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List of University of the Witwatersrand people

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Arts
Architecture and design
Business and entrepreneurship
Education
Engineering
Historians
Legal profession
Medicine
Politics and public service
Science and technology
Sports
Miscellaneous
References

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

Arts

Aggrey Klaaste, journalist, editor of the Sowetan, 1988-2002
Angelique Rockas, pioneer of multi-racial and multi-national theatre London
Anton Hartman, musician
Athol Williams, award-winning poet and social philosopher
Aura Herzog, Israeli writer
Benedict Wallet Vilakazi, Zulu poet, novelist, and educator, first black South African to receive a Ph.D
Candice Breitz, artist, video and photography
Cecil Skotnes, artist
Claire Johnston, singer, known as the face and voice of Mango Groove
Clare Loveday, composer
Clement M. Doke, linguist
Clinton Fein, artist, activist
Dr Hans George Adler, musicologist; collector and classical music promoter, Honorary Doctor of Philosophy (1978)
Ed Jordan, musician, composer, singer-songwriter, actor, TV and radio presenter; wrote and produced the orchestral score for Spud
Elisabeth Eybers, poet
Eric Fernie, art historian
Ernest Fleischmann (1924–2010), executive director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic
Ernst Oswald Johannes Westphal, linguist, expert in Bantu and Khoisan languages
Ezekiel Mphahlele, writer and academic
Ferial Haffajee, editor of the City Press; former editor of The Mail and Guardian in South Africa
Gary Barber, American film producer of South African descent; chairman and CEO of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer since 2010; co-founder of Spyglass Entertainment
Gavin Hood, writer, producer and director, directed Tsotsi
Harold Jenkins (Shakespeare scholar)
Herman Charles Bosman, writer and journalist
Ingrid de Kok, author and poet
Ivan Vladislavic, novelist
Janet Suzman, actress, director
Jani Allan, writer and journalist
Jillian Becker novelist, essayist, critic and expert on terrorism
Johnny Clegg, musician
Judith Mason, painter
Kendell Geers, artist
Kevin Volans, composer
Lewis Wolpert, developmental biologist, author, and broadcaster
Lionel Abrahams, novelist, poet, editor, critic, essayist and publisher
Lionel Ngakane, filmmaker
Lucy Allais, philosopher
Manfred Mann, keyboard player for the bands Manfred Mann and Manfred Mann's Earth Band
Martin Scherzinger, musicologist, composer, and music theorist ^[1]
Mbongeni Buthelezi, artist known for "painting" in plastic
Nadine Gordimer, Nobel Prize in Literature, 1991
Phaswane Mpe, poet and novelist
Pieter-Dirk Uys, entertainer, AIDS activist
Raymond Heard, journalist, editor, media executive, political strategist
Stan Katz, broadcaster
Shannon Esra, actress
William Kentridge, artist

Architecture and design

Denise Scott Brown, architect, planner, writer and educator
Rory Byrne, former chief designer for the Ferrari Formula One team
Pancho Guedes, Portuguese architect, participant of Team X

