List of alumni of the University of Cape Town

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This list of the notable alumni of the University of Cape Town is divided into the six faculties of the university: Commerce, Humanities, Sciences, Health Sciences, Engineering, and Law.

Commerce[]

Humanities[]


Music[]

  • Richard Cock, conductor
  • Cromwell Everson, classical music composer and composer of the first Afrikaans opera
  • Ernest Fleischmann, impresario best known for his tenure at the Los Angeles Philharmonic[2]
  • Malcolm Forsyth, musician; composer; Canadian Composer of the Year; Juno Award winner; member of Order of Canada
  • Hendrik Hofmeyr, composer and music theorist; winner of the 1997 Queen Elisabeth of Belgium Composition Prize; Professor of Music at the South African College of Music, University of Cape Town
  • Galt MacDermot, composer of the musical Hair
  • Melanie Scholtz, vocalist, operas, jazz, pop, r&b, and classical music. Graduated from the School of Opera
  • Barry Smith, organist, conductor, musicologist, former Associate Professor of Music at the South African College of Music, University of Cape Town
  • Désirée Talbot, operatic soprano and one of the founding members of the UCT Opera Company
  • Pretty Yende, operatic soprano.

Fine art[]

Drama[]

Sciences[]

  • Professor Allan McLeod Cormack, Medicine, 1979
  • Hilary Deacon, Professor of Archaeology at the University of Stellenbosch specialising in the emergence of modern humans and African archaeology
  • Emanuel Derman, Goldman Sachs financial engineer and author of My Life As A Quant
  • Jonathan M. Dorfan, director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
  • Professor Mulalo Doyoyo, South African engineer and inventor; known for inventing cenocell, a cementless concrete
  • George Ellis, cosmologist; collaborator with Stephen Hawking; winner of the 2004 Templeton Prize
  • Michael David Kirchmann, architect and developer, founder of GDSNY
  • Sir Aaron Klug, Chemistry, 1982
  • Paul Maritz, former Microsoft executive; VMware CEO
  • Magdalena Sauer, first woman to qualify as an architect in South Africa
  • Sydney Harold Skaife, South African entomologist and naturalist
  • Stanley Skewes, number theorist most famous in popular mathematics for his bound for the point of changeover in magnitude between the number of primes up to a certain number and an important approximation of this, which was for many years the largest finite number ever legitimately used in a research paper
  • Edith Layard Stephens, South African botanist
  • Willem Van Biljon, former co-founder of Mosaic Software, acquired by S1 Corporation ; founder of Nimbula, a startup funded by Sequoia Capital
  • Richard van der Riet Woolley, British astronomer who became Astronomer Royal

Health sciences[]

Social sciences[]

Law and government[]

  • Ebrahim Patel, held positions as South African Minister of Trade and Industry and as the Minister of Economic Development, on the University Council of UCT and was former staffer in the Southern African Labour and Development Research Unit in the School of Economics.
  • Sheila Camerer, South African politician; former Deputy Minister of Justice; long-serving Member of Parliament of the main opposition the Democratic Alliance; ambassador to Bulgaria; completed a Bachelor of Law degree at UCT in 1964
  • Ryan Coetzee, South African politician; former CEO of the Democratic Alliance and Shadow Minister of Economic Development; chief strategist for Western Cape premier Helen Zille; graduated from UCT in 1994
  • Beric John Croome, Advocate of the High Court of South Africa; Chartered Accountant CA (SA); taxpayers' rights pioneer; completed a Bachelor of Commerce degree (1980), Certificate in the Theory of Accountancy (1981) and a PhD (Commercial Law) (2008) at UCT[6]
  • Stephen Jolly, Australian activist and politician.
  • Zainunnisa "Cissie" Gool, anti-apartheid political and civil rights leader
  • Ian Neilson, Executive Deputy Mayor of Cape Town
  • Kate O'Regan, former Constitutional Court of South Africa judge
  • Dullah Omar, South African anti-apartheid activist; lawyer; Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa; minister in the South African cabinet from 1994 until his death
  • Justice Albie Sachs, of the Constitutional Court of South Africa
  • James Selfe, long-serving Member of Parliament with the Democratic Alliance; chairperson of the party's federal council; holds a master's degree from UCT
  • Lady Kitty Spencer, daughter of the 9th Earl of Spencer and niece of Diana, Princess of Wales
  • Donald Woods, South African journalist and anti-apartheid activist
  • Percy Yutar, South Africa's first Jewish attorney-general and prosecutor of Nelson Mandela in the 1963 Rivonia Treason Trial.
  • Zuleikha Hassan, Kenyan Politician - Kwale County Woman Representative and Member of Parliament
  • Fana Mokoena, South Afican politician and actor, member of the National Assembly of South Africa and a delegate to the National Council of Provinces


References[]

  1. ^ Makgoba, Thabo (2009). African workplace spirituality in South African mines (Ph.D.). University of the Cape Town. hdl:11427/8960.
  2. ^ Luther, Claudia. "Ernest Fleischmann dies at 85; manager who guided Los Angeles Philharmonic's transformation", Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2010. Accessed 20 June 2010.
  3. ^ The Independent
  4. ^ FOX, Margalit (8 February 2013). "John E. Karlin, Who Led the Way to All-Digit Dialing, Dies at 94". New York Times. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
  5. ^ "Debora Patta resigns as e.tv head of news." IOL. 1 October 2009. Retrieved on 30 October 2012.
  6. ^ "DigiTool – Results – Full". Srvrhldig001.uct.ac.za. Archived from the original on 21 April 2013.
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