Famous People with Name John

John Yuill            Origin/Culture/Country: African

John Yuill: is a former professional tennis player from South Africa. He enjoyed most of his tennis success while playing doubles. During his career he won 2 doubles titles.

John Van Melle            Origin/Culture/Country: African

John Van Melle: was the pen name of a Dutch-born South African author. His real name was Johannes van Melle.Van Melle arrived in South Africa in 1906, and after a short sojourn in the Netherlands East Indies, settled in South Africa permanently in 1913. He worked as a teacher in many rural schools and soon started to publish in both Dutch and the newly emerging Afrikaans language.

John Tengo Jabavu            Origin/Culture/Country: African

John Tengo Jabavu: was a political activist and the editor of South Africa's first newspaper to be written in Xhosa.In 1876, Jabavu took over editorship of the Isigidimi Sama Xosa ("The Xhosa Messenger"), and by the early 1880s had become an important political force. Jabavu's writings tended to focus on the threat of growing Afrikaner nationalism and his demands for equal rights for South Africa's black population. Tengo Jabavu was also known as a proponent of women's rights as well as public education.

John Langalibalele Dube            Origin/Culture/Country: African

John Langalibalele Dube: was a South African essayist, philosopher, educator, politician, publisher, editor, novelist and poet. He was the founding president of the South African Native National Congress which became the African National Congress[1] in 1923. Dube served as SANNC president between 1912 and 1917.Dube was born of royal lineage and was by right a chief of the Qadi tribe. Because of Dube's father's conversion to Christianity by early missionaries in pre-republic South Africa, he did not rule over his Qadi people. Dube's name was actually Ngcobo, who have the chieftancy of the Qadi people of the Zulu.

John Steenhuisen            Origin/Culture/Country: African

John Steenhuisen: is a South African politician, and the Leader of the Opposition[1] in the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature, on behalf of the Democratic Alliance (DA) and its leader, Helen Zille. He is also the leader of the DA in KwaZulu-Natal.John was elected to the then Durban City Council in 1999 at the age of 22, making him one of the youngest councillors in the history of the City. In 2006 John was elected the caucus leader of the official opposition, the Democratic Alliance, on the eThekwini council and served on the City’s Executive Committee.