Marivate is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Charles Daniel Marivate (1924–2019), South African medical doctor, son of Daniel Cornel C. T. D. Marivate (1927–2020), South African writer and academic, son of Daniel Cornel Martin Marivate (1934-2020), world-renowned South African obstetrician and gynaecologist, son of Daniel Cornel Daniel Cornel Marivate (1897–1989), South African writer and composer Vukosi Marivate, South African researcher, grandson of Charles Daniel