List of Ghanaians

This list of notable Ghanaians includes people who were born in Ghana and people who are of Ghanaian ancestry, who are significantly notable for their life and/or work.

Academics

George Ayittey (left) and Kwame Anthony Appiah (right)

Akua Kuenyehia, lawyer, judge, former First Vice President of the International Criminal Court, former Dean, Faculty of Law University of Ghana
William Emmanuel Abraham, philosopher, author, and vice chancellor of the University of Ghana
Kwasi Kwarfo Adarkwa, Ghanaian academician and the immediate past vice chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey, intellectual, missionary, and teacher
Francis Allotey, mathematical physicist
Fred McBagonluri, academic, author and inventor
Joseph Amenowode, academic and politician.
Kwame Anthony Appiah, philosopher and novelist
George Ayittey, economist and author
Robert Patrick Baffour, academic, mechanical engineer and first vice chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Nicholas T. Clerk, academic, administrator and Presbyterian minister
George C. Clerk, botanist
Philip Gbeho, teacher, musician, composer of Ghana national anthem
Paa Grant, founder and the first chairman of the United Gold Coast Convention
Joseph Henry Mensah, politician and economist
J. H. Kwabena Nketia, ethnomusicologist
Lawrence Henry Yaw Ofosu-Appiah, author and scholar
Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang
Kwesi Akwansah Andam, author, civil engineer and former Vice Chancellor of KNUST
Aba Andam, nuclear physicist, lecturer at KNUST
Daniel Asua Wubah, academic, President of Millersville University
Rita Akosua Dickson, Pro Vice Chancellor of KNUST

Arts

Nkyinkim by Kwame Akoto-Bamfo at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice that opened in 2018 in Montgomery, Alabama.

Ozwald Boateng

Sculpture and painting

Wiz Kudowor, artist
Kwame Akoto-Bamfo, sculptor
Eric Adjetey Anang, sculptor
Ben Agbee, artist
El Anatsui, sculptor
Serge Attukwei Clottey, artist
Nana Oforiatta Ayim, art historian, curator, filmmaker, writer
James Cudjoe, painter
Godfried Donkor, painter and mixed-media artist
Kimathi Donkor, painter
Ablade Glover, painter
Theodosia Okoh, artist, designer of Ghana's flag
Owusu-Ankomah, painter
Rikki Wemega-Kwawu, artist
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, painter
Bright Tetteh Ackwerh, sculptor

Architecture

David Adjaye, architect
Theodore S. Clerk, first Ghanaian architect and urban planner
Elsie Owusu, founding chair of the Society of Black Architects
Harry Sawyerr, architect

Fashion

Madam Joyce Ababio Fashion Designer/Educationist

Virgil Abloh, fashion designer
Hilda Akua, model
Kofi Ansah, fashion designer
Ozwald Boateng, fashion designer
Joe Casely-Hayford, fashion designer
Edward Enninful, editor of British Vogue magazine
Claudia Lumor, fashion magazine publisher and fashion show producer
Samata, formerly known as Samata Angel, fashion designer and author
Sam Sarpong, supermodel
Adwoa Aboah,supermodel
Ruth Quarshie
Akpene Diata Hoggar
Nana Akua Addo
Prisca Abah
Kate Tachie-Menson
Aisha Ayensu
Charlotte Mensah

Photography

Dancers and dance instructors

Business

Adam Afriyie (left) and Lord Paul Boateng (right)

Adam Afriyie, British Conservative Party politician and multimillionaire
Roland Agambire
Prince Kofi Amoabeng
K. Y. Amoako, international civil servant for the United Nations and businessman
Joyce Aryee, businesswoman and politician
Thomas Edward Barter, 17th-century Cape Coast trader
Lord Paul Boateng, British Labour Party politician, member of House of Lords, solicitor
Sam E Jonah, businessman
J. K. Siaw
Dzigbordi Dosoo
Winnifred Selby
Bernice Dapaah
Akua Sarpong-Ayisa
Adowarim Lugu Zuri
Abena Amoah
Marufatu Abiola Bawuah
Yvette Adounvo Atekpe
Patricia Obo-Nai
Anne Amuzu
Elizabeth Wyns-Dogbe

