Notable Residents
- Renowned writer Sarah Gertrude Millin grew up at Longlands outside Barkly West and her father opened the first shop in town.
- Cecil Rhodes held the seat of Barkly West in the House of Assembly of Cape Colony until his death in 1902.
- Z.K. Matthews (1901 - May 1968), prominent black academic who became a president of the African National Congress and assisted in the drafting of the Freedom Charter, was born at Winters Rush outside Barkly West. The new hospital is named after Professor Z.K. Matthews.
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