People of Kimberley

This is a list of the famous and notable people from Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa.

List of famous people from Kimberley, Northern Cape

Table of contents: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

• Benny Alexander, General Secretary of the Pan Africanist Congress

B

• Frances Baard, trade-unionist who grew up in Kimberley - and after whom the District Municipality is named.
• Barney Barnato
• Alfred Beit
• Benjamin Bennett, author.
• Collin Bosman 2010 FiFa World Cup Coordinator for Sol Plaatje Municipality -Base Camp for Team URUGUAY.

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

E

F

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
• Richard Henyekane, South African football striker.

I

J

• Dan Jacobson, author.
• Leander Starr Jameson

K

• Aggrey Klaaste, Editor of The Sowetan, grew up in Kimberley.
• Bernard Klisser, after whom the Kimberley suburb Klisserville is named.

L

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

M

• Phakamile Mabija, anti-apartheid activist.
• Adolph Malan
• 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.
• Karen Muir, Olympic medalist (swimming).

N

O

• Ernest Oppenheimer
• Harry Oppenheimer

P

• Sol Plaatje
• Dipuo Peters, second Premier of the Northern Cape Province.

Q

R

• Cecil Rhodes
• Bevil Rudd, Olympic medalist (athletics).
• Charles Rudd

S

• Olive Schreiner, author, who lived in Kimberley 1894-1897.
• Robert Sobukwe, founder of the Pan Africanist Congress.
• Richard Southey (colonial administrator)
• Henrietta Stockdale

T

• William Timlin, artist and architect, responsible for many notable Kimberley buildings.

U

V

W

• Charles Warren
• Maria Wilman

X

Y

Z

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