Authors, Academics, Writers, Poets, and Journalists
- Jani Allan (born 1953), journalist
- Lauren Beukes (born 1976), writer and journalist
- William Boyd, writer
- Cathy Buckle, author of African Tears
- Guy Butler, poet
- (Ignatius) Roy(ston) Dunnachie Campbell (1901–1957), poet
- Bryce Courtenay, South-African born author
- Robert Broom, doctor and paleontologist
- Richard Dawkins (born March 26, 1941), biologist, author of The God Delusion
- John Edmond, singer, songwriter, entertainer and storyteller
- Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, transport rider, classic writer
- Bruce Fordyce, ultra-marathon runner
- (Harold) Athol (Lannigan) Fugard, writer, actor
- Lisa Fugard, writer, actor
- Alexandra Fuller (born 1969), author of Rhodesian memoir Don't Lets Go to the Dogs Tonight
- Jack Cope (born 1913) Author.
- Peter Godwin (writer), Rhodesian soldier, journalist
- Nadine Gordimer (born 1923), novelist and writer, Nobel Prize in Literature 1991
- Richard E. Grant (born 1957), actor
- William Hamilton (1891–1917), poet, educated at the South African College (now University of Cape Town), where he subsequently taught English and Philosophy
- Glynn Isaac, palaeoanthropologist
- Louis Leakey, palaeoanthropologist
- Richard Leakey (born 1944), palaeoanthropologist and conservationist
- Doris Lessing (born 1919), author
- David Lewis-Williams (born 1934), archaeologist
- Major Alan Paton (1903–1988), author
- David Rattray (1958–2007), historian
- Sir Anthony Sher, actor and novelist
- Wilbur Smith (born January 9, 1933), novelist
- Allister Sparks, investigative journalist, former Rand Daily Mail editor, Nieman Fellow and political commentator.
- Edward Stourton, journalist
- Phillip Tobias, anthropologist
- J. R. R. Tolkien South Africa-born author
- Barbara Trapido, born Barbara Louise Schuddeboom in 1941 in Cape Town, novelist
- Joseph Wolpe (1915–1997), psychiatrist, born in Johannesburg and later moved to the USA
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