Business and entrepreneurship

Adam Levy, property developer
Adrian Gore, CEO of Discovery Holdings Ltd; Chairman of Destiny Health Inc. in the USA and Prudential Health Limited in the UK
Bridget van Kralingen, Senior Vice President, IBM Global Business Services
Charles Chinedu Okeahalam, economist and businessman, CEO of AGH Capital Group; former Liberty Life Professor of Financial Economics and Banking, University of the Witwatersrand
Derek Keys (born 1931), finance minister of South Africa, 1992-1994, in the cabinets of F W de Klerk and Nelson Mandela
Donald Gordon, founder of life insurance company Liberty Life in 1958 with R100,000 when he was 27 years old; awarded a knighthood in 2005
Elizabeth Bradley, Non-Executive Chairman of Toyota SA Limited; former Executive Director of AngloGold
Gail Kelly (born Gail Currer), Australian and South African businessperson; first woman CEO of a major Australian bank or top 15 company (2002)
Gary Barber, Chairman and CEO of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Bachelor of Commerce; certificate in the Theory of Accountancy
Gordon Schachat, co-founder of African Bank Limited and prominent art collector
Graham Mackay, former Chairman and Ex-CEO of SABMiller plc, the world's second largest beer brewer
Ivan Glasenberg, CEO of Glencore, one of the world's largest commodity trading companies; on the boards of mining companies Xstrata plc and Minara Resources Ltd
Koos Bekker, former CEO of Naspers
Lael Bethlehem, former CEO of the Johannesburg Development Agency; Investment Executive at Hosken Consolidated Investments
Ludwig Lachmann, economist and important contributor to the Austrian School
Maria Ramos, economist and businesswoman; CEO of ABSA Group since 2009; former CEO of Transnet
Martin Morgan, Chief Executive Officer and Director of DMGT
Meyer Feldberg, Senior Advisor to Morgan Stanley
Nathan Kirsh, South African-born Swazi business magnate, with a property empire spanning the UK, Swaziland and Australia; has Swazi citizenship; has residency status in the UK and the USA
Nthato Motlana, giant of South African business and the anti-apartheid struggle; one of the accused, with Mandela and 18 others, in the 1952 Defiance Campaign Trial
Patrice Motsepe, South African mining magnate; according to Forbes magazine, worth more than R17-billion after adding a further R7-billion to his net worth in 2009
Patrick Soon-Shiong, South African-American surgeon; founder, chairman, and CEO of Abraxis BioScience
Ronnie Apteker, founder of Internet Solutions, one of South Africa's largest internet service providers
Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, diamond and gold mining entrepreneur; financier; philanthropist; controlled De Beers; founded the Anglo American Corporation of South Africa
Sir Mark Weinberg, South African-born British financier; founder of Abbey Life Assurance Company
Sol Kerzner, hotel and gambling magnate; created the most successful hotel group in South Africa, Sun International; Chairman of the Board of Kerzner International, based in the Bahamas
Tony Trahar, former chairman of Anglo American; educated at St John's College and the University of the Witwatersrand
Sir Winfried Franz Wilhem Bischoff, Anglo-German banker; chairman of Lloyds Banking Group plc; former chairman and former interim CEO of Citigroup; knighted in 2000

Education

Colin Bundy, Warden of Green College, Oxford; former Director and Principal of School of Oriental and African Studies, former Deputy Vice Chancellor of University of London; former Vice Chancellor and Principal of University of the Witwatersrand
Arthur Rubinstein, executive vice president for the University of Pennsylvania Health System; dean of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Garth Saloner, Dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Business
Jane den Hollander, Vice-Chancellor and President, Deakin University, Australia
Max Price, Vice-Chancellor, University of Cape Town, Johannesburg; former dean, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand
Meyer Feldberg, dean of Columbia Business School 1989-2004; president of the Illinois Institute of Technology 1987-1989
Michael Stevenson, President and Vice-Chancellor, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC
Patrick Deane, Vice-Chancellor and President, McMaster University, Canada
Peter Sarnak, awarded the Wolf Prize 2014, Honorary doctorate 2014: University of the Witwatersrand
Prof Adam Habib, Vice-chancellor and Principal University of the Witwatersrand
Prof Brenda Gourley, higher education pioneer; accountant
Prof Loyiso Nongxa, Vice-chancellor and Principal University of the Witwatersrand
Mark Mostert Professor, of Special Education at Regent University author and lecturer on Eugenics, Facilitated Communication and "useless eaters.
Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng, Vice-chancellor of the University of Cape Town, mathematics education researcher and academic.

