Fred Smollan

Frederick Cecil Smollan (20 August 1908 – 8 February 1998, Johannesburg) was a South Africa international rugby union player.

[2] Educated at Muir College and later Grey High School, Smollan was only the second Jew to represent South Africa in rugby union, after Morris Zimerman.

[5] In 1931 he set up a business Smollan Holdings, initially as a sales agency.

With the outbreak of World War II he served in North Africa.

He married Molly Amelia Raphaely in Johannesburg in 1943 and after the war returned to run his business which he built into a public company.