Wikipedia lists 27 Notable Port Elizabeth persons – yup that is it – 27. For goodness sake people that is less than the 52 names that appear in the 27 Club!
Help us out here and fill in your suggestions below of who is missing from the Notable Port Elizabeth persons list:
As at 2 January 2016 Wikipedia listed these notable Port Elizabeth Persons:
- Johan Botha – cricketer
- Schalk Burger – rugby union player, 2004 IRB International Player of the Year
- Adrienne Camp – singer/songwriter
- Thinus Delport – rugby union player
- Gabriella Demetriades – model
- Athol Fugard – Playwright, novelist
- Danie Gerber – rugby union player
- Rodney Howard-Browne – Charismatic Christian evangelist in the US
- Danny Jordaan – 2010 FIFA world cup organising committee boss
- Len Killeen – rugby union player
- Zolani Mahola – actress and singer/songwriter with the band Freshlyground
- Shashi Naidoo – actress and TV anchor
- Zim Ngqawana – jazz musician
- Wayne Parnell – cricketer
- Alviro Petersen – cricketer
- Robin Peterson – cricketer
- Shawn Phillips – singer/songwriter
- Graeme Pollock – cricketer
- Peter Pollock – cricketer
- Shaun Pollock – cricketer
- Ashwell Prince – cricketer
- Patrick Soon-Shiong – billionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist; part-owner of the LA Lakers; graduate of PE’s Chinese High School
- Mzwandile Stick – rugby union player; former captain of the national sevens team
- Reeva Steenkamp – model
- Joe van Niekerk – rugby union player
- Siya Kolisi – Springbok Rugby Union Player
- Nikki Williams – singer/songwriter
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