List of University of the Witwatersrand people

This is a list of notable alumni and staff of the University of the Witwatersrand.

*Lionel Abrahams, novelist, poet, editor, critic, essayist and publisher.
*William Kentridge, South African Artist.
*Amancio D'Alpoim (Pancho) Guedes, Portuguese architect, participant of Team 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 of Citigroup, 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 the Ferrari Formula One team.
*Arthur Chaskalson, former President of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and Chief Justice of South Africa.
*Ron Clarke Paleoanthropologist.
*Johnny Clegg, musician.
*Raymond Dart, anatomist and anthropologist, discoverer of the Taung 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 the Comrades Marathon a record nine times (eight times consecutively).
*David A. Forsyth, machine vision researcher.
*Natan Gamedze, Swazi Prince, Supreme Court Translator and Orthodox Rabbi.
*Imran Garda, News Anchor for Al Jazeera English.
*Max Gluckman, anthropologist.
*Richard Goldstone, judge and international war crimes prosecutor.
*Adrian Guelke, political scientist
*Giles Henderson, CBE, Master of Pembroke 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 the Rivonia Trial.
*Norm Judah, Microsoft Services chief technology officer of Worldwide Services and IT
*Claire Johnston, singer best known as the face and voice of Mango 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. Senator John 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 of geostatistics.
*Ludwig Lachmann, economist and important contributor to the Austrian 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, former veternarian.
*Nelson Mandela, the first President of South Africa to be elected in fully-representative democratic elections.
*Manfred Mann, Keyboard player for the bands Manfred Mann and Manfred 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 the Logo 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 the University 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 the South African Communist Party (SACP), and leading member of the African National Congress.
*Himla Soodyall, geneticist.
*Patrick Soon-Shiong, founder Abraxis 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 at University 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 and Khoisan languages.
*John K. Lundy, visionary bioanthropologist and sagacious medical examiner.
*Helen Zille, Leader of the Democratic Alliance (South Africa)