Famous People with Name Johannes

Johannes Jacobus Kotze            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Johannes Jacobus Kotze: was an South African cricketer who played in 3 Tests from 1902 to 1907.

Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom: was Prime Minister of South Africa from 30 November 1954 to 24 August 1958. He was an uncompromising Afrikaner nationalist and was vigorous in extending the apartheid program of racial segregation initiated by his immediate predecessor, Daniel Malan.[1]On

Johannes Kerkorrel            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Johannes Kerkorrel: was an Afrikaner singer-songwriter, journalist and playwright from South Africa.In 1989, they released the album Eet Kreef ("Eat Crayfish") on the now-defunct Shifty Records label, which was a commercial success despite its tracks being banned from radio airplay by the South African Broadcasting Corporation, which was the government mouthpiece. The subsequent regional tour of college campuses and art festivals was called "Voëlvry" (literally free as a bird but here meaning outlawed), and Rabie's controversial reinvention of Afrikaans popular music became known as the "Voëlvry movement".

Johannes Petrus Roux            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Johannes Petrus Roux: was a South African rugby player, who played for the South Africa national rugby union team. He played as a scrum-half (1,80 m and 80 kg).

Johannes Jacobus Strydom            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Johannes Jacobus Strydom: is a former South African rugby union player who played for the South Africa national rugby union team between 1993 and 1997.

Westphal, Ernst Oswald Johannes            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Westphal, Ernst Oswald Johannes: was a South African linguist and an expert in Bantu and Khoisan languages. Ernst Westphal was born at Khalava in Vendaland, the son of German Lutheran missionary parents. Already as a child he was fluent in German, English, Afrikaans and Venda. He studied Zulu and Southern Sotho under Clement Martyn Doke at the University of the Witwatersrand and, after graduating in 1942, was a Lecturer there 1942-1947. He was Lecturer in Bantu Languages at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London 1949-1962, and Professor of African Languages in the School of African studies at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, from 1962 until his retirement in 1984.

Robyn Johannes            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Robyn Johannes: is a South African football (soccer) defender for Premier Soccer League club Mamelodi Sundowns and South Africa.