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JOHANNESBURG

Most Famous People Born in Johannesburg, South Africa

Notable people

1,234

Peak decade

1980s

Median birth year

1967

Most distinctive

Golf 14.8×

A young city with an old sporting establishment. Johannesburg's notables are dominated by cricketers, golfers, and rugby players at concentrations that, given the city's size, look almost statistical — the legacy of an English-speaking sporting culture that organised itself around the gold rush of the 1880s. There is almost no pre-20th-century tail at all; the entire bench fits inside the lifetime of the city itself.