Academia and educators

Beattie Casely-Hayford

Gottlieb A. Adom, teacher, journalist and church minister
James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey, intellectual, missionary, and teacher
Kofi Annan, diplomat and chancellor of the University of Ghana
Ernest Aryeetey
Edward S. Ayensu, economist, scientist and former chairman of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
George Ayittey, economist, author, professor and president of the Free Africa Foundation
Kwesi Botchwey, professor and lawyer
Beattie Casely-Hayford, engineer
Gus Casely-Hayford, curator and cultural historian
Alexander Worthy Clerk, missionary
Carl Henry Clerk, teacher and church minister
Jane E. Clerk, teacher and education administrator
John Atta Mills, former President of the Fourth Republic of Ghana; university professor of law
Patrick Awuah, founder and President of Ashesi University
Stephen Adei, educationist, writer, economist and motivational speaker
Richard Appiah Akoto, educationalist
Francis Allotey, mathematical physicist
Kofi Awoonor, professor and diplomat
Mavis Owureku-Asare
Priscilla Kolibea Mante
Marian Asantewah Nkansah

Judges and judiciary

Samuel Azu Crabbe
Mabel Agyemang, Chief Justice Supreme Court of The Gambia
Daniel Francis Annan, judge
Joyce Bamford-Addo, judge and barrister
Vincent Cyril Richard Arthur Charles Crabbe
Thomas Mensah (lawyer), judge and President of Permanent Court of Arbitration

Emmanuel Charles Quist, barrister and judge, first African Speaker of the Legislative Assembly
Georgina Theodora Wood, first female Chief Justice of Ghana
Jones Victor Mawulorm Dotse
Amanda Akuokor Clinton
Sandra Opoku

Diplomats

Film actors and directors

Boris Kodjoe

Idris Elba

Freema Agyeman, actress
John Akomfrah, film director and screenwriter
Amma Asante, Ghanaian-British film writer and director
Jackie Aygemang, actress
Yaba Badoe, filmmaker and writer
Akosua Busia, actress
Paul Danquah, Ghanaian-British actor
Idris Elba, actor
Boris Kodjoe, actor
Nii Odartei Evans, actor, producer, voiceover artist
Peter Mensah, actor
Yvonne Nelson, actress
Nadia Buhari, actress
Joselyn Dumas, actress
Majid Michel, actor
Hugh Quarshie, actor
Van Vicker, actor
Chris Attoh, actor
Socrate Safo, director
Michael Dapaah
Kwame Owusu Ansah
Mac Jordan Amartey
Bob Santo
David Dontoh
John Dumelo
Kofi Adjorlolo
Ama Abebrese
Dayan Kodua
Sika Osei
Zynnell Zuh
Anita Kuma
Thelma Buabeng
Clara Amoateng Benson
Hailliote Sumney

Comedians

Kofi Adu (Agya Koo), actor and comedian
Michael Blackson, comedian
Jacinta Ocansey

Journalists

Samia Nkrumah

Komla Dumor, journalist
Anas Aremyaw Anas, journalist
Roger A. Agana, journalist
David Ampofo
Jemila Abdulai
Akpene Diata Hoggar, blogger
Manasseh Azure, journalist
Natalie Fort, journalist
Nathaniel Attoh, journalist
Attractive Mustapha, journalist
Robert Nii Arday Clegg, journalist
Akua Dansua, journalist
Ameyaw Debrah, blogger and journalist
Komla Dumor, journalist
Cameron Duodu, journalist, broadcaster, writer
Ekow Eshun, journalist and broadcaster
Afua Hirsch, journalist
Isaac Kaledzi, journalist
Asare Konadu
Kent Mensah, journalist
Gamal Nkrumah, journalist, Pan-Africanist and editor
Samia Nkrumah, journalist
Pearl Akanya Ofori, journalist
Kwaku Sakyi-Addo, journalist
Emma Morrison
Kwami Sefa Kayi, journalist
Brigitte Sossou Perenyi
Jessica Opare Saforo
Anita Kuma
Juliet Bawuah
Kweku Baako, Jnr, journalist
Edward Oppong Marfo, journalist
Bernard Avle, journalist

