Famous Persons
- Henry Vollam Morton - journalist and travel writer
- Selborne Boome - Rugby union player
- Ramsay Carelse - High jumper
- Chris McGregor - Jazz pianist, bandleader and composer
- Ernest "Eddie" Peirce - Boxer.
- Trevor Immelman - is a professional golfer and winner of the 2008 Masters Tournament.
- Heinz-Georg Wilhelm Migeod - was a German stuka pilot of WW2, author of four books and historian. He lived in South Africa since 1973 and died in Somerset West 2010.
- Bob Walsh - Anne Walsh - Helen Dooley - Former members of the British pop band "The Dooleys", credited with ten top 40 hits in the 70's, now members of local band "Shiraz"
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Famous quotes containing the words famous and/or persons:
“When I was bound apprentice, in famous Lincolnshire,
Full well I served my master for more than seven year,
Till I took up poaching, as you shall quickly hear:
Oh, ‘tis my delight on a shining night, in the season of the year.”
—Unknown. The Lincolnshire Poacher (l. 1–4)
“Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)