The Most Famous
JOURNALISTS from South Africa
This page contains a list of the greatest South African Journalists. The pantheon dataset contains 127 Journalists, 1 of which were born in South Africa. This makes South Africa the birth place of the 23rd most number of Journalists behind Romania and Lithuania.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary South African Journalists of all time. This list of famous South African Journalists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Kevin Carter (1960 - 1994)
With an HPI of 56.69, Kevin Carter is the most famous South African Journalist. His biography has been translated into 44 different languages on wikipedia.
Kevin Carter (13 September 1960 – 27 July 1994) was a South African photojournalist and member of the Bang-Bang Club. He was the recipient in 1994 of a Pulitzer Prize for his photograph depicting the 1993 famine in Sudan. He died by suicide at the age of 33. His story is depicted in the book The Bang-Bang Club, written by Greg Marinovich and João Silva and published in 2000.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as journalists born between 1960 and 1960. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased journalists include Kevin Carter.
