List of University of the Witwatersrand people

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

Arts

Herman Charles Bosman, writer

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

• Norman Adami, President of Miller Brewing, Milwaukee, US; President and Chief Executive Officer of SABMiller Americas; holds a Bachelor of Business Science (Hons) from the University of Cape Town and an MBA from the University of the Witwatersrand Business School
• Ronnie Apteker, founder of Internet Solutions, one of South Africa's largest internet service providers
• Gary Barber, Chairman and CEO of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Bachelor of Commerce; certificate in the Theory of Accountancy
• Koos Bekker, former CEO of Naspers, an emerging markets media group operating in 129 countries; led the founding team of M-Net in 1985, which resulted in pay TV operations today spanning 48 countries in Africa; obtained a BA degree in law and an honours degree in languages at the University of Stellenbosch in 1974 and 1975 respectively; obtained a Bachelor of Laws degree from University of the Witwatersrand in 1978 and an MBA from Columbia University in 1984; awarded an honorary doctorate degree in commerce from the University of Stellenbosch
• Stan Bergman, Chairman and CEO of Henry Schein, Inc., the world's largest distributor of health products and services to office-based dental, medical and animal health practitioner; received his bachelor of commerce from the University of Witwatersrand; New York State Certified Public Accountant; member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants; South African Chartered Accountant
• Lael Bethlehem, former CEO of the Johannesburg Development Agency; Investment Executive at Hosken Consolidated Investments
• 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
• Thomas Boardman, non-executive director of Nedbank; former Chief Executive of the Group and the Bank; former Chief Executive and an executive director of BoE; former director of Boardmans, Sam Newman Limited, BoE International Holdings Limited, Northwind Investments; non-executive director of Mutual & Federal Insurance Company Limited and the Banking Association; director of Vodacom Group (Pty) Ltd and the WWF South Africa (World Wide Fund for Nature)
• Elizabeth Bradley, Non-Executive Chairman of Toyota SA Limited; former Executive Director of AngloGold
• David Charles Brink, Lead Independent Non-Executive Director at Steinhoff International Holdings Limited; holds a Bachelor Science in Mining Engineering and a Masters of Science in Engineering from the University of the Witwatersrand
• Robbie Brozin, CEO and founder of Nandos
• John Chalsty, Principal and Chairman of Muirfield Capital Management LLC, an asset management firm; holds a BSc in chemistry and physics, a BSc (Hons) and MSc in Chemistry from the University of the Witwatersrand; the University also awarded him an Honorary Doctorate in Commerce
• Steven Collis, CEO and President of AmerisourceBergen Corporation since 2011; earned a Bachelor of Commerce with Honors degree from University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg
• Alan Demby, founder of Scoin shops; executive chairperson of The Gold Group, incorporating the South African Gold Coin Exchange, the Scoin Shop and GIC
• Meyer Feldberg, Senior Advisor to Morgan Stanley
• 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
• Errol Glasser, US investment banker
• 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 in recognition of his services to the arts and business
• Adrian Gore, CEO of Discovery Holdings Ltd; Chairman of Destiny Health Inc. in the USA and Prudential Health Limited in the UK; graduated from Wits with a B.Sc. (Honours) in Actuarial Science; in 1990, he was admitted as a Fellow of the Faculty of Actuaries (Edinburgh), and in 1992 as an Associate of the Society of Actuaries (Chicago); member of the American Academy of Actuaries
• Vuyo Jack, CEO of Empowerdex
• Brian Joffe, Chief Executive Officer of Bidvest Plc; founded Bidvest Corporation in 1988
• Norm Judah, Microsoft Services chief technology officer of Worldwide Services and IT
• Dixit Joshi, head of equities for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa at Deutsche Bank
• Gail Kelly (born Gail Currer), Australian and South African businessperson; first woman CEO of a major Australian bank or top 15 company (2002); as of 2005 was the highest paid woman at an Australian corporation; CEO at Westpac
• 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
• Derek Keys (born 1931), finance minister of South Africa, 1992-1994, in the cabinets of F W de Klerk and Nelson Mandela
• 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
• Nic Kohler, CEO of Hollard, the largest independent and privately owned insurer in South Africa
• Stephen Koseff, CEO of Investec PLC and Investec Limited; Director of Bidvest Group Limited; Chartered Accountant
• Ludwig Lachmann, economist and important contributor to the Austrian School
• Mark Lamberti, Non-Executive Chairman of Massmart Holdings; Deputy Chairman of Massmart Holdings Ltd; Alternate Director of Servistar (Pty) Ltd; Non-Executive Director of Allied Electronics Corporation Ltd
• Adam Levy, property developer
• David S. Lobel, founder and Managing Partner of Sentinel Capital Partners, a leading middle-market private equity firm
• Graham Mackay, former Chairman and Ex-CEO of SABMiller plc, the world’s second largest beer brewer; appointed Group Managing Director in 1997 and Chief Executive of South African Breweries plc upon its listing on the London Stock Exchange in 1999; Senior Non-Executive Director of Reckitt Benckiser Group plc; serves on the Compensation and Leadership Development, Finance and Product Innovation and Regulatory Affairs Committees
• Geoffrey Matus, Canadian-based CEO and Chairman of HO Financial Limited; President of Mandukwe Inc
• Kim McFarland, CEO of Investec Asset Management (Pty) Ltd; Chief Financial Officer of Investec Asset Management (Pty) Ltd in Cape Town; member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants
• Martin Morgan, Chief Executive Officer and Director of DMGT
• 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; all the accused were convicted for their role in a campaign of peaceful protests against apartheid laws; chairperson of the Soweto Committee of Ten which was formed to run Soweto's affairs after the collapse of the Soweto Urban Bantu Council
• 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
• Charles Chinedu Okeahalam, economist and businessman, CEO of AGH Capital Group; former Liberty Life Professor of Financial Economics and Banking, University of the Witwatersrand
• Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, diamond and gold mining entrepreneur; financier; philanthropist; controlled De Beers; founded the Anglo American Corporation of South Africa
• Mark Prichard, CEO and a founding member of NMG Consultants and Actuaries (Pty) Ltd^[1]
• Alan Pullinger, CEO of Rand Merchant Bank
• Maria Ramos, economist and businesswoman; CEO of ABSA Group since 2009; former CEO of Transnet; named outstanding businesswoman of the year 2009 in the African Business Awards granted by the Commonwealth Business Council and African Business magazine
• Aanon Michael Rosholt, Chancellor of the University of the Witwatersrand, 1982-1996; Chairman of Barlows until his retirement; Chairman of the Urban Foundation, the Joint Education Trust and the National Business Initiative; received the Order of the Grand Counsellor of the Baobab from the South African government
• Victor Sekese, Chief Executive of SizweNtsalubaGobodo, the largest black-owned accounting firm in South Africa
• Patrick Soon-Shiong, South African-American surgeon; founder, chairman, and CEO of Abraxis BioScience, a biotechnology company developing cancer treatment; billionaire, according to Forbes magazine
• David Sussman, founder and Executive Chairman of the JD Group; founded Sustein (Pty) Ltd in 1983
• Tony Trahar, former chairman of Anglo American; educated at St John's College and the University of the Witwatersrand, after which he qualified as a chartered accountant; CEO of Anglo American 2000-2007
• Bridget van Kralingen, Senior Vice President, IBM Global Business Services
• Sir Mark Weinberg, South African-born British financier; founder of Abbey Life Assurance Company
• Lazarus Zim, founder of Afripalm Resources (Pty) Ltd in 2006, and its chairman; CEO of Anglo American Corporation of South Africa Ltd and Anglo American PLC since 2005; served as a member of the executive board of Anglo American Plc
• Brian Zylstra (1935-2012), graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce degree in 1957