Engineering

Sir Jack Zunz^[2]
John Burland^[2]
Lewis Wolpert^[2]
Michael Bear^[2]
Rob Pullen^[2]

Historians

C. I. Hamilton, British naval historian
Cornelis de Kiewiet
Bruce Murray
Charles van Onselen
Charles Hilliard Feinstein (18 March 1932 – 27 November 2004) was a noted South African and British economic historian. He was born in Johannesburg, received his early education at Parktown Boys' High School and studied at Witwatersrand University and Cambridge University where he completed his doctorate.

Legal profession

Amina Cachalia
Arthur Chaskalson, former President of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and Chief Justice of South Africa
Azhar Cachalia, Judge at the South African Supreme Court of Appeal; anti-apartheid activist; a founding member of the United Democratic Front; served as Secretary for Safety and Security
Beric John Croome, Advocate of the High Court of South Africa; Chartered Accountant CA (SA); taxpayers' rights legal pioneer; completed a Higher Diploma in Tax Law (cum laude) at the University of the Witwatersrand in 1989; awarded the Edward Nathan Friedland Tax Prize for the year; 2002 nominee for the University's Convocation Honour Award for his contribution to commerce and industry
Dikgang Moseneke, Chancellor of the University of the Witwatersrand and Deputy Chief Justice of South Africa
Dr Charles Theodore Te Water, Honorary Doctor of Law(1955)
George Bizos, human rights advocate
Ismail Mahomed (1931-2000), appointed to the Constitutional Court in 1994; was made Chief Justice in 1998, a position he held until his death in 2000.
Jody Kollapen, Judge of the High Court of South Africa; former commissioner of the South African Human Rights Commission; former attorney and member of Lawyers for Human Rights
John Dugard, professor of law^[3]
Justice Anthony Gubbay
Justice Bheki Maphalala
Margaret H. Marshall, Chief Justice, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Mervyn E. King, former judge of the Supreme Court of South Africa and director of the Global Reporting Initiative
Michael Sutherland
Michael Arnheim
Professor Sir Bob Hepple
Richard Goldstone, judge and international war crimes prosecutor
Sydney Kentridge, advocate and Acting Justice of the Constitutional Court
Johan D. van der Vyver, I.T. Cohen Professor of International Law and Human Rights at Emory University School of Law, formerly a professor of law at Wits

Medicine

Dr Selig Percy Amoils, Inventor of the Cryoprobe, recipient of the silver Order of Mapungubwe in 2006
Dr John Brereton Barlow - Barlow's syndrome
Dr Julien Hoffman, paediatric cardiologist; cardiac physiologist; expert in the epidemiology of congenital cardiovascular malformations
Dr Mary Malahlela, first black woman doctor in South Africa
Dr Nthatho Harrison Motlana, activist, academic, businessman, Mandela family physician
Dr Saul Levin, U.S.-based psychiatrist
Dr Alan Menter (MBBCh, 1966, Wits), dermatologist; expert on psoriasis; Chairman of the Division of Dermatology; Director of the Dermatology Residency program for Baylor University Medical Center; Clinical Professor of Dermatology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
Dr Basil Hirschowitz, inventor of the first fiberoptic endoscope
Dr George Cohen, radiologist; established Harry's Angels, the world's largest international flying medical specialist service, which performed over 5.500 operations by the end of 1977, and examined and treated more than 40.000 non-operative cases
Dr Catherine Nyongesa, radiation oncologist
Dr Jack Penn, known for his innovative techniques in plastic surgery, notably the Brenthurst splint
Dr Priscilla Kincaid-Smith, "the mother of nephrology", appointed Commander of The Order of the British Empire (Civil) in 1975, for services to medicine; appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia; first woman to become President of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (1986–1988); won Australian Achiever Award in 1997 for a lifetime's work in renal health
Dr William Harding le Riche, epidemiologist; established the first non-segregated health centre in Knysna
Prof Glenda Gray, President of the South African Medical Research Council, pediatrician
Prof Phillip Tobias, palaeoanthropologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg; known for his work at South Africa's hominid fossil sites; anti-apartheid activist
Prof Sydney Brenner, biologist; 2002 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, shared with H. Robert Horvitz and John Sulston
Professor Raymond Dart, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, 1925-1943, the longest term of service in that capacity; announced the discovery of the Taung skull, the first of Africa's early hominids, and named the species Australopithecus Africanus
Sir Terence English, cardiac surgeon
Dr Shereen Usdin, public health specialist
Professor James Ware, surgeon
Dr Sylvia Weir, pioneered the use of robotics in autism therapy

