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 six faculties of the university: Commerce, Humanities, Sciences, Health Sciences, Engineering, and Law.
Commerce
- Roelof Botha, grandson of Pik Botha; began his career as an actuary and became a venture capitalist
- Chelsy Davy, ex-girlfriend of Britain's Prince Harry
- Nick Mallett, played for and later coached the Springboks, South Africa's national rugby union team
- Tshediso Matona, CEO of Eskom
- Mark Shuttleworth, billionaire entrepreneur; founder of Canonical Ltd; sponsor of the Ubuntu Linux distribution; second space tourist
Humanities
- Professor Emeritus J. M. Coetzee, Literature, 2003
- Jean Comaroff, professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago
- John Comaroff, professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago
- Harold Cressy, head teacher and first coloured person to gain a degree in South Africa
- Roger Ebert, film critic, graduated with an English degree as part of a Rotary International program
- David Fanning, Emmy Award-winning producer of Frontline
- Bobby Godsell, Masters of Arts, later CEO of AngloGold Ashanti and Chairman of Eskom
- Johannes de Villiers Graaff, professor of welfare economics; economist
- Adrian Guelke, Professor of Comparative Politics at Queen's University Belfast
- Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr, deputy prime minister of South Africa, obtained an M.A. at the age of 17
- Philip Edgecumbe Hughes, New Testament scholar, Professor at Westminster Theological Seminary
- Edward Neville Isdell, former CEO of the Coca-Cola Company
- Gail Kelly, CEO of Westpac; 8th most influential woman in the world, according to Forbes magazine
- David Lewis-Williams, 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; founder of The Namibian
- Nicolaas Petrus van Wyk Louw, Afrikaans-language poet, playwright and scholar
- Steven Markovitz, award-winning film and television producer
- André du Pisani, political scientist and professor at University of Namibia
- Mamphela Ramphele, managing director of the World Bank; former Vice-Chancellor of UCT
- Isaac Schapera, Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics; leading expert in the anthropology of South African tribesmen
- Carmel Schrire, Professor of Archaeology, Rutgers University
- Robert Carl-Heinz Shell, South African author and professor of African Studies
- Andries Treurnicht, founder and the leader of the Conservative Party in South Africa
- Mary Watson, 2006 winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing
Music
- Richard Cock, conductor
- Cromwell Everson, classical music composer and composer of the first Afrikaans opera
- Ernest Fleischmann, impresario best known for his tenure at the Los Angeles Philharmonic[1]
- Malcolm Forsyth, musician; composer; Canadian Composer of the Year; Juno Award winner; member of Order of Canada
- Hendrik Hofmeyr, composer and music theorist; winner of the 1997 Queen Elisabeth of Belgium Composition Prize; Professor of Music at the South African College of Music, University of Cape Town
- Galt MacDermot, composer of the musical Hair
- James May, musicologist; Emeritus Professor of Music; former Dean and Director of the South African College of Music, University of Cape Town
- Barry Smith, organist, conductor, musicologist, former Associate Professor of Music at the South African College of Music, University of Cape Town
- Francois du Toit, concert pianist; Associate Professor of Music; former Deputy Director of the South African College of Music, University of Cape Town
- Pretty Yende
Fine art
- Anne Bean, British installation and performance artist
- Breyten Breytenbach, author
- Roger Ebert, Pulitzer Award-winning American film critic and writer
- Jonathan Shapiro, South African political cartoonist known as "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
Sciences
- Professor Allan McLeod Cormack, Medicine, 1979
- Hilary Deacon, Professor of Archaeology at the University of Stellenbosch specialising in the emergence of modern humans and African archaeology
- Emanuel Derman, Goldman Sachs financial engineer and author of My Life As A Quant
- Jonathan M. Dorfan, director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
- Professor Mulalo Doyoyo, South African engineer and inventor; known for inventing cenocell, a cementless concrete