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
• Patrick Deane, Vice-Chancellor and President, McMaster University, Canada
• Jane den Hollander, Vice-Chancellor and President, Deakin University, Australia
• Meyer Feldberg, dean of Columbia Business School 1989-2004; president of the Illinois Institute of Technology 1987-1989
• Prof Brenda Gourley, higher education pioneer; accountant
• Prof Adam Habib, Vice-chancellor and Principal University of the Witwatersrand
• Prof Jill Matus, Vice-Provost of Students and First-Entry Divisions, University of Toronto
• Prof Thandwa Mthembu, Vice-chancellor and Principal of Central University of Technology, Free State
• Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng, mathematics education researcher and academic
• Max Price, Vice-Chancellor, University of Cape Town, Johannesburg; former dean, Faculty of Health Sciences, 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
• Peter Sarnak, awarded the Wolf Prize 2014
• Michael Stevenson, President and Vice-Chancellor, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC

Historians

• Cornelis de Kiewiet
• C. I. Hamilton, British naval historian

Legal profession

4 May 2009: Dr Beric Croome was keynote speaker for the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) graduation ceremony for the students of the Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management. Photograph shows from left to right: Acting Vice-Chancellor, Professor Y Ballim; Dr Beric Croome; Professor David Kolitz, President of the Convocation of the University of the Witwatersrand.