Politics and public service

Achille Mbembe, philosopher and political scientist, staff member at Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research
Adrian Guelke, political scientist
Ahmed Kathrada, politician, anti-apartheid activist and political prisoner
Barbara Hogan, Minister of Public Enterprises in the Cabinet of South Africa; former Minister of Health
Baron Joel Joffe, human rights lawyer who represented Nelson Mandela in the Rivonia Trial
Bernard Friedman, senior lecturer in otolaryngology; founder of the Progressive Party
Connie Mulder, former politician
David Webster, social anthropologist and anti-apartheid activist
Dennis Brutus, former political activist and poet
Eduardo Mondlane, father of Mozambican independence
Essop Pahad, anti-apartheid activist and politician
Gwede Mantashe, politician; ANC secretary general and chairperson of the South African Communist Party
Harry Schwarz, lawyer, politician, ambassador to United States and anti-apartheid leader
Helen Suzman, anti-apartheid activist and member of Parliament
Helen Zille, leader of the Democratic Alliance
Jan Hofmeyr, politician
Jef Valkeniers, doctor and politician
Joe Slovo, Communist politician; long-time leader of the South African Communist Party; leading member of the African National Congress
John Matisonn, political journalist and author
Lucien van der Walt, sociologist and co-author, along with Michael Schmidt, of The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism (Counter-Power vol. 1)
Mamphela Ramphele, academic, businesswoman, medical doctor and anti-apartheid activist
Mmusi Maimane, politician and DA leader
Natan Gamedze, Swazi Prince, Supreme Court Translator and Orthodox rabbi
Nelson Mandela, first President of South Africa to be elected in fully representative democratic elections
Robert Sobukwe, political dissident; founded the Pan Africanist Congress in opposition to the apartheid regime
Rupert Taylor, political scientist
Ruth First, anti-apartheid activist and scholar
Sir Michael Bear, former Lord Mayor of London 2010/11
Teresa Heinz Kerry, philanthropist, wife of U.S. Senator John Kerry
Thulas Nxesi, Minister of Public Works
Thuli Madonsela, Public Protector of South Africa
Tony Leon, politician and former leader of the Democratic Alliance
Tshilidzi Marwala, academic, businessman and political theorist
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, ex-wife of Nelson Mandela