- George Ellis, cosmologist; collaborator with Stephen Hawking; winner of the 2004 Templeton Prize
- Sir Aaron Klug, Chemistry, 1982
- Paul Maritz, former Microsoft executive; VMware CEO
- Chris Pinkham, former Vice-President, IT Infrastructure at Amazon.com; founder of Nimbula, a startup funded by Sequoia Capital
- Magdalena Sauer, first woman to qualify as an architect in South Africa
- Sydney Harold Skaife,South African entomologist and naturalist
- Stanley Skewes, number theorist most famous in popular mathematics for his bound for the point of changeover in magnitude between the number of primes up to a certain number and an important approximation of this, which was for many years the largest finite number ever legitimately used in a research paper
- Willem Van Biljon, former co-founder of Mosaic Software, acquired by S1 Corporation ; founder of Nimbula, a startup funded by Sequoia Capital
- Richard van der Riet Woolley, British astronomer who became Astronomer Royal
Health sciences
- Neil Aggett, South African trade union leader and labour activist who died in custody after 70 days' detention without trial
- Frances Ames, first woman to receive an MD degree from UCT; first female professor at UCT
- Professor Christiaan Barnard, performed the world's first heart transplant at Groote Schuur Hospital
- Enid Charles, statistician and demographer
- David Cooper,theorist and leader in the anti-psychiatry movement
- Margaret Keay (1911-1998), plant pathologist[2]
- Bongani Mayosi, cardiologist and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine
- Max Theiler, virologist awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1951 for developing a vaccine against yellow fever
- Kit Vaughan, emeritus professor of biomedical engineering and CEO at CapeRay
Social sciences
- John Karlin, industrial psychologist whose research led to the rectangular push-button telephone[3]
- Debora Patta, broadcast journalist and television producer[4]
- Joel Pollak, editor-in-chief of Breitbart.com
- Lady Kitty Spencer, psychologist; niece of Diana, Princess of Wales; first cousin of the Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry
Law and government
- Sheila Camerer, South African politician; former Deputy Minister of Justice; long-serving Member of Parliament of the main opposition the Democratic Alliance; ambassador to Bulgaria; completed a Bachelor of Law degree at UCT in 1964
- Ryan Coetzee, South African politician; former CEO of the Democratic Alliance and Shadow Minister of Economic Development; chief strategist for Western Cape premier Helen Zille; graduated from UCT in 1994
- Beric John Croome, Advocate of the High Court of South Africa; Chartered Accountant CA (SA); taxpayers' rights pioneer; completed a Bachelor of Commerce degree (1980), Certificate in the Theory of Accountancy (1981) and a PhD (Commercial Law) (2008) at UCT[5]
- Zainunnisa "Cissie" Gool, anti-apartheid political and civil rights leader
- Ian Neilson, Executive Deputy Mayor of Cape Town
- Kate O'Regan, former Constitutional Court of South Africa judge
- Dullah Omar, South African anti-apartheid activist; lawyer; Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa; minister in the South African cabinet from 1994 until his death
- Justice Albie Sachs, of the Constitutional Court of South Africa
- James Selfe, long-serving Member of Parliament with the Democratic Alliance; chairperson of the party's federal council; holds a Master's degree from UCT
- Donald Woods, South African journalist and anti-apartheid activist
- Percy Yutar, South Africa's first Jewish attorney-general and prosecutor of Nelson Mandela in the 1963 Rivonia Treason Trial
References
- ↑ Luther, Claudia. "Ernest Fleischmann dies at 85; manager who guided Los Angeles Philharmonic's transformation", Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2010. Accessed 20 June 2010.
- ↑ http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-margaret-keay-1184730.html
- ↑ FOX, Margalit (8 February 2013). "John E. Karlin, Who Led the Way to All-Digit Dialing, Dies at 94". New York Times. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
- ↑ "Debora Patta resigns as e.tv head of news." IOL. 1 October 2009. Retrieved on 30 October 2012.
- ↑ "DigiTool – Results – Full". Srvrhldig001.uct.ac.za.
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