Military figures

Jerry John Rawlings

Akwasi Afrifa, soldier and former politician and head of state of Ghana
Joseph Arthur Ankrah, soldier and second head of state of Ghana
Emmanuel Kwasi Kotoka, lieutenant general; commissioned as a lieutenant in 1954 and seconded to the British army on the Rhine
David Anumle Hansen, Ghana Navy Chief of Naval Staff
Jerry Rawlings, former president of the Republic of Ghana and Ghana Air Force fighter pilot
Rosamond Asiamah Nkansah (born 1930), first Ghanaian policewoman

Physicians and surgeons

Dr. Jacob Kwakye-Maafo

Kwame Addo-Kufuor, medical doctor
Raphael Armattoe, doctor, poet, politician
E. A. Badoe
John Bilson
Kofi Boahene
Peter Bossman, doctor
Alexander Adu Clerk, sleep medicine specialist and psychiatrist
Matilda J. Clerk, physician
Charles Odamtten Easmon, surgeon
Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, cardiothoracic surgeon
Ernest James Hayford
Susan Gyankorama De-Graft Johnson
Emmanuel A. Kissi
Jacob Kwakye-Maafo, physician and surgeon
Edward Mahama
Frederick Nanka-Bruce
David Ofori-Adjei
Susan Ofori-Atta
Benjamin Quartey-Papafio, first Ghanaian to obtain an MD degree
Bernard Ribeiro, Baron Ribeiro, surgeon and former President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England
Ellen Boakye
Afua Adwo Jectey Hesse

Politics

Kofi Annan

Akwasi Afrifa, former President
Adam Afriyie, British Conservative Party politician and businessman
Ebenezer Ako-Adjei, nationalist politician and one of The Big Six
Edward Akufo-Addo, former President and one of The Big Six
Nana Akufo-Addo, current President of the Republic of Ghana
Reginald Reynolds Amponsah
Joseph Arthur Ankrah, former President
Kofi Annan, 7th UN Secretary-General
William Ofori Atta, politician, founding member of the United Gold Coast Convention and one of The Big Six
Prosper Douglas Bani, former Chief of Staff
Albert Adu Boahen
Lord Paul Boateng, British Labour Party politician, member of House of Lords, solicitor, barrister and businessman
Peter Bossman, Slovenian politician
Kofi Abrefa Busia, Prime Minister and author
J. B. Danquah, statesman, pan-Africanist, scholar, historian and one of The Big Six
James Victor Gbeho, diplomat
J. E. Casely Hayford, journalist, author, lawyer, educator, and politician
John Kufuor, former President of Ghana, Global Ambassador against Hunger for UN World Food Programme (WFP)
Kwasi Kwarteng, British Conservative Party politician
Fiifi Fiavi Kwetey, MP and Minister
Ambrose Dery, MP and Minister
Haruna Iddrisu, MP and Minister
Alan John Kyerematen
John Dramani Mahama
John Atta Mills, former President of the Republic of Ghana
Muntaka Mohammed Mubarak
Paa Kwesi Nduom
Kwame Nkrumah, founder of Pan-Africanism, leader of Ghana and its predecessor state, the Gold Coast and one of The Big Six
Emmanuel Obetsebi-Lamptey, politician, one of the founders and leaders of the United Gold Coast Convention and one of The Big Six
Jacob Otanka Obetsebi-Lamptey
Nii Amaa Ollennu, Chairman of the Presidential Commission and acting President of Ghana during the Second Republic from 7 August 1970 to 31 August 1970
Aaron Mike Oquaye
Victor Owusu
Jerry Rawlings, former President
Charles Wereko-Brobby
Kwadwo Baah Wiredu, former MP and Finance Minister
Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, politician, journalist
Obuobia Darko-Opoku
Ama Bame Busia
Nana Akua Owusu Afriyie
Naana Eyiah Quansah
Abena Durowaa Mensah
Cynthia Mamle Morrison
Joyce Adwoa Akoh Dei
Tina Gifty Naa Ayele Mensah
Nana Ama Dokua Asiamah Adjei
Felicia Adjei

