List of famous people from Kimberley, Northern Cape

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• Frances Baard
  Frances Baard
  Frances Goitsemang Baard was a South African trade unionist, organiser for the African National Congress Women's League and a Patron of the United Democratic Front, who was commemorated in the renaming of the Diamantveld District Municipality as the Frances Baard District Municipality.-Background...
  
  , trade-unionist who grew up in Kimberley - and after whom the District Municipality is named.
• Barney Barnato
  Barney Barnato
  Barney Barnato , born Barnet Isaacs, was a British Randlord, one of the entrepreneurs who gained control of diamond mining, and later gold mining, in South Africa from the 1870s.-Background:...
  
  
• Alfred Beit
  Alfred Beit
  Alfred Beit was a German, British South African, Jewish gold and diamond magnate, a supporter of British imperialism in Southern Africa and a major donor towards infrastructure development in central and Southern Africa, and to university education and research in several countries.- Life and...
  
  
• Benjamin Bennett
  Benjamin Bennett
  Benjamin Holland Bennett was an Australian politician. Born in Young, New South Wales, he was educated at public schools before becoming the manager and editor of the family-run newspaper in Young...
  
  , author.
• Collin Bosman 2010 FiFa World Cup Coordinator for Sol Plaatje Municipality -Base Camp for Team URUGUAY.

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• Clive Derby-Lewis
  Clive Derby-Lewis
  Clive John Derby-Lewis is a South African ex-politician, who was involved first in the National Party and then, while serving as a Member of Parliament, in the Conservative Party. He is serving a life sentence for his role in the assassination of South African Communist Party leader Chris Hani...
  
  , politician, imprisoned for his role in the assassination
  Assassination
  To carry out an assassination is "to murder by a sudden and/or secret attack, often for political reasons." Alternatively, assassination may be defined as "the act of deliberately killing someone, especially a public figure, usually for hire or for political reasons."An assassination may be...
  
   of Chris Hani
  Chris Hani
  Chris Hani, born Martin Thembisile Hani was the leader of the South African Communist Party and chief of staff of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the African National Congress . He was a fierce opponent of the apartheid government...
  
  . Born in Cape Town
  Cape Town
  Cape Town is the second-most populous city in South Africa, and the provincial capital and primate city of the Western Cape. As the seat of the National Parliament, it is also the legislative capital of the country. It forms part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality...
  
   but grew up in Kimberley.
• Manne Dipico
  Manne Dipico
  Manne Emsley Dipico, first Premier of the Northern Cape Province, South Africa, was born in Kimberley on 21 April 1959. He was appointed Chairman of the Nuclear Energy Corporation of South Africa in 2006...
  
  
• Frank Dobbin
  Uncle Dobbin
  Frederick James Dobbin universally known as Uncle Dobbin was a South African rugby union player who represented South Africa on nine occasions...
  
  , rugby player

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• Kgosi Galeshewe
  Kgosi Galeshewe
  Kgosi Galeshewe was a chief of the Tlhaping tribe in South Africa. The Kimberley township of Galeshewe as well as a South African Navy fast attack craft is named after him....
  
  , BaTlhaping leader and anti-colonial resistance leader.
• Henry Richard Giddy, member of the Red Cap Party that led the rush on Colesberg Kopje or 'New Rush', later Kimberley

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• Aggrey Klaaste
  Aggrey Klaaste
  Aggrey Zola Klaaste was a South African newspaperjournalist and editor. He was best known for being editor of the Soweto-based newspaper, the Sowetan, from 1988 to 2002...
  
  , Editor of The Sowetan
  The Sowetan
  The Sowetan is an English language, South African newspaper that started in 1981 as a liberation struggle newspaper and was freely distributed to households in the black township of Soweto, Johannesburg, Gauteng Province....
  
  , grew up in Kimberley.
• Bernard Klisser, after whom the Kimberley suburb Klisserville is named.

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• George Labram
  George Labram
  George Labram was an American engineer employed as Chief Mechanical Engineer at the De Beers diamond mines in Kimberley during the Siege of Kimberley.-Early career:...
  
  , De Beers
  De Beers
  De Beers is a family of companies that dominate the diamond, diamond mining, diamond trading and industrial diamond manufacturing sectors. De Beers is active in every category of industrial diamond mining: open-pit, underground, large-scale alluvial, coastal and deep sea...
  
   Engineer who designed and built Long Cecil
  Long Cecil
  Long Cecil was a unique one-off gun, designed by George Labram, a United States citizen, and built in the workshops of the De Beers mining company in Kimberley for use by the British during the Siege of Kimberley in the Second Boer War....
  
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• Richard Liversidge
  Richard Liversidge
  Richard Liversidge, naturalist, ornithologist and museum director, was born on 17 September 1926 in Blantyre, Nyasaland , and died on 15 September 2003 in Kimberley, South Africa.-Early career:...
  
  , ornithologist and museum director.

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• Phakamile Mabija
  Phakamile Mabija
  Phakamile Mabija was an African anti-Apartheid activist, and member of the Anglican Nomads Educational Group, who was detained by the South African Police on 27 June 1977 for alleged involvement in an incident when African and Coloured commuters stoned public transport during a bus boycott in...
  
  , anti-apartheid activist.
• Adolph Malan
  Adolph Malan
  Adolph Gysbert Malan DSO & Bar DFC & Bar , better known as Sailor Malan, was a famed South African World War II RAF fighter pilot who led No. 74 Squadron RAF during the height of the Battle of Britain. Malan was known for sending German bomber pilots home with dead crews as a warning to other...
  
  
• Z.K. Matthews, President of the African National Congress, spent his youth in Kimberley.
• Sarah Gertrude Millin, author, spent her formative years, 1888–1912, in Kimberley and the nearby Waldeck's Plant.
• Karen Muir
  Karen Muir
  Karen Muir is a former competitive swimmer from South Africa. On August 10, 1965, aged 12 years, 10 months, and 25 days, she became the youngest person to break a sporting world record in any discipline when she swam the 110 yards backstroke in 1m 08.7s at the ASA National Junior...
  
  , Olympic medalist (swimming).

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• Olive Schreiner
  Olive Schreiner
  Olive Schreiner was a South African author, anti-war campaigner and intellectual. She is best remembered today for her novel The Story of an African Farm which has been highly acclaimed ever since its first publication in 1883 for the bold manner in which it dealt with some of the burning issues...
  
  , author, who lived in Kimberley 1894-1897.
• Robert Sobukwe
  Robert Sobukwe
  Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe was a South African political dissident, who founded the Pan Africanist Congress in opposition to the apartheid regime. In 2004 Sobukwe was voted 42nd in the SABC3's Great South Africans....
  
  , founder of the Pan Africanist Congress.
• Richard Southey (colonial administrator)
  Richard Southey (colonial administrator)
  Sir Richard Southey KCMG was a South African colonial administrator, cabinet minister and landowner.Southey was the son of 1820 Settlers leader George Southey of Culmstock, Devon, and later of Bloemhof Farm, Albany. He voyaged to South Africa with his family aboard the Kennersley Castle in 1820...
  
  
• Henrietta Stockdale
  Henrietta Stockdale
  Henrietta Stockdale was a nursing pioneer. Through her influence and pressure the first state registration of nurses and midwives in the world was brought about when the Cape of Good Hope Medical and Pharmacy Act of 1891 passed into law...
  
  

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• Freddie Tate
• William Timlin, artist and architect, responsible for many notable Kimberley buildings.