24 South African knights

Sir Murray Bisset was a Test cricketer who captained South Africa before moving to Southern Rhodesia where he served as Chief Justice of Southern Rhodesia and briefly as Governor of Southern Rhodesia.

Johannes Brand

Sir Johannes Henricus Brand, was a South African lawyer and politician who served as the fourth state president of the Orange Free State, from 2 February 1864 until his death in 1888. He was the son of Sir Christoffel Joseph Brand (1797–1875), speaker of the Cape legislative assembly, and Catharina Fredrica Küchler. Johannes Brand married in 1851 to Johanna Sibella Zastron, a daughter of the Registrar of Deeds in Cape Town. The couple had 8 sons and 3 daughters.

Quintin Brand

Air Vice-Marshal Sir Christopher Joseph Quintin Brand, was a South African officer of the Royal Air Force.

Sir Patrick Duncan,, PC was the sixth Governor-General of the Union of South Africa, holding office from 1937 to 1943.

Sir Terence Alexander Hawthorne English is a South African-born British retired cardiac surgeon. He was Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Papworth Hospital and Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, 1973–1995. After starting a career in mining engineering, English switched to medicine and went on to lead the team that performed Britain's first successful heart transplant in August 1979 at Papworth, and soon established it as one of Europe's leading heart–lung transplant programmes.

Sir Ernest Lucas Guest was a Rhodesian politician, lawyer and soldier. He held senior ministerial positions in the government, most notably as Minister for Air during the Second World War.

Major-General Sir Edmund Hakewill-Smith KCVO CB CBE MC was a senior British Army officer who served in both World War I and World War II.

Sir Raymond Hoffenberg KBE was an endocrinologist who specialised in the study of the thyroid. Born in South Africa, he was forced to leave in 1968, and settled in the United Kingdom, where he was President of the Royal College of Physicians from 1983 to 1989, and President of Wolfson College, Oxford from 1985 to 1993.

Sir Frederick Spencer Lister was an English-born South African doctor and bacteriologist.

Major General Sir Henry Timson Lukin was a South African military commander. He fought in the Anglo-Zulu War (1879) and the Basutoland Gun War (1880–1881), the Bechuanaland Campaign (1897), and the Anglo-Boer War when he was in command of the artillery during the defence of Wepener for which action he was awarded a Distinguished Service Order. From 1900 to 1901 he commanded the Cape Mounted Riflemen, from 1904 to 1912 he was Commandant-General of the Cape Colonial Forces and in 1912 Inspector-General of the Permanent Force of the Union of South Africa.

Sir James Molteno, was an influential barrister and parliamentarian of South Africa.

Sir Allan George Mossop was a British judge of South African origin who served in China. He was the Chief Judge of the British Supreme Court for China from 1933 to 1943.

Sir Ernest Oppenheimer was a diamond and gold mining entrepreneur, financier and philanthropist, who controlled De Beers and founded the Anglo American Corporation of South Africa.

Sir Thomas Charles Scanlen was a politician and administrator of the Cape Colony.

Sir William Thomas Smartt was a South African politician, and founder and leader of the Unionist Party.

Sir Edward Phillip Solomon was a successful lawyer and politician of the Transvaal Colony and the Union of South Africa.

Sir Richard Solomon, was a South African attorney and legislator. He was a member of Parliament and the Attorney General of the Cape Colony and Attorney General, Lieutenant-Governor, and Agent-General of the Transvaal Colony. After serving as Agent-General of the Transvaal from 1907 to the creation of the Union of South Africa in 1910, Solomon was the first High Commissioner of South Africa to the United Kingdom to his death in 1913.

Sir Andries Stockenström, 1st Baronet, was lieutenant governor of British Kaffraria from 13 September 1836 to 9 August 1838.

Sir William Thorne was a draper, milliner and businessman in Cape Town. He was also an active civil servant and Mayor of Cape Town.

Sir Laurens Jan van der Post, CBE, was a 20th-century South African Afrikaner author, farmer, soldier, political adviser to British heads of government, close friend of Prince Charles, godfather of Prince William, educator, journalist, humanitarian, philosopher, explorer and conservationist.

Lieutenant-General Sir Jacob Louis van Deventer KCB CMG DTD was a South African military commander.

General Sir Hesperus Andrias van Ryneveld,, known as Pierre van Ryneveld, was a South African military commander. He was the founding commander of the South African Air Force.

Sir Allan Ross Welsh was a Rhodesian lawyer and politician. He was Speaker of the Southern Rhodesian Legislative Assembly from 1935–1952.

Sir Cornelius Hermanus Wessels was a South African statesman.