List of University of the Witwatersrand people

This is a list of notable alumni and staff of the University of the Witwatersrand.

Arts

Architecture and design

Business and entrepreneurship
  • Adam Levy, property developer
  • Adrian Gore, CEO of Discovery Holdings Ltd; Chairman of Destiny Health Inc. in the USA and Prudential Health Limited in the UK
  • Bridget van Kralingen, Senior Vice President, IBM Global Business Services
  • Charles Chinedu Okeahalam, economist and businessman, CEO of AGH Capital Group; former Liberty Life Professor of Financial Economics and Banking, University of the Witwatersrand
  • Derek Keys (born 1931), finance minister of South Africa, 1992-1994, in the cabinets of F W de Klerk and Nelson Mandela
  • Donald Gordon, founder of life insurance company Liberty Life in 1958 with R100,000 when he was 27 years old; awarded a knighthood in 2005
  • Elizabeth Bradley, Non-Executive Chairman of Toyota SA Limited; former Executive Director of AngloGold
  • Gail Kelly (born Gail Currer), Australian and South African businessperson; first woman CEO of a major Australian bank or top 15 company (2002)
  • Gary Barber, Chairman and CEO of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Bachelor of Commerce; certificate in the Theory of Accountancy
  • Gordon Schachat, co-founder of African Bank Limited and prominent art collector
  • Graham Mackay, former Chairman and Ex-CEO of SABMiller plc, the world's second largest beer brewer
  • Ivan Glasenberg, CEO of Glencore, one of the world's largest commodity trading companies; on the boards of mining companies Xstrata plc and Minara Resources Ltd
  • Koos Bekker, former CEO of Naspers
  • Lael Bethlehem, former CEO of the Johannesburg Development Agency; Investment Executive at Hosken Consolidated Investments
  • Ludwig Lachmann, economist and important contributor to the Austrian School
  • Maria Ramos, economist and businesswoman; CEO of ABSA Group since 2009; former CEO of Transnet
  • Martin Morgan, Chief Executive Officer and Director of DMGT
  • Meyer Feldberg, Senior Advisor to Morgan Stanley
  • Nathan Kirsh, South African-born Swazi business magnate, with a property empire spanning the UK, Swaziland and Australia; has Swazi citizenship; has residency status in the UK and the USA
  • Nthato Motlana, giant of South African business and the anti-apartheid struggle; one of the accused, with Mandela and 18 others, in the 1952 Defiance Campaign Trial
  • Patrice Motsepe, South African mining magnate; according to Forbes magazine, worth more than R17-billion after adding a further R7-billion to his net worth in 2009
  • Patrick Soon-Shiong, South African-American surgeon; founder, chairman, and CEO of Abraxis BioScience
  • Rodney Sacks, chairman, and CEO of Monster Beverage
  • Ronnie Apteker, founder of Internet Solutions, one of South Africa's largest internet service providers
  • Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, diamond and gold mining entrepreneur; financier; philanthropist; controlled De Beers; founded the Anglo American Corporation of South Africa
  • Sir Mark Weinberg, South African-born British financier; founder of Abbey Life Assurance Company
  • Sir Winfried Franz Wilhem Bischoff, Anglo-German banker; chairman of Lloyds Banking Group plc; former chairman and former interim CEO of Citigroup; knighted in 2000
  • Sol Kerzner, hotel and gambling magnate; created the most successful hotel group in South Africa, Sun International; Chairman of the Board of Kerzner International, based in the Bahamas
  • Tony Trahar, former chairman of Anglo American; educated at St John's College and the University of the Witwatersrand

Education

Engineering

Historians
  • C. I. Hamilton, British naval historian
  • Cornelis de Kiewiet
  • Bruce Murray
  • Charles van Onselen
  • Charles Hilliard Feinstein (18 March 1932 – 27 November 2004) was a noted South African and British economic historian. He was born in Johannesburg, received his early education at Parktown Boys' High School and studied at Witwatersrand University and Cambridge University where he completed his doctorate.
4 May 2009: Dr Beric Croome was keynote speaker for the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) graduation ceremony for the students of the Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management. Photograph shows from left to right: Acting Vice-Chancellor, Professor Y Ballim; Dr Beric Croome; Professor David Kolitz, President of the Convocation of the University of the Witwatersrand.