• Prof David Bilchitz, professor at the University of Johannesburg and Director of the South African Institute for Advanced Constitutional, Public, Human Rights and International Law
• George Bizos, human rights advocate
• Professor Paul Boberg, legal academic and former Dean of the School of Law
• Ronald Bobroff, former President of the Law Society; current President of SAAPIL
• Amina Cachalia
• 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
• Arthur Chaskalson, former President of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and Chief Justice of South Africa
• 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
• John Dugard, professor of law^[2]
• Richard Goldstone, judge and international war crimes prosecutor
• Justice Anthony Gubbay
• The Honourable Justice David Hammerschlag, Supreme Court of New South Wales, Australia
• Professor Sir Bob Hepple
• Lord Joel Joffe, Bachelor of Commerce, Bachelor of Law (Wits), Honorary Doctorate of Law (Wits)
• Professor Ellison Kahn, legal scholar and former Dean of the School of Law
• Sydney Kentridge, advocate and Acting Justice of the Constitutional Court
• Mervyn E. King, former judge of the Supreme Court of South Africa and director of the Global Reporting Initiative
• 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
• Sir Sydney Lipworth, BCom, LLB, Honorary Doctor of Law
• 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.
• Israel "Isie" Aaron Maisels, QC
• Margaret H. Marshall, Chief Justice, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
• Bheki Mlangeni, anti-apartheid lawyer
• Dikgang Moseneke, Chancellor of the University of the Witwatersrand and Deputy Chief Justice of South Africa
• Advocate Dali Mpofu, anti-apartheid activist
• Tawanda Mutengwa, South African Australian legal scholar

Medicine

• Dr John Brereton Barlow - Barlow's syndrome
• Dr Thomas Hamilton Bothwell, pioneered the use of radioactivity as a tool to unravel the mysteries of iron metabolism; among the first in the world to describe radioiron kinetics in haemochromatosis and in normal iron metabolism
• Prof Sydney Brenner, biologist; 2002 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, shared with H. Robert Horvitz and John Sulston
• Dr Colin Caro, made a global impact in the field of biomedical engineering
• 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
• 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
• Dr Ronald F Dorfman, namesake of the benign disorder Sinus Histiocytosis with Massive Lymphadenopathy, "Rosai-Dorfman disease"
• Sir Terence English, cardiac surgeon
• Dr Esther Franks, first female ophthalmologist in South Africa
• Prof Glenda Gray, President of the South African Medical Research Council, pediatrician
• Dr Basil Hirschowitz, inventor of the first fiberoptic endoscope
• Dr Julien Hoffman, paediatric cardiologist; cardiac physiologist; expert in the epidemiology of congenital cardiovascular malformations
• Dr Michael Charles Kew, expert in causes of cancer of the liver
• 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
• Senior Surgeon Dr Phyllis Knocker, first woman surgeon in South Africa; first woman President of the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa (1983-1986)
• Professor Hendrik Koornhof, head of the Department of Medical Microbiology at Wits/SAIMR; studied infectious diseases and bacterial pathogens
• Dr William Harding le Riche, epidemiologist; established the first non-segregated health centre in Knysna
• Dr John K. Lundy, bioanthropologist and medical examiner
• Dr Strong Thabo Makenete, first Lesotho Permanent Secretary for Health in 1966 after independence
• Dr Mary Malahlela, first black woman doctor in South Africa
• Dr Kenneth Mathobela, first African dentist to graduate (BDS 1975) in South Africa
• 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 Nthatho Harrison Motlana, activist, academic, businessman, Mandela family physician
• Dr Bert Myburgh, performed first kidney/pancreas transplant operation in South Africa
• Dr Teresa Nxumalo, first African woman to qualify in dentistry in South Africa
• Dr Jack Penn, known for his innovative techniques in plastic surgery, notably the Brenthurst splint
• Dr Harry Seftel
• Dr Neil Segal, oncologist
• Dr Stephen Sergay, neurologist
• Emeritus Professor Lewis Spitz, paediatric surgeon
• Dr Bernard Tabatznik, put together the team that developed the implantable cardiac defibrillator, named one of the top 10 advances in cardiology in the 20th century
• 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

Politics and public service

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

Science and technology

David Forsyth, a computer vision researcher from the University of Witzwatersrand currently working at the University of Illinois

