Editing List of South Africans (section)

==Academics==
[[File:Hofmeyr.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr (1894-1948)|Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr]]]]

===Academics===
{{See also|List of South African university chancellors and vice-chancellors|l1=Chancellors and vice-chancellors}}
*[[Shulamith Behr]], art historian (1946–2023)
*[[Estian Calitz]], academic (born 1949)
*[[Jakes Gerwel]], academic and anti-apartheid activist (1946–2012)
*[[Adam Habib]], political scientist (born 1965)
*[[Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr (1894–1948)|Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr]], academic and politician (1894–1948)
*[[Thamsanqa Kambule]], South African Mathematician and Educator (1921–2009)
*[[Tshilidzi Marwala]], academic and businessman (born 1971)
*[[Revil Mason]], archeologist (1929–2020) 
*[[Shula Marks]], historian (born 1938) 
*[[Njabulo Ndebele]], Principal of the University of Cape Town (born 1948)
*[[D. C. S. Oosthuizen]], philosopher (1926–1968)
*[[Adriaan Nicolaas Petrus Pelzer|Adriaan N. P. Pelzer]], historian and Vice-Principal University Pretoria (1915–1981)
*[[Michiel Daniel Overbeek]], South African [[amateur astronomy|amateur astronomer]] and prolific [[variable star]] [[observational astronomy|observers]] (1920–2001)
*[[Pierre de Villiers Pienaar]], pioneering role in speech language therapy and lexicography in South Africa (1904–1978)
*[[Calie Pistorius]], academic and Principal of the University of Pretoria (born 1958)
*[[Milton Shain]], academic and professor of Modern Jewish history at the University of Cape Town (born 1949)
*[[Benedict Wallet Vilakazi]], author, educator, and first [[black people|black]] South African to receive a PhD (1906–1947)<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/people/bios/vilakazi-bw.htm|title=Dr. Benedict Wallet Vilakazi|last=Anonymous|date=17 February 2011|work=South African History Online|access-date=14 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091220011814/http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/people/bios/vilakazi-bw.htm|archive-date=20 December 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*[[David Webster (anthropologist)|David Webster]], anthropologist (1945–1989)

===Medical and veterinary===
{{See also|:Category:South African surgeons|l1=South African surgeons}}
*[[Abraham Manie Adelstein]], UK Chief Medical Statistician (1916–1992)
*[[Christiaan Barnard]], pioneering heart surgeon (1922–2001)
*[[Wouter Basson]], medical scientist (born 1950)
*[[John Borthwick (veterinary surgeon)|John Borthwick]], veterinary surgeon in the [[Cape Colony]] (1867–1936)
*[[Mary Malahlela]], first black woman to register as a medical doctor in South Africa (1916–1981)
*[[Joan Morice]], first female veterinary surgeon in South Africa (1904–1944)
*[[Anna Coutsoudis]], public health scientist (born 1952)
*[[Patrick Soon-Shiong]], surgeon, founder Abraxis BioScience, billionaire (born 1952)
*[[Arnold Theiler]], veterinarian (1867–1936)
*[[Max Theiler]], virologist, 1951 [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] winner (1899–1972)
*[[Lindiwe Sidali]], surgeon (born 1984)

===Scientists===
{{See also|:Category:South African scientists|l1=South African scientists}}
*[[Andrew Geddes Bain]], geologist (1797–1864)
*[[Peter Beighton]], geneticist (1934–2023)
*[[Wilhelm Bleek]], linguist (1827–1875)
*[[Robert Broom]], palaeontologist (1866–1951)
*[[Sydney Brenner]], biologist, 2002 Physiology or Medicine Nobel Prize winner (1927–2019)
*[[Phillip Clancey]], ornithologist (1918–2001)
*[[Allan McLeod Cormack]], physicist (1924–1998)
*[[Zodwa Dlamini (biochemist)|Zodwa Dlamini]], biochemist 
*[[Clement Martyn Doke]], linguist (1893–1980)
*[[Mulalo Doyoyo]], professor and inventor (born 1970)
*[[Alexander du Toit]], geologist (1878–1948)
*[[Robert Allen Dyer]], botanist (1900–1987)
*[[Melville Edelstein]], sociologist, killed due to [[Soweto uprising]] (1919–1976) 
*[[Wendy Foden]], conservation biologist
*[[J. W. B. Gunning]], zoologist (1860–1913)
*[[Quarraisha Abdool Karim]], Associate Scientific Director of the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa ([[CAPRISA]]) (born 1960)
*[[Salim Abdool Karim]], {{post-nominals|country=ZAR|FRSSAf|FRS}}<ref name="MgCoZA201907">{{Cite web |url=https://mg.co.za/article/2019-07-19-00-sa-professor-enters-ranks-of-royal-elite |title=SA professor enters ranks of Royal elite |date=19 July 2019 |website=Mail & Guardian Online |access-date=22 July 2019}}</ref> South African [[Epidemiology|epidemiologist]] and [[Infectious disease (medical specialty)|infectious diseases specialist]] (born 1960)
*[[David Lewis-Williams]], archaeologist (born 1934)
*[[Lucy Lloyd]], anthropologist (1834–1914)
*[[Thebe Medupe]], astrophysicist (born 1973)
*[[Hans Merensky]], geologist (1871–1952)
*[[Austin Roberts (zoologist)|Austin Roberts]], zoologist (1883–1948)
*[[Peter Sarnak]], mathematician (born 1953)
*[[Ramotholo Sefako]], astrophysicist (born 1971)
*[[Buyisiwe Sondezi]], physicist (born 1976)
*[[Basil Schonland]], physicist (1896–1972)
*[[J. L. B. Smith]], ichthyologist (1897–1968)
*[[Phillip V. Tobias|Phillip Tobias]], palaeontologist (1925–2012)

===Theologians===
Also see: [[#Prelates, clerics and evangelists|Prelates, clerics and evangelists]]

*[[David Bosch]] (1929–1992)
*[[John W. de Gruchy]] (born 1939)
*[[Dion Forster]] (born 1972)
*[[Johan Heyns]] (1928–1994)