Medicine
  • Dr Selig Percy Amoils, Inventor of the Cryoprobe, recipient of the silver Order of Mapungubwe in 2006
  • Dr John Brereton Barlow - Barlow's syndrome
  • Dr Julien Hoffman, paediatric cardiologist; cardiac physiologist; expert in the epidemiology of congenital cardiovascular malformations
  • Dr Mary Malahlela, first black woman doctor in South Africa
  • Dr Nthatho Harrison Motlana, activist, academic, businessman, Mandela family physician
  • Dr Saul Levin, U.S.-based psychiatrist
  • Dr Alan Menter (MBBCh, 1966, Wits), dermatologist; expert on psoriasis; Chairman of the Division of Dermatology; Director of the Dermatology Residency program for Baylor University Medical Center; Clinical Professor of Dermatology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
  • Dr Basil Hirschowitz, inventor of the first fiberoptic endoscope
  • Dr George Cohen, radiologist; established Harry's Angels, the world's largest international flying medical specialist service, which performed over 5.500 operations by the end of 1977, and examined and treated more than 40.000 non-operative cases
  • Dr Catherine Nyongesa, radiation oncologist
  • Jonathan Lewis, surgical oncologist; biomedical researcher; developer of cancer drugs [5]
  • Julien Hoffman, cardiologist, , professor at UCSF
  • Lars Georg Svensson, cardiac surgeon
  • Dr Jack Penn, known for his innovative techniques in plastic surgery, notably the Brenthurst splint
  • Dr Priscilla Kincaid-Smith, "the mother of nephrology", appointed Commander of The Order of the British Empire (Civil) in 1975, for services to medicine; appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia; first woman to become President of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (1986–1988); won Australian Achiever Award in 1997 for a lifetime's work in renal health
  • Dr William Harding le Riche, epidemiologist; established the first non-segregated health centre in Knysna
  • Prof Glenda Gray, President of the South African Medical Research Council, pediatrician
  • Prof Phillip Tobias, palaeoanthropologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg; known for his work at South Africa's hominid fossil sites; anti-apartheid activist
  • Prof Sydney Brenner, biologist; 2002 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, shared with H. Robert Horvitz and John Sulston
  • Professor Raymond Dart, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, 1925-1943, the longest term of service in that capacity; announced the discovery of the Taung skull, the first of Africa's early hominids, and named the species Australopithecus Africanus
  • Sir Terence English, cardiac surgeon
  • Dr Shereen Usdin, public health specialist
  • Professor James Ware, surgeon
  • Dr Sylvia Weir, pioneered the use of robotics in autism therapy
  • Dr Shivesh Maharaj, otorhinolaryngologist, Lead researcher in the field of Deep neck space infections

Politics and public service

Science and technology
Sir Aaron Klug, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1982
  • Lucinda Backwell, paleoanthropologist
  • Aaron Klug, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1982
  • Audrey Richards, social anthropologist
  • Dr Botha de Meillon (BSc 1925; BSc Hons 1926; MSc 1927; Honorary Doctorate in Science 1932; Honorary Doctorate in Medicine 1975) was a founding member of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa and was awarded life membership in 1986. Born Schalk Jacobus Botha de Meillon on 15 October 1902 in Prieska, northern Cape Province, this pioneering South African scientist passed away peacefully in the U.S.A. on 6 December 2000 at age 98. [6] [7]
  • Danie G. Krige, mining engineer who pioneered the field of geostatistics
  • David Forsyth, computer vision researcher at University of Illinois at Urbana champaign
  • David King, scientist
  • John Edmund Kerrich, first head of the Statistics department. Famous for experiments in probability performed while interned (in Denmark) during the second world war.
  • David Lewis-Williams, Professor emeritus of Cognitive Archaeology at the University of the Witwatersrand; specialist in Upper-Palaeolithic and Bushmen rock art; founder of the Rock Art Research Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand
  • David Pettifor, physicist
  • Doris Kuhlmann-Wilsdorf, known for her work in materials science
  • Dr Bernie Fanaroff, physicist and Project Director at South African Square Kilometre Array Project
  • Frank Nabarro, solid state physicist, DVC
  • Friedel Sellschop, physicist [8]
  • H. J. De Blij, geographer, professor, television personality, analyst [9]
  • Herbert Sichel, statistician
  • Himla Soodyall, geneticist
  • James Kitching, Karooo paleontologist
  • Jan C. A. Boeyens, chemist
  • John Burland, Emeritus Professor and Senior Research Investigator at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Imperial College London; Professor of Geotechnical Engineering at the Imperial College, London; led the international consulting team that stabilized the leaning tower of Pisa; one of the few engineers to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Society
  • Kim Man Lui, software engineer
  • Lee Berger, paleoanthropologist, winner of the first National Geographic Prize for Research and Exploration
  • Lewis Wolpert, graduated in Civil Engineering; studied biology at Imperial College; Professor of Biology Applied to Medicine at University College, London; Fellow of the Royal Society; popular science lecturer and writer
  • Marlene Behrmann, cognitive neuroscientist specializing in visual perception, specifically object recognition; professor at Carnegie Mellon University
  • Max Gluckman, anthropologist
  • Peter Sarnak, mathematician, head of School of Mathematics at Princeton, Honorary degree recipient in 2014 (DSc)
  • Phillip Tobias, paleoanthropologist and anatomist
  • Raymond Dart, anatomist and anthropologist; discoverer of the Taung Child
  • Ron Clarke, paleoanthropologist
  • Beric Skews scientist, faculty member
  • Selig Percy Amoils, ophthalmologist and biomedical engineering inventor
  • Seymour Papert, artificial intelligence pioneer and inventor of the Logo programming language
  • Sir Basil Schonland, Honorary Doctor of Science (1957); founding director of the Bernard Price Institute of Geophysics at the University of the Witwatersrand; made significant contributions to the study of atmospheric electricity, photographing lightning and investigating the electric fields generated by thunderclouds
  • Tingye Li; pioneer in lasers and optical communication
  • Wanda Orlikowski, information systems scholar

Sports

Miscellaneous

See also

References
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  2. "Jochen Runde". Cambridge Judge Business School.
  3. "Distinguished graduates". School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of the Witwatersrand. Retrieved 9 July 2018.
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 24 June 2013. Retrieved 25 June 2013.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. "Jonathan Lewis, MD, PhD". WebMD.
  6. Oxford Academic Journals, Entomologist Extraordinary. A Festschrift in Honour of Botha de Meillon., retrieved 13 March 2020
  7. Taylor & Francis Online, Eulogies: Dr Botha de Meillon, retrieved 13 March 2020
  8. "Memorial, Friedel Sellschop". www.src.wits.ac.za.
  9. "de_Blij_Harm | AAG". www.aag.org.
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