University of Cape Town Admitted Student Profiles & Alumni

Allan McLeod Cormack

Nobel Prize in Medicine (1979) for pioneering work on CAT scans

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Max Theiler

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1951) for yellow fever vaccine

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Aaron Klug

Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1982) for electron microscopy advances

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J. M. Coetzee

Nobel Prize in Literature (2003)

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Ralph Bunche

Nobel Peace Prize (1950) laureate and political scientist

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Christiaan Barnard

Performed the world’s first human-to-human heart transplant

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Mamphela Ramphele

Former Vice President of the World Bank and UCT Vice-Chancellor

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Naledi Pandor

South African Cabinet Minister

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Ebrahim Patel

South African Cabinet Minister

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Mark Shuttleworth

Entrepreneur, founder of Canonical (Ubuntu), space tourist

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Albie Sachs

Anti-apartheid activist and Constitutional Court judge

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Breyten Breytenbach

Writer and poet

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Zolani Mahola

Singer and frontwoman of the band Freshlyground

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Baleka Mbete

Former Speaker of the National Assembly

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Raymond Ackerman

Businessman and philanthropist, major figure in retail sector

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Roelof Botha

Venture capitalist and businessman

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Gail Kelly

CEO of Westpac and widely influential business leader

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Lauren Beukes

Best-selling author (The Shining Girls) and award winner

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Frances Ames

First woman to earn an MD from UCT and first female professor at the university

MD

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Rashid Domingo

Medical entrepreneur and founder of Biozyme Laboratories

MD, Chemistry

1959