Prominent Alumni
- Xenophon Constantine Balaskas, Springbok cricketer, 1930-1939.
- Benjamin Bennett (1904-1985), well-known South African crime writer.
- Dr Rudolph Bigalke (Matric, Dux Medallist, 1914), third director of the National Zoological Gardens of South Africa (Pretoria), 1927 to 1962.
- Rudolph Carl Bigalke, zoologist and one-time director of the McGregor Museum
- Frederick Dobbin, South African international rugby union player
- William Benbow Humphreys (1889-1965), politician, founder of and principal benefactor behind Kimberley's William Humphreys Art Gallery, and recipient of the Freedom of the City of Kimberley.
- Dan Jacobson, author.
- Dr Donald Ross (Matric 1939), pioneer of British cardiac surgery. See Ross procedure.
- Professor Velva Schrire (Matric 1933), Head of the Groote Schuur Hospital Cardiac Clinic at the time that Dr Chris Barnard performed the world's first human heart transplant operation.
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