Famous People with Name John

John Cameron Robbie            Origin/Culture/Country: African

John Cameron Robbie: is a former Ireland international rugby union player. He went to The High School in Dublin, Ireland.[2] He toured South Africa in 1980 with the British and Irish Lions and at the time played club rugby for Greystones RFC. He was later picked twice for the South African rugby team but never received a cap, at the time he was playing for Transvaal. He also was a member of the Leinster Schools Cup winning side in The High School Dublin in 1973. He is now a well known radio presenter in South Africa on Talk Radio 702.

John Bheki Nkambule            Origin/Culture/Country: African

John Bheki Nkambule: is a South African professional footballer who plays as a midfielder.Nkambule has played in the Premier Soccer League for Supersport United and Jomo Cosmos.

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.