Sports

Abedi Pele

Marcel Desailly

Isaac Dogboe

Asamoah Gyan

Osumanu Adama, world champion boxer
Rev Osei Kofi
Joseph Addai, American football player
Freddy Adu, footballer
Harry Aikines-Aryeetey, sprinter
Vida Anim, athlete
Ezekiel Ansah, American football player
Stephen Appiah, footballer, former captain of The Black Stars
Kwadwo Asamoah, footballer currently with Inter
Anita Asante, English soccer player
André Ayew, Swansea City footballer
Jordan Ayew, Crystal Palace footballer, brother of André Ayew
Mario Balotelli, footballer currently with OGC Nice
Jérôme Boateng, footballer currently with Bayern Munich
Kevin-Prince Boateng, footballer currently with UD Las Palmas
Joshua Clottey, former world champion boxer
Marcel Desailly, former French footballer
Michael Essien, footballer
Ignisious Gaisah, athlete
Kim Grant, footballer
Asamoah Gyan, footballer
Kofi Kingston, professional wrestler
Nana Yaw Konadu, world champion boxer
John Mensah, footballer
Pops Mensah-Bonsu, basketball player
Azumah Nelson, world champion boxer
Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong, skier
John Paintsil, footballer
Abedi Pele, footballer
Clement Quartey, olympic boxing silver medalist
Ike Quartey, former world champion boxer
Danny Welbeck, association footballer currently with Arsenal and the England national football team
Arthur Wharton, the first black professional association football player in the world
Rachel Yankey, footballer
Tony Yeboah, footballer
Thomas Partey, footballer
Timothy Fosu-Mensah, footballer
Stephen Appiah, former footballer
Abdul Baba Rahman, footballer
Kevin-Prince Boateng
Charles Asampong Taylor
Bernard Dong Bortey
Issac Dogboe, world champion boxer
Vida Opoku
Azume Adams
Lydia Mato
Juliana Kakraba
Winnifred Ntumi
Rose Amoanimaa Yeboah
Abigail Kwarteng
Habiba Atta Forson

Media

Reggie Yates

Dzifa Affainie
Anas Aremeyaw Anas
Roger A. Agana
Terry Baddoo, journalist and television news presenter
Margaret Busby, editor and publisher, founder of Allison & Busby
Ameyaw Debrah, blogger, publisher celebrity blogger
Marcel Desailly, pundit and former footballer
Afua Hirsch, journalist and television news presenter
Ras Kwame, DJ and radio presenter
Ras Mubarak, media consultant
Deborah Owusu-Bonsu, television presenter
Amoaning Samuel, blogger and radio personality
June Sarpong, television presenter
Mahama Shaibu
Alhassan Suhuyini, broadcast journalist
Reggie Yates, television presenter

Writers and poets

William Boyd

W. E. B. Du Bois

Ama Ata Aidoo, writer
Mohammed Naseehu Ali, writer and musician
Kofi Anyidoho, poet and academic
Ayi Kwei Armah, novelist and social critic
Ayesha Harruna Attah, writer
Kofi Awoonor, poet and academic
J. Benibengor Blay
William Boyd, novelist and screenwriter (born in Accra)
Mabel Dove Danquah, journalist, political activist and creative writer
Amma Darko, novelist
Kwame Dawes, poet, editor and critic
Joe de Graft, playwright and dramatist
Amu Djoleto, poet and educator
W. E. B. Du Bois, author, editor, sociologist, historian, civil rights activist and Pan-Africanist
Kodwo Eshun, writer, theorist and filmmaker
Yaa Gyasi, novelist
Kojo Laing, novelist
Lesley Lokko, novelist and architect
Atukwei Okai, poet, cultural activist and academic
Francis Ernest Kobina Parkes, poet
Nii Parkes, author and social commentator
Taiye Selasi
Efua Sutherland, playwright, poet and dramatist
Empi Baryeh
Portia Dery
Nana Sandy Achampong, novelist, poet and academic

Artists

Gospel Artist

ICT

Activists

Inventors and innovators

Others

Kofi Bentum Quantson
Harriet Bruce-Annan (born 1965), humanitarian
Efua Asibon
Ama Hemmah
Felicia Edem Attipoe
Ruth Ama Gyan-Darkwa
DJ Zel
Molly Germaine Prempeh
John Collins, UK born-Ghanaian guitarist, harmonica player and percussionist.

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