
- Mervyn E. King, former judge of the Supreme Court of South Africa and director of the Global Reporting Initiative
- Ismail Mahomed, first post-apartheid Chief Justice.
- Margaret H. Marshall, Chief Justice Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
- Azhar Cachalia, Judge at the South African Supreme Court of Appeal, Anti-Apartheid activist, a founding member of the United Democratic Front served in Government as Secretary for Safety and Security.
- Dikgang Moseneke, Chancellor of the University of the Witwatersrand and Deputy Chief Justice of South Africa.
Politics and public service
- Nelson Mandela, the first President of South Africa to be elected in fully representative democratic elections.
- Michael Bear, Lord Mayor of London 2010/11.
- Dennis Brutus, former political activist and poet.
- Ruth First, anti-apartheid activist and scholar.
- Bernard Friedman senior lecturer in Otolaryngology and founder of the Progressive Party (South Africa).
- Natan Gamedze, Swazi Prince, Supreme Court Translator and Orthodox Rabbi.
- Adrian Guelke, political scientist
- Tshilidzi Marwala, academic, businessman and political theorist
- Jan Hofmeyr, politician.
- Barbara Hogan, Minister of Public Enterprises in the Cabinet of South Africa and former Minister of Health
- Joel Joffe, human rights lawyer who represented Nelson Mandela in the Rivonia Trial.
- Ahmed Kathrada, politician, anti-apartheid activist and political prisoner.
- Teresa Heinz Kerry, philanthropist and the wife of U.S. Senator John Kerry.
- Tony Leon, politician and former leader of the Democratic Alliance.
- Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, ex-wife of Nelson Mandela.
- Eduardo Mondlane, the father of Mozambican independence.
- Connie Mulder, former politician.
- Mamphela Ramphele, academic, businesswoman, medical doctor and anti-apartheid activist.
- Harry Schwarz, lawyer, politician, ambassador to United States and anti-apartheid leader
- Joe Slovo, Communist politician, long time leader of the South African Communist Party (SACP), and leading member of the African National Congress.
- Helen Suzman, anti-apartheid activist and politician.
- Rupert Taylor, political scientist
- Lucien van der Walt, sociologist and co-author, along with Michael Schmidt, of Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism (Counter-Power vol. 1).
- David Webster, social anthropologist and anti-apartheid activist.
- Helen Zille, Leader of the Democratic Alliance (South Africa)
Science and technology
- Lee Berger, paleoanthropologist and winner of the 1st National Geographic Prize for Research and Exploration.
- Sydney Brenner, Nobel Prize: Medical; 2002
- Jan C. A. Boeyens, chemist
- Selig Percy Amoils, ophthalmologist and biomedical engineering inventor.
- Ron Clarke, paleoanthropologist.
- Colin Gerald Caro Discoveries in physiological fluid flow
- Raymond Dart, anatomist and anthropologist, discoverer of the Taung Child.
- H. J. De Blij, Geographer, Professor, Television Personality, Analyst, and Award Winner.
- David A. Forsyth, computer vision researcher.
- Max Gluckman, anthropologist.
- Julien Hoffman, cardiologist, professor.
- Paul Kantor, cardiologist (Sick Children's Hospital- Toronto), Former Chief Cardiologist (Hamilton Children's Hospital).
- David King, scientist.
- James Kitching, Karroo paleontologist.
- Aaron Klug, Nobel Prize: Chemistry; 1982
- Danie G. Krige, Mining Engineer who pioneered the field of geostatistics.
- Robert Kröger specializes in Aquatic Sciences and is a Professor at Mississippi State University[1]
- Jonathan Lewis, Surgical Oncologist, Biomedical Researcher, Developer of Cancer Drugs.
- David Lewis-Williams, is Professor emeritus of Cognitive Archaeology at the University of the Witwatersrand specialising in Upper-Palaeolithic and Bushmen rock art. He is the founder of the Rock Art Research Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand.
- Tingye Li One of the pioneers in LASERS and optical communication.
- Doron Lubinsky, mathematician and author.
- John K. Lundy, visionary bioanthropologist and sagacious medical examiner.
- Frank Nabarro, solid state physicist, DVC.
- Wanda Orlikowski, Information Systems scholar
- Seymour Papert, artificial intelligence pioneer and inventor of the Logo programming language.
- David Pettifor, physicist.
- Audrey Richards, social anthropologist.
- Peter Sarnak, mathematician.
- Friedel Sellschop, physicist [2]
- Herbert Sichel, statistician.
- Himla Soodyall, geneticist.
- Lars Georg Svensson, cardiac surgeon.
- Phillip Tobias, paleoanthropologist and anatomist.
- Sir Jack Zunz, civil engineer.
- Professor Mamokgethi Setati, Mathematics education researcher and academic. President of Convocation 2011 - 2014
- Professor Roy Robins-Browne, Leading Tropical Medicine researcher
Sports
- Bruce Fordyce, marathon and ultramarathon athlete who won the Comrades Marathon a record nine times (eight times consecutively).
- Jan Mallen, marathon and ultramarathon athlete who won the Comrades Marathon
- Hendrik Ramaala, winner of the 2004 New York City Marathon and 2004 Mumbai Marathon. He also has two silver medals from the IAAF World Half Marathon Championships in 1998 and 1999. In 2006 he also won the men's Great North Run. He is a two-time national champion in the 5.000 metres.
- Ali Bacher, a former South African Test cricketer and an administrator of the United Cricket Board of South Africa.
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References
- ^ Luther, Claudia. "Ernest Fleischmann dies at 85; manager who guided Los Angeles Philharmonic's transformation", Los Angeles Times, June 15, 2010. Accessed June 20, 2010.
- ^ http://www.amazon.co.uk/Books/s?ie=UTF8&rh=n%3A266239%2Cp_27%3ANeil%20Lazarus&field-author=Neil%20Lazarus&page=1