List of alumni of the University of Cape Town

This list of the notable alumni of the University of Cape Town is divided into the seven faculties of the university: Commerce, Humanities, Sciences, Health Sciences, Engineering, Law and Education.

Commerce

*Roelof Botha, the grandson of Pik Botha who began his career as an actuary and became a venture capitalist.
*Nick Mallett, played for and later coached the Springboks, South Africa's national rugby union team.
*Steve Meyer (did not graduate), is a South African professional rugby union player
*Mark Shuttleworth, billionaire entrepreneur, founder of Canonical Ltd, sponsor of the Ubuntu Linux distribution and the second space tourist.

Humanities

*Roger Ebert, film critic, graduated with an English degree as part of a Rotary International program.
*Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr, later Deputy President of South Africa, obtained an M.A. at the age of 17.
*Professor Emeritus J. M. Coetzee (Literature, 2003)
*Adrian Guelke, Professor of Comparative Politics at Queen's University Belfast
*Edward Neville Isdell, current CEO of the Coca-Cola Company
*David Lewis-Williams, is Professor emeritus of Cognitive Archaeology at the University of the Witwatersrand specialising in Upper-Palaeolithic and Bushmen rock art.
*Gwen Lister, South African born Namibian journalist, anti-apartheid activist and founder of The Namibian
*Nicolaas Petrus van Wyk Louw, was an Afrikaans-language poet, playwright and scholar.
*Mamphela Ramphele, a Managing Director of the World Bank and formerly the Vice-Chancellor of UCT.
*Isaac Schapera, was Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics and regarded as one of the world's leading experts in the anthropology of South African tribesmen.
*Robert Carl-Heinz Shell, is a renowned South African author and professor of African Studies.
*Andries Treurnicht, was the founder and the leader of the Conservative Party in South Africa.

Music

*Cromwell Everson, the classical music composer and composer of the first Afrikaans opera.
*Hendrik Hofmeyr, composer and music theorist, winner of the 1997 Queen Elisabeth of Belgium Composition Prize
*Galt MacDermot, composer of the musical Hair

Dance

Fine Art

*Breyten Breytenbach, author
*Jonathan Shapiro, a South African political cartoonist known by the nom de plume Zapiro.

Drama

*Vincent Ebrahim, known for his role on The Kumars at No. 42
*Richard E. Grant, actor
*Zolani Mahola, lead singer of the South African band Freshlyground

ciences

*George Ellis, cosmologist. Collaborator with Stephen Hawking and winner of the 2004 Templeton Prize
*Richard van der Riet Woolley, was a British astronomer who became Astronomer Royal.
*Professor Allan McLeod Cormack (Medicine, 1979)
*Sir Aaron Klug (Chemistry, 1982)
*Hilary Deacon, is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Stellenbosch specialising in the ‘emergence of modern humans’ and African archaeology.
*Emanuel Derman, noted Goldman Sachs financial engineer and author of "My Life As A Quant"
*Jonathan M. Dorfan, director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.
*Sydney Harold Skaife, was an eminent South African entomologist and naturalist.

Health Sciences

*Max Theiler, virologist awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1951 for developing a vaccine against yellow fever.
*Neil Aggett, was a South African trade union leader and labour activist who died in custody after 70 days detention without trial.
*Professor Christiaan Barnard, who performed the first heart transplant at Groote Schuur Hospital.
*David Cooper, was a noted theorist and leader in the anti-psychiatry movement.

Engineering

Law

*Sheila Camerer, a South African politician and senior Member of Parliament of the main opposition the Democratic Alliance. She completed a Bachelor of Law degree at UCT in 1964.
*Dullah Omar, a South African anti-Apartheid activist, lawyer, Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and a minister in the South African cabinet from 1994 until his death.
*Juctice Albie Sachs, of the Constitutional Court of South Africa
*Donald Woods, a South African journalist and anti-apartheid activist
*Percy Yutar, lawyer and prosecutor at [Rivonia Trial]

Education