Breyten Breytenbach
- Known for
- Acting
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- September 16, 1939
- Age
- 86
- From
- Bonnievale, Cape Province, South Africa
Breyten Breytenbach is a South African writer and painter known for his opposition to apartheid, and consequent imprisonment by the South African government. He is informally considered as the national poet laureate by Afrikaans-speaking South Africans of the region.