Daniël Hendrik Celliers du Plessis (12 March 1898 – 13 July 1981) was the Head of the South African Railways and co-founder of the Afrikaner Broederbond.
Du Plessis was born on 12 March 1898 in Colesberg, Cape Colony.
He was the son of Izak David du Plessis and Hester Cornelia Cecilia Lessing.
Du Plessis and his family moved from Colesberg, to Parys, Orange Free State and then to Germiston, Transvaal.
[5] Highlights of his career included : In middle 1918, du Plessis, together with his school friend H.J.