- Bryan Habana, former Springbok Rugby player
- Mildred Mangxola, singer and member of the Mahotella Queens
- Jessica Marais, actress
- Brian Mitchell, boxing champion,
- Koos Ras, singer, comedian, writer and businessman
- Charlize Theron, Oscar-winning actress
- Charlene, Princess of Monaco, (née Charlene Wittstock), swimmer, and consort of Prince Albert II of Monaco
- Victor Vic Anthony Toweel, undisputed World bantamweight champion and South African boxing champion. He and his brothers were known as the ‘Fighting Toweels’ as they’d all won various regional boxing titles acround the world and Willie Toweel won bronze medal at the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki.
- Oliver Reginald Tambo, ANC, ANCYL and SACP hero during the Apartheid regime. He is one of the original co-signees (along with Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela et al.) to the ANC’s Freedom Charter (signed in 1955), most of which formed the preamble to South Africa’s Constitution and many of the country’s current policies.
- Frith van der Merwe, former schoolteacher and the most prolific female runner in the history of the Comrades Marathon. Her records in the up and down runs in the Comrades Marathon (set in 1988 and 1989 respectively) as well as her 1989 Two Oceans Marathon winning times still stand today.
- Mark Stent, DJ/Producer, Record Label Owner
- Themba Nkosi, better known as Euphonik
- Karabo Gosebo
- Jill Trappler, visual artist
- Bradley Player, cricketer
- Genevieve Morton, top model
- Morris Kahn (born 1930), Israeli billionaire, founder and chairman of Aurec Group
- Philip Holiday, IBF World Champion Boxer