The Most Famous
REFEREES from South Africa
This page contains a list of the greatest South African Referees. The pantheon dataset contains 107 Referees, 1 of which were born in South Africa. This makes South Africa the birth place of the 49th most number of Referees behind Israel and Ukraine.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary South African Referees of all time. This list of famous South African Referees is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Jerome Damon (1972 - )
With an HPI of 34.47, Jerome Damon is the most famous South African Referee. His biography has been translated into 24 different languages on wikipedia.
Jerome Kelvyn Damon (born 4 April 1972) is a retired South African football referee. He was voted PSL Referee of the Season in 2004–05 and 2008–09. An international referee since 2000, Damon was on stand-by for the 2006 FIFA World Cup, and was a referee at the 2004, 2006, 2008 and 2010 Africa Cup of Nations. He was preselected as a referee for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as referees born between 1972 and 1972. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living referees include Jerome Damon.