Science and technology

Lucinda Backwell, paleoanthropologist
Aaron Klug, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1982
Audrey Richards, social anthropologist
Danie G. Krige, mining engineer who pioneered the field of geostatistics
David Forsyth, computer vision researcher at University of Illinois at Urbana champaign
David King, scientist
John Edmund Kerrich, first head of the Statistics department. Famous for experiments in probability performed while interned (in Denmark) during the second world war.
David Lewis-Williams, Professor emeritus of Cognitive Archaeology at the University of the Witwatersrand; specialist in Upper-Palaeolithic and Bushmen rock art; founder of the Rock Art Research Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand
David Pettifor, physicist
Doris Kuhlmann-Wilsdorf, known for her work in materials science
Dr Bernie Fanaroff, physicist and Project Director at South African Square Kilometre Array Project
Frank Nabarro, solid state physicist, DVC
Friedel Sellschop, physicist ^[4]
H. J. De Blij, geographer, professor, television personality, analyst
Herbert Sichel, statistician
Himla Soodyall, geneticist
James Kitching, Karooo paleontologist
Jan C. A. Boeyens, chemist
John Burland, Emeritus Professor and Senior Research Investigator at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Imperial College London; Professor of Geotechnical Engineering at the Imperial College, London; led the international consulting team that stabilized the leaning tower of Pisa; one of the few engineers to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Society
Jonathan Lewis, surgical oncologist; biomedical researcher; developer of cancer drugs
Julien Hoffman, cardiologist, professor
Kim Man Lui, software engineer
Lars Georg Svensson, cardiac surgeon
Lee Berger, paleoanthropologist, winner of the first National Geographic Prize for Research and Exploration
Lewis Wolpert, graduated in Civil Engineering; studied biology at Imperial College; Professor of Biology Applied to Medicine at University College, London; Fellow of the Royal Society; popular science lecturer and writer
Marlene Behrmann, cognitive neuroscientist specializing in visual perception, specifically object recognition; professor at Carnegie Mellon University
Max Gluckman, anthropologist
Peter Sarnak, mathematician
Phillip Tobias, paleoanthropologist and anatomist
Raymond Dart, anatomist and anthropologist; discoverer of the Taung Child
Ron Clarke, paleoanthropologist
Beric Skews scientist, faculty member
Selig Percy Amoils, ophthalmologist and biomedical engineering inventor
Seymour Papert, artificial intelligence pioneer and inventor of the Logo programming language
Sir Basil Schonland, Honorary Doctor of Science (1957); founding director of the Bernard Price Institute of Geophysics at the University of the Witwatersrand; made significant contributions to the study of atmospheric electricity, photographing lightning and investigating the electric fields generated by thunderclouds
Tingye Li; pioneer in lasers and optical communication
Wanda Orlikowski, information systems scholar

Sports

Ali Bacher, former Test cricketer and an administrator of the United Cricket Board of South Africa
Bruce Fordyce, marathon and ultramarathon athlete who won the Comrades Marathon a record nine times (eight times consecutively)
Chick Henderson, rugby union footballer and commentator
Dr Alan Menter, chosen for the Springbok rugby team in 1968
Gary Bailey, football (played for England)
George Mallory, first South African to summit Mount Everest (in the footsteps of his grandfather, of the same name)
Gordon Day, athlete
Hendrik Ramaala, winner of the 2004 New York City Marathon and 2004 Mumbai Marathon; has two silver medals from the IAAF World Half Marathon Championships in 1998 and 1999; in 2006 he won the men's Great North Run; two-time national champion in the 5.000 metres
Hugh Baiocchi, golf
Ian Holding, squash
Joe Kaminer, rugby
Mandy Yachad, former cricketer and field hockey player who represented the South African national team in both sports
Mark Plaatjes
Odette Richard, gymnastics
Paul Nash, athlete
Richard Snell, cricketer
Stephen Jack, cricket
Wilf Rosenberg, rugby

Miscellaneous

Akiva Tatz, rabbi, medical ethicist, author and orator
Cedric Phatudi
Giles Henderson, CBE, Master of Pembroke College, Oxford
Imran Garda, news anchor for Al Jazeera English.
Jonathan Drummond-Webb
Ken Costa, Chairman of Alpha International
The Most Revd Thabo Makgoba, South African Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town

References

1. ^https://www.wits.ac.za/wsoa/music/alumni/
2. ^¹²³⁴{{cite web|url=https://www.wits.ac.za/ebe/schools/civil-and-environmental-engineering/about-us/distinguished-graduates/|title=Distinguished graduates|publisher=School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of the Witwatersrand|accessdate=9 July 2018}}
3. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.wits.ac.za/alumni/alumnirecognition/honorarydegreecitations/13203/christopherjohnrobertdugard.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2013-06-25 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130624021301/http://www.wits.ac.za/alumni/alumnirecognition/honorarydegreecitations/13203/christopherjohnrobertdugard.html |archivedate=24 June 2013 |df=dmy-all }}
4. ^http://www.src.wits.ac.za/groups/jpfs/

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