20 Randlords

Sir George Albu, 1st Baronet was a mining magnate in the diamond and gold industries of South Africa.

Sir Abraham Bailey, 1st Baronet was a South African diamond tycoon, politician, financier and cricketer.

Barney Barnato, born Barnet Isaacs, was a British Randlord, one of the entrepreneurs who gained control of diamond mining, and later gold mining, in South Africa from the 1870s. He is perhaps best remembered as being a rival of Cecil Rhodes.

Alfred Beit was a Anglo-German gold and diamond magnate in South Africa, and a major donor and profiteer of infrastructure development on the African continent. He also donated much money to university education and research in several countries, and was the "silent partner" who structured the capital flight from post-Boer War South Africa to Rhodesia, and the Rhodes Scholarship, named after his employee, Cecil Rhodes. Beit's assets were structured around the so-called Corner House Group, which through its holdings in various companies controlled 37 per cent of the gold produced at the Witwatersrand's goldfields in Johannesburg in 1913.

Sir Otto John Beit, 1st Baronet, KCMG, FRS was a German-born British financier, philanthropist and art connoisseur.

Sir Thomas Cullinan was a South African diamond magnate. He is renowned for giving his name to the Cullinan Diamond, the largest diamond ever discovered, and as owner of the Premier Mine, now renamed the Cullinan Mine, from which the famous gem was extracted on 26 January 1905. He also gave his name to the nearby South African town of Cullinan. He was honored by the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Tembisa which named their church after him. This was after he played a very big role towards building the church.

Colonel John Dale Lace was a South African gold and diamond mining magnate and Randlord. He was born in Port St Mary on the Isle of Man.

Hermann Ludwig Eckstein was a German-born British mining magnate and banker.

Sir George Herbert Farrar, 1st Baronet, DSO (17 June 1859 in Chatteris, Cambridgeshire – 20 May 1915 in Kuibis, South West Africa, was a South African mining magnate, politician and soldier – Colonel and assistant Quartermaster General – Central Force, Union Defence Force, Hon. Colonel South African Light Horse.

Isaac "Jack" Barnato Joel was a South African mining magnate and a champion horse breeder.

Solomon Barnato "Solly" Joel, born in London, England, moved to South Africa in the 1880s where he made his fortune in connection with diamonds, later becoming a financier with interests in mining, brewing and railways.

Samuel Marks was a Lithuanian-born South African industrialist and financier.

Sir Maximillian Michaelis, was a South African financier, mining magnate, benefactor and patron of the arts.

Sir Lionel Phillips, 1st Baronet was a British-born South African financier, mining magnate and politician.

Jules Porgès was a Paris-based financier who played a central role in the rise of the Randlords who controlled the diamond and gold mining industries in South Africa.

Cecil John Rhodes was a British mining magnate, and politician in southern Africa who served as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony from 1890-96. An ardent believer in British imperialism, Rhodes and his British South Africa Company founded the southern African territory of Rhodesia, which the company named after him in 1895. South Africa's Rhodes University is also named after him. Rhodes set up the provisions of the Rhodes Scholarship, which is funded by his estate. He also put much effort towards his vision of a Cape to Cairo Railway through British territory.

Sir Joseph Benjamin Robinson, 1st Baronet was a South African mining magnate and Randlord. Born in Cradock, Eastern Cape, died Wynberg, Cape Town.

Harry Struben born Hendrik Wilhelm Struben aka Henry William Struben was the brother of Frederick Struben, who together managed the first gold-mining operation on the Reef. They were the sons of Johan Marinus Struben, a South African Republic official, and his wife Frances Sarah Beattie of Scottish origin. Harry was born during a yacht trip along the Lower Rhine. His family emigrated to Pietermaritzburg in Natal in 1850, and moved to Pretoria five years after.

James Benjamin Taylor was a South African Randlord.

Sir Julius Charles Wernher, 1st Baronet was a German-born Randlord and art collector who became part of the English establishment.