Editing List of South Africans (section)

===Scientists===
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*[[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)