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Kirsty Coventry
Kirsty Leigh Coventry Seward is a Zimbabwean politician, sports administrator, and former competitive swimmer who is the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). She has served as the president of the IOC since 23 June 2025, and is the first woman, the first Zimbabwean, and the first African to hold the office, while also only the second non-European president of the IOC, following Avery Brundage who left office in 1972. Coventry served in the Cabinet of Zimbabwe from September 2018 to March 2025 as the Minister of Youth, Sport, Arts and Recreation until September 2023 and then as Minister of Sport, Recreation, Arts and Culture. A former Olympic swimmer and world record holder, she is the most decorated African Olympian.
Charlene, Princess of Monaco
Zimbabwean-South African former Olympic swimmer; wife of Albert II, Prince of Monaco
Chad le Clos
South African swimmer
Tatjana Smith
South African swimmer
Farida Osman
Egyptian swimmer
Cameron van der Burgh
South African Olympic swimmer
Oussama Mellouli
Tunisian swimmer
Natalie du Toit
South African swimmer
Penelope Heyns
swimmer
Terence Parkin
South African swimmer
Salim Iles
swimmer
Darian Townsend
South African and American swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, world champion, former world record-holder
Marianne Kriel
swimmer
Suzaan van Biljon
swimmer
Ali Khalafalla
Egyptian swimmer
Pedro Lima
Portuguese-Angolan actor and swimmer (1971–2020)
Oussama Sahnoune
Algerian swimmer
Kaylene Corbett
South African swimmer
Jason Dunford
Kenyan Olympic swimmer, media personality, rapper and entrepreneur
Akaram Mahmoud
Egyptian swimmer
Gerhard Zandberg
South African swimmer
Sofiane Daid
swimmer
Devon Myles Brown
South African swimmer
Nabil Kebbab
Algerian swimmer
Brendon Dedekind
swimmer
Ahmed Mathlouthi
Tunisian swimmer
Jaouad Syoud
Algerian swimmer
Hania Moro
Egyptian swimmer
Michael Houlie
South African swimmer
Marwan El-Amrawy
Egyptian swimmer
Emma Chelius
South African swimmer
Douglas Erasmus
South African swimmer
Gideon Louw
South Afrcian swimmer
Melissa Corfe
South African swimmer
Rania Elwani
Egyptian swimmer
Sherwite Hafez
Egyptian swimmer
Bako Ratsifa
Malagasy swimmer
Erin Gallagher
South African swimmer
Karin Prinsloo
swimmer
Mandy Loots
South African swimmer
Faten Ghattas
Tunisian swimmer
Lize-Mari Retief
swimmer
Ahmed Hussein
Egyptian swimmer
Calvyn Justus
South African swimmer
Troyden Prinsloo
swimmer
Myriam Mizouni
Tunisian swimmer
David Dunford
swimmer
Ronan Wantenaar
Namibian Swimmer
Taki Mrabet
Tunisian swimmer (1989-)
Felicity Passon
swimmer
Darren Murray
South African swimmer
Alaric Basson
South African swimmer
Senda Gharbi
Tunisian swimmer
Mandy Leach
swimmer
Storme Moodie
Zimbabwean former backstroke swimmer
Corinne Leclair
Mauritian swimmer
Mohamed Samy
Egyptian swimmer
Jill Brukman
swimmer