Retief is an

Afrikaans Afrikaans is a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language spoken in South Africa, Namibia and to a lesser extent Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe and also Argentina where there is a group in Sarmiento, Chubut, Sarmiento that speaks the Pat ...

surname. It may refer to: *

Piet Retief Pieter Mauritz Retief (12 November 1780 – 6 February 1838) was a '' Voortrekker'' leader. Settling in 1814 in the frontier region of the Cape Colony, he later assumed command of punitive expeditions during the sixth Xhosa War. He became a s ...

(1780–1838), prominent

voortrekker The Great Trek (, ) was a northward migration of Dutch-speaking settlers who travelled by wagon trains from the Cape Colony into the interior of modern South Africa from 1836 onwards, seeking to live beyond the Cape's British colonial adminis ...

* Glen Retief, South African writer * Johan Retief (born 1946), former Chief of the South African Navy *

Johan Retief (rugby union) Johannes Adriaan Retief (born 10 October 1995) is a Namibian rugby union player for the n national team and for the Krasny Yar Krasnoyarsk. His regular position is lock or flank. Rugby career Retief was born in Windhoek. He made his test de ...

(born 1995), Namibian rugby union player * Lize-Mari Retief, (born 1986), South African swimmer *

Jame Retief Jame Retief is the main character in a series of satire, satirical science fiction stories by Keith Laumer. The stories were written over a span of thirty years beginning in the early 1960s, without much regard for chronology or any particular sch ...

, fictional diplomat in Keith Laumer's series of science fiction stories

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