Johannes Jacobus Strydom (13 July 1965 – 19 November 2023) was a South African rugby union player who played as a lock.
In Super Rugby, he represented the Gauteng Lions and with the establishment of the South African franchise system in 1998, the Cats.
[7] He continued to represent South Africa during the 1996 and 1997 seasons, including the test series against the 1997 British Lions.
[8] Hannes Strydom died in a traffic collision near EMalahleni, a town in the Mpumalanga province, on 19 November 2023, at the age of 58.
He was the fifth player from the 1995 world-cup-winning side to die, after Ruben Kruger, Joost van der Westhuizen, James Small and Chester Williams.