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.

University academics

 * William Emmanuel Abraham, philosopher, author, and vice-chancellor of the University of Ghana
 * Kwasi Kwarfo Adarkwa, 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
 * Joseph Amenowode, academic and politician
 * Kwesi Akwansah Andam, author, civil engineer and former Vice Chancellor of KNUST
 * Aba Andam, nuclear physicist, lecturer at KNUST


 * 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
 * Akua Kuenyehia, lawyer, judge, former First Vice President of the International Criminal Court, former Dean, Faculty of Law University of Ghana
 * Fred McBagonluri, academic, author and inventor
 * Daniel Asua Wubah, academic, President of Millersville University
 * Freddy Borketey
 * Nathaniel Boso, academic, corporate, and international marketing strategist

Sculpture and painting

 * Bright Tetteh Ackwerh, sculptor
 * Eric Adjetey Anang, sculptor
 * Ben Agbee, artist
 * Kwame Akoto-Bamfo, sculptor
 * 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
 * Wiz Kudowor, artist
 * Theodosia Okoh, artist, designer of Ghana's flag
 * Owusu-Ankomah, painter
 * Rikki Wemega-Kwawu, artist
 * Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, painter

Architecture

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

Fashion

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

Photography

 * Felicia Ansah Abban
 * Philip Kwame Apagya
 * James Barnor
 * Prince Gyasi

Dancers and dance instructors

 * Obo Addy

Business

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

Other educators

 * Stephen Adei, educationist, writer, economist and motivational speaker
 * Gottlieb A. Adom, teacher, journalist and church minister
 * James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey, intellectual, missionary, and teacher
 * Richard Appiah Akoto, educationalist
 * Francis Allotey, mathematical physicist
 * Kofi Annan, diplomat and chancellor of the University of Ghana
 * Ernest Aryeetey
 * Kofi Awoonor, professor and diplomat
 * Patrick Awuah, founder and President of Ashesi University
 * 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 and teacher
 * Carl Henry Clerk, teacher and church minister
 * Jane E. Clerk, teacher and education administrator
 * Nicholas Timothy Clerk, missionary and clergyman
 * John Atta Mills, former President of the Fourth Republic of Ghana; university professor of law
 * Mavis Owureku-Asare
 * Priscilla Kolibea Mante
 * Marian Asantewah Nkansah

Judiciary

 * Mabel Agyemang, Chief Justice Supreme Court of The Gambia
 * Daniel Francis Annan, judge
 * Joyce Bamford-Addo, judge and barrister
 * Amanda Akuokor Clinton
 * Vincent Cyril Richard Arthur Charles Crabbe
 * Samuel Azu Crabbe
 * Jones Victor Mawulorm Dotse
 * Cynthia Lamptey
 * Thomas Mensah (lawyer), judge and President of Permanent Court of Arbitration
 * Sandra Opoku
 * Emmanuel Charles Quist, barrister and judge, first African Speaker of the Legislative Assembly
 * Georgina Theodora Wood, first female Chief Justice of Ghana

Diplomats

 * Elizabeth Adjei
 * K. B. Asante
 * Elsie Addo Awadzi
 * Paul Boateng
 * Mohammed Ibn Chambas
 * Pauline M. Clerk
 * Anita Kiki Gbeho
 * Akua Kuenyehia
 * Amon Nikoi
 * Charlotte Osei
 * Nathan Quao
 * Genevive Delali Tsegah

Film actors and directors

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

Comedians

 * Kofi Adu (Agya Koo), actor and comedian
 * Michael Blackson, comedian
 * Abusuapanin Judas, actor and comedian
 * Jacinta Ocansey, comedian
 * Bob Santo, actor and comedian