• Selig Percy Amoils, ophthalmologist and biomedical engineering inventor
• Lee Berger, paleoanthropologist, winner of the first National Geographic Prize for Research and Exploration
• Marlene Behrmann, cognitive neuroscientist specializing in visual perception, specifically object recognition; professor at Carnegie Mellon University
• 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
• Ron Clarke, paleoanthropologist
• Colin Gerald Caro, made discoveries in physiological fluid flow
• Raymond Dart, anatomist and anthropologist; discoverer of the Taung Child
• H. J. De Blij, geographer, professor, television personality, analyst
• Dr Bernie Fanaroff, physicist and Project Director at South African Square Kilometre Array Project
• David Forsyth, computer vision researcher at University of Illinois at Urbana champaign
• Max Gluckman, anthropologist
• Julien Hoffman, cardiologist, professor
• Paul F. Kantor, professor of pediatric cardiology; Chief of Paediatric Cardiology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
• David King, scientist
• James Kitching, Karooo paleontologist
• Aaron Klug, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1982
• Danie G. Krige, mining engineer who pioneered the field of geostatistics
• Robert Kröger, specialist in aquatic sciences; professor at Mississippi State University^[3]
• Doris Kuhlmann-Wilsdorf, known for her work in materials science
• Jonathan Lewis, surgical oncologist; biomedical researcher; developer of cancer drugs
• 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
• Tingye Li; pioneer in lasers and optical communication
• Doron Lubinsky, mathematician and author
• Kim Man Lui, software engineer
• John K. Lundy, bioanthropologist and medical examiner
• Frank Nabarro, solid state physicist, DVC
• Allistair Neil, geoscientist, first graduate of school of geosciences
• Wanda Orlikowski, information systems scholar
• Seymour Papert, artificial intelligence pioneer and inventor of the Logo programming language
• David Pettifor, physicist
• Audrey Richards, social anthropologist
• Professor Roy Robins-Browne, tropical medicine researcher
• Peter Sarnak, mathematician
• 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
• Friedel Sellschop, physicist ^[4]
• Herbert Sichel, statistician
• Himla Soodyall, geneticist
• Oskar Steffen, founded the international geotechnical consulting firm SRK Consulting; his partners Andy Robertson and Hendrik Kirsten are also graduates of the department
• Lars Georg Svensson, cardiac surgeon
• Phillip Tobias, paleoanthropologist and anatomist
• 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
• Sir Jack Zunz, Civil Engineer, knighted in 1989, awarded Honorary Doctorate of Science in Engineering (2015) from the University of the Witwatersrand.

Sports

• Michel Antelme, rugby
• Ali Bacher, former Test cricketer and an administrator of the United Cricket Board of South Africa
• Gary Bailey, football (played for England)
• Hugh Baiocchi, golf
• Edgar "Eddie" Barlow, cricketer
• Gordon Day, athlete
• Peter de Waal, cricket
• Malcolm Dorfman, karate
• Shané Dorfman, karate
• Bruce Fordyce, marathon and ultramarathon athlete who won the Comrades Marathon a record nine times (eight times consecutively)
• Henry Forrest, rugby
• Neville Graham, gymnast
• Chick Henderson, rugby union footballer and commentator
• Ian Holding, squash
• Stephen Jack, cricket
• Athol Jennings, rugby
• Joe Kaminer, rugby
• Piet Kruger, rugby
• Sonja Laxton, athlete
• Dave Levick, youngest person to win the Comrades marathon
• Jan Mallen, marathon and ultramarathon female athlete who won the Comrades Marathon
• George Mallory, first South African to summit Mount Everest (in the footsteps of his grandfather, of the same name)
• Natasha Meisler, judo
• Dr Alan Menter, chosen for the Springbok rugby team in 1968
• Paul Nash, athlete
• Syd Newman, rugby, England ’47-’49; SA trialist ‘49
• Mark Plaatjes
• Andrew Polasek
• 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
• Peter Rich, athlete
• Odette Richard, gymnastics
• Wilf Rosenberg, rugby
• Richard Snell, cricketer
• Clve Ulyate, rugby
• Elaine Winter, athlete
• Mandy Yachad, former cricketer and field hockey player who represented the South African national team in both sports

Miscellaneous

• Ken Costa, Chairman of Alpha International
• Jonathan Drummond-Webb
• Imran Garda, news anchor for Al Jazeera English.
• Giles Henderson, CBE, Master of Pembroke College, Oxford
• Reinhold Friedrich Alfred Hoernlé, Professor of Philosophy; Director of the Institute for Race Relations (1934); author; teacher, Race and Reason (Wits U.P., 1945), Studies in Philosophy (Harvard U.P., 1952)
• The Most Revd Thabo Makgoba, South African Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town
• Cedric Phatudi
• Akiva Tatz, rabbi, medical ethicist, author and orator

References

1. http://www.nmg.co.za/en/benefits/profile/directors.php
2. http://www.wits.ac.za/alumni/alumnirecognition/honorarydegreecitations/13203/christopherjohnrobertdugard.html
3. http://www.cfr.msstate.edu/wildlife/people/faculty_detail.asp?id=56&persID=2630
4. http://www.src.wits.ac.za/groups/jpfs/