List of University of the Witwatersrand people
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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; 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
- Alan Demby, founder of Scoin shops; executive chairperson of The Gold Group, incorporating the South African Gold Coin Exchange, the Scoin Shop and GIC
- Alan Pullinger, CEO of Rand Merchant Bank
- Brian Joffe, Chief Executive Officer of Bidvest Plc; founded Bidvest Corporation in 1988
- Brian Zylstra (1935-2012), graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce degree in 1957
- 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
- 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
- David S. Lobel, founder and Managing Partner of Sentinel Capital Partners, a leading middle-market private equity firm
- David Sussman, founder and Executive Chairman of the JD Group; founded Sustein (Pty) Ltd in 1983
- Derek Keys (born 1931), finance minister of South Africa, 1992-1994, in the cabinets of F W de Klerk and Nelson Mandela
- Dixit Joshi, head of equities for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa at Deutsche Bank
- 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
- Elizabeth Bradley, Non-Executive Chairman of Toyota SA Limited; former Executive Director of AngloGold
- Errol Glasser, US investment banker
- 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
- Gary Barber, Chairman and CEO of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Bachelor of Commerce; certificate in the Theory of Accountancy
- Geoffrey Matus, Canadian-based CEO and Chairman of HO Financial Limited; President of Mandukwe Inc
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Lael Bethlehem, former CEO of the Johannesburg Development Agency; Investment Executive at Hosken Consolidated Investments
- 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
- 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; named outstanding businesswoman of the year 2009 in the African Business Awards granted by the Commonwealth Business Council and African Business magazine
- 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
- Mark Prichard, CEO and a founding member of NMG Consultants and Actuaries (Pty) Ltd[1]
- 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
- Nic Kohler, CEO of Hollard, the largest independent and privately owned insurer in South Africa
- Norm Judah, Microsoft Services chief technology officer of Worldwide Services and IT
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Robbie Brozin, CEO and founder of Nandos
- 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
- 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
- Stephen Koseff, CEO of Investec PLC and Investec Limited; Director of Bidvest Group Limited; Chartered Accountant
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- Victor Sekese, Chief Executive of SizweNtsalubaGobodo, the largest black-owned accounting firm in South Africa
- Vuyo Jack, CEO of Empowerdex
- 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
- Prof Adam Habib, Vice-chancellor and Principal University of the Witwatersrand
- Prof Brenda Gourley, higher education pioneer; accountant
- Prof Jill Matus, Vice-Provost of Students and First-Entry Divisions, University of Toronto
- Mark Mostert Professor, of Special Education at Regent University author and lecturer on Eugenics, Facilitated Communication and "useless eaters.
- Prof Thandwa Mthembu, Vice-chancellor and Principal of Central University of Technology, Free State
- Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng, mathematics education researcher and academic
Historians
- C. I. Hamilton, British naval historian
- Cornelis de Kiewiet
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
- 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[2]
- Justice Anthony Gubbay
- Lord Joel Joffe, Bachelor of Commerce, Bachelor of Law (Wits), Honorary Doctorate of Law (Wits)
- 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
- 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
- Professor Ellison Kahn, legal scholar and former Dean of the School of Law
- Professor Paul Boberg, legal academic and former Dean of the School of Law
- Professor Sir Bob Hepple
- Richard Goldstone, judge and international war crimes prosecutor
- Ronald Bobroff, former President of the Law Society; current President of SAAPIL
- Sir Sydney Lipworth, BCom, LLB, Honorary Doctor of Law
- Sydney Kentridge, advocate and Acting Justice of the Constitutional Court
- Tawanda Mutengwa, South African Australian legal scholar
- The Honourable Justice David Hammerschlag, Supreme Court of New South Wales, Australia
Medicine
- 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 Jack Penn, known for his innovative techniques in plastic surgery, notably the Brenthurst splint
- Dr Neil Segal, oncologist
- 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
- Senior Surgeon Dr Phyllis Knocker, first woman surgeon in South Africa; first woman President of the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa (1983-1986)
- Sir Terence English, cardiac surgeon
- Professor James Ware, surgeon
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 Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism (Counter-Power vol. 1)
- Mamphela Ramphele, academic, businesswoman, medical doctor and anti-apartheid activist
- 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
- Pennuell Maduna, former Minister of Justice of South Africa
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Doron Lubinsky, mathematician and author
- Dr Bernie Fanaroff, physicist and Project Director at South African Square Kilometre Array Project
- Frank Nabarro, solid state physicist, DVC
- Friedel Sellschop, physicist [3]
- Sir Jack Zunz, Civil Engineer, knighted in 1989, awarded Honorary Doctorate of Science in Engineering (2015) from the University of the Witwatersrand.
- 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
- 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
- Henry Forrest, rugby
- 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
- ↑ http://www.nmg.co.za/en/benefits/profile/directors.php
- ↑ http://www.wits.ac.za/alumni/alumnirecognition/honorarydegreecitations/13203/christopherjohnrobertdugard.html
- ↑ http://www.src.wits.ac.za/groups/jpfs/
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