Journalists

 * Emmanuel K. Dogbevi, journalist
 * Anas Aremyaw Anas, journalist
 * Nana Aba Anamoah, journalist
 * Roger A. Agana, journalist
 * David Ampofo
 * Jemila Abdulai
 * Bernard Avle, journalist
 * Manasseh Azure, journalist
 * Nathaniel Attoh, journalist
 * Kweku Baako, Jnr, journalist
 * Juliet Bawuah
 * Kojo Akoto Boateng, 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
 * Natalie Fort, journalist
 * Afua Hirsch, journalist
 * Akpene Diata Hoggar, blogger
 * Nana Kwadwo Jantuah, journalist
 * Isaac Kaledzi, journalist
 * Kwami Sefa Kayi, journalist
 * Asare Konadu
 * Anita Kuma
 * Kent Mensah, journalist
 * Emma Morrison
 * Gamal Nkrumah, journalist, Pan-Africanist and editor
 * Samia Nkrumah, journalist
 * Pearl Akanya Ofori, journalist
 * Edward Oppong Marfo, journalist
 * Brigitte Sossou Perenyi
 * Jessica Opare Saforo
 * Kwaku Sakyi-Addo, journalist
 * Seth J. Bokpe, journalist
 * Seth Kwame Boateng, journalist
 * Emmanuel Kwasi Debrah, journalist

Military figures

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

Physicians and surgeons

 * Oblempong Nii Kojo Ababio V, dental surgeon and traditional ruler
 * Nancy Abu-Bonsrah, neurosurgeon
 * Beatrice Wiafe Addai, medical officer and surgeon
 * 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
 * Emmanuel Evans-Anfom, physician and academic
 * 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
 * Fred T. Sai, academic and family health physician
 * Ellen Boakye
 * Afua Adwo Jectey Hesse

Politics

 * Felicia Adjei
 * Justice Samuel Adjei
 * Emelia Arthur
 * San Nasamu Asabigi
 * Nana Ama Dokua Asiamah Adjei
 * 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
 * Kojo Asamoa-Caesar, Member, Democratic Party
 * William Ofori Atta, politician, founding member of the United Gold Coast Convention, one of The Big Six
 * Prosper Douglas Bani, former Chief of Staff
 * Albert Adu Boahen
 * Lucy Awuni Mbun
 * Lord Paul Boateng, British Labour Party politician, member of House of Lords, solicitor, barrister and businessman
 * Peter Bossman, Slovenian politician
 * Ama Bame Busia
 * Kofi Abrefa Busia, Prime Minister and author
 * J. B. Danquah, statesman, pan-Africanist, scholar, historian and one of The Big Six
 * Obuobia Darko-Opoku
 * Joyce Adwoa Akoh Dei
 * James Victor Gbeho, diplomat
 * J. E. Casely Hayford, journalist, author, lawyer, educator, and politician
 * Abu Kasanbata
 * John Kufuor, former President of Ghana, Global Ambassador against Hunger for UN World Food Programme (WFP)
 * Ken Kwaku (born 1946), corporate governance expert
 * 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
 * Kwadwo Baah Wiredu, former MP and Finance Minister
 * Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, politician, journalist
 * Nana Akua Owusu Afriyie
 * K. Abaka-Quansah, former MP
 * Naana Eyiah Quansah
 * Abena Durowaa Mensah
 * Cynthia Mamle Morrison
 * Tina Gifty Naa Ayele Mensah
 * Jerry Rawlings, former President
 * Charles Wereko-Brobby
 * Justina Owusu-Banahene, Bono Regional Minister

Sports

 * Osumanu Adama, world champion boxer
 * Azume Adams
 * 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, former footballer
 * Anita Asante, English footballer
 * André Ayew, footballer
 * Jordan Ayew, footballer, brother of André Ayew
 * Mario Balotelli, footballer
 * Ben Bentil (born 1995), Ghanaian basketball player for Hapoel Tel Aviv of the Israeli Basketball Premier League
 * Jérôme Boateng, footballer
 * Kwame Ayew
 * Kevin-Prince Boateng, footballer
 * Joshua Clottey, former world champion boxer
 * Marcel Desailly, former French footballer, captain of the France national football team and FIFA World Cup winner
 * 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, footballer
 * 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
 * Lydia Mato
 * Juliana Kakraba
 * Winnifred Ntumi
 * Rose Amoanimaa Yeboah
 * Abigail Kwarteng
 * Habiba Atta Forson
 * Kofi Sarkodie

