- List of University of the Witwatersrand people
This is a list of notable alumni and staff of the University of the Witwatersrand.
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Lionel Abrahams , novelist, poet, editor, critic, essayist and publisher.
*William Kentridge , South African Artist.
*Amancio D'Alpoim (Pancho) Guedes , Portuguese architect, participant ofTeam X
*Selig Percy Amoils , ophthalmologist and biomedical engineering inventor.
*Ian Bader , architect.
*Lee Berger, paleoanthropologist and winner of the 1st National Geographic Prize for Research and Exploration.
*Sir Winfried Franz Wilhen Bischoff, Chairman ofCitigroup , former Group Chief Executive and Chairman of Schroders plc.
*George Bizos , human rights advocate.
*Herman Charles Bosman , writer and journalist.
*Dennis Brutus , former political activist and poet.
*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)
*Rory Byrne , former chief designer for theFerrari Formula One team.
*Arthur Chaskalson , former President of theConstitutional Court of South Africa and Chief Justice of South Africa.
*Ron Clarke Paleoanthropologist.
*Johnny Clegg, musician.
*Raymond Dart , anatomist and anthropologist, discoverer of theTaung Child .
*H. J. De Blij, Geographer, Professor, Television Personality, Analyst, and Award Winner.
*Clement M. Doke , linguist.
*Jonathan Drummond-Webb
*Shannon Esra , actress.
*Elisabeth Eybers , poet.
*Clinton Fein , artist, activist
*Ruth First , anti-apartheid activist and scholar.
*Bruce Fordyce , marathon and ultramarathon athlete who won theComrades Marathon a record nine times (eight times consecutively).
*David A. Forsyth , machine vision researcher.
*Natan Gamedze , Swazi Prince, Supreme Court Translator andOrthodox Rabbi .
*Imran Garda , News Anchor forAl Jazeera English .
*Max Gluckman , anthropologist.
*Richard Goldstone , judge and international war crimes prosecutor.
*Adrian Guelke , political scientist
*Giles Henderson , CBE, Master ofPembroke College, Oxford
*Aura Herzog , Israeli writer.
*Jan Hofmeyr, politician.
*Gavin Hood , writer, producer and director, best known for directing "Tsotsi ".
*Joel Joffe , human rights lawyer who represented Nelson Mandela in theRivonia Trial .
*Norm Judah , Microsoft Services chief technology officer of Worldwide Services and IT
*Claire Johnston, singer best known as the face and voice ofMango Groove .
*Paul Kantor , cardiologist (Sick Children's Hospital- Toronto), Former Chief Cardiologist (Hamilton Children's Hospital).
*Ahmed Kathrada , politician, anti-apartheid activist and political prisoner.
*Sydney Kentridge , advocate and Acting Justice of the Constitutional Court
*Teresa Heinz Kerry , philanthropist and the wife of U.S. SenatorJohn Kerry .
*David King, scientist.
*James Kitching , Karroo paleontologist.
*Aggrey Klaaste , journalist and editor, best known as the editor of the Sowetan from 1988 to 2002.
*Danie G. Krige , Mining Engineer who pioneered the field ofgeostatistics .
*Ludwig Lachmann , economist and important contributor to theAustrian School .
*Tony Leon , politician and former leader of the Democratic Alliance.
*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.
*Doron Lubinsky , mathematician and author.
*Winnie Madikizela-Mandela , ex-wife of Nelson Mandela.
*Ismail Mahomed , first post-apartheid Chief Justice.
*Nevelle Charles Starke , formerveternarian .
*Nelson Mandela , the first President of South Africa to be elected in fully-representative democratic elections.
*Manfred Mann, Keyboard player for the bandsManfred Mann andManfred Mann's Earth Band , among others.
*Judith Mason , renowned South African painter
*Eduardo Mondlane , the father of Mozambican independence.
*Patrice Motsepe , leading South African mining entrepreneur. Mamelodi Sundowns boss
*Phaswane Mpe , poet and novelist.
*Ezekiel Mphahlele , writer and academic.
*Connie Mulder , former politician.
*Frank Nabarro , solid state physicist, DVC.
*Allistair Neil , geographer.
*Lionel Ngakane , filmmaker.
*Wanda Orlikowski , Information Systems scholar
*Seymour Papert ,artificial intelligence pioneer and inventor of theLogo programming language .
*David Pettifor , physicist.
*Cedric Phatudi
*Mamphela Ramphele , academic, businesswoman, medical doctor and anti-apartheid activist.
*Audrey Richards , social anthropologist.
*Arthur Rubinstein, executive vice president for the University of Pennsylvania Health System and dean of theUniversity of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
*Peter Sarnak , mathematician.
*Harry Schwarz , anti-apartheid politician, lawyer and diplomat.
*Mark Sebba , linguist [http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/mark/]
*Friedel Sellschop , physicist [http://www.src.wits.ac.za/groups/jpfs/]
*Herbert Sichel , statistician.
*Joe Slovo , Communist politician, long time leader of theSouth African Communist Party (SACP), and leading member of theAfrican National Congress .
*Himla Soodyall, geneticist.
*Patrick Soon-Shiong , founderAbraxis BioScience , billionaire
*Helen Suzman , anti-apartheid activist and politician.
*Rupert Taylor , political scientist
*Phillip Tobias , paleoanthropologist and anatomist.
*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 atUniversity of Warwick
*Ivan Vladislavic , South African novelist
*David Webster, social anthropologist and anti-apartheid activist.
*Ernst Oswald Johannes Westphal , linguist and an expert in Bantu andKhoisan languages .
*John K. Lundy , visionary bioanthropologist and sagacious medical examiner.
*Helen Zille , Leader of theDemocratic Alliance (South Africa)
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