High School Roseneath Primary School List of hospitals and clinics Brenthurst Clinic Donald Gordon Medical Centre Johannesburg General Hospital Milpark Hospital Parklane Clinic Notable residents Sir Herbert Baker - Renowned architect throughout the Commonwealth Sir Thomas Cullinan - Diamond magnate and master builder Colonel John Dale Lace - Mining magnate and Randlord James Percy FitzPatrick - Author and mining financier Bruce Fordyce - 9 times Comrades Marathon winner Nadine Gordimer - Political activist, novelist and Nobel Prize laureate Taubie Kushlick - Actress Sarah Gertrude Millin - Author Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner - Colonial administrator Sir Ernest Oppenheimer - Founder of Anglo American Harry Oppenheimer - Chairman of Anglo American and De Beers for 25 and 27 years respectively Nicky Oppenheimer - Son of Harry Oppenheimer and family Dorothea Sarah Florence Alexandra, Lady Phillips - Art patron Sir Lionel Phillips, 1st Baronet - Randlord and philanthropist Rabbi Louis Isaac Rabinowitz - Chief Rabbi in Johannesburg Ernest Willmot Sloper - Architect, stone mason and partner in "Baker, Masey and Sloper" Jane Taylor - Playwright Arts and culture Modern-day Parktown and its surrounds form a centre of Arts and Culture in Johannesburg. The Linder Auditorium, located on the Wits Education Campus is home to the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Johannesburg's only full-time professional orchestra. Just next door, the Williams Block houses the Johannesburg Youth Orchestra Company. The Johannesburg Children's Theatre is across the Road from the Education Campus, housed in two Parktown mansions and the South African Ballet Theatre and South African Youth Ballet are a few blocks away in Braamfontein on the Johannesburg Theatre's property. Places of worship and gathering Parktown is also home to a diverse range of churches including a Dutch Reformed church, a beautiful 1904 Baker and Masey Anglican church, St. Georges, and the Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Temple Emanuel, one of Johannesburg's last remaining Jewish Reform synagogues, is also located in Parktown. The Johannesburg Freemasons' Hall, home to many of Johannesburg oldest masonic lodges, is also in Parktown. See also Parktown North Parktown prawn South African minesweeper HMSAS Parktown, sank off Tobruk in 1942, named after the Johannesburg suburb of Parktown References External links The Johannesburg Youth Orchestra Company The Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra The Johannesburg General Hospital Parktown Heritage Joburg News - Parktown DSJ Johannesburg Region F