Media

 * Dzifa Affainie
 * Nana Aba Anamoah, media personality
 * Nana Yaa Serwaa Sarpong, media personality and entrepreneur
 * Anas Aremeyaw Anas
 * Roger A. Agana
 * Scofray Nana Yaw Yeboah, Golden City Business Magazine
 * 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
 * Oral Ofori, digital storyteller
 * Mahama Shaibu
 * Alhassan Suhuyini, broadcast journalist
 * Reggie Yates, television presenter

Writers and poets

 * 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)
 * Roseanne A. Brown, fantasy and Young adult fiction novelist
 * 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, publisher and social commentator
 * Taiye Selasi
 * Efua Sutherland, playwright, poet and dramatist
 * Empi Baryeh
 * Portia Dery
 * Nana Sandy Achampong, novelist, poet and academic

Artists

 * Akosua Agyapong
 * Kofi Owusu Dua Anto
 * Kojo Antwi
 * Kojo Funds
 * Becca
 * Lethal Bizzle
 * Adeline Ama Buabeng, actress and storyteller
 * C-Real
 * Castro
 * A. B. Crentsil
 * Rocky Dawuni
 * Amakye Dede
 * Donae'o
 * Bisa Kdei
 * Samini
 * E.L
 * Efya
 * Fuse ODG
 * Kofi Ghanaba
 * Eshun
 * Jay Ghartey
 * Sherifa Gunu
 * Joey B
 * Kesse
 * Amerado
 * Kofi Kinaata
 * Pappy Kojo
 * Medikal
 * Daddy Lumba
 * Nayaah
 * Agya Koo Nimo
 * Nii Okai
 * Osibisa
 * Dizzee Rascal
 * Raye
 * Reggie Rockstone
 * Esther Smith
 * Stonebwoy
 * Stormzy
 * Sway
 * Tempa T
 * Tricky (musician)
 * Shatta Wale
 * Ebony Reigns
 * Wendy Shay
 * R2Bees
 * Sarkodie
 * Kuami Eugene
 * Kwesi Arthur
 * KiDi
 * Darkovibes
 * Ebony
 * Wiyala
 * Rocky Dawuni
 * Black Sherif
 * Stevie Wonder

Gospel artists

 * Majesty
 * Joe Beecham
 * Helen Yawson
 * Joe Mettle
 * Diana Hamilton
 * Daughters of Glorious Jesus

Information and communications technology

 * Mohammed-Sani Abdulai

Activists

 * Stella Saaka
 * Juliana Dogbadzi
 * Abena Dugan
 * Afi Azaratu Yakubu

Inventors and innovators

 * Herman Chinery-Hesse
 * Thomas Mensah
 * Ave Kludze
 * Bright Simons
 * Fred McBagonluri
 * Kojo Sarfo Kantanka
 * Alexander Anim-Mensah

Others

 * Harriet Bruce-Annan (born 1965), humanitarian
 * Maudlyn Akosua Awuku, women's rights advocate
 * Efua Asibon
 * Ama Hemmah
 * Nana Yaw Nkrumah, record producer and sound engineer
 * Felicia Edem Attipoe
 * Eva Mends, economist
 * Ruth Ama Gyan-Darkwa
 * DJ Zel
 * Molly Germaine Prempeh
 * John Collins, UK born-Ghanaian guitarist, harmonica player and percussionist
 * Daniel Yaw Domelevo, Auditor-General of Ghana
 * Scofray Nana Yaw Yeboah, transformational coach, mBIT Master Coach, corporate trainer, consultant, author, and columnist.