Kwame
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Kwame is a Twi day-name and a given name originating in Ghana. It is the name given to a male born on a Saturday.
- Alan Augustine Kwame Asante Boateng British actor named after Augustine of Hippo
- Osei Kwame Panyin - 18th century leader of the Ashanti Confederacy, located in what is today southern and central Ghana
- Kwame Nkrumah - a Ghanaian politician and for a time Life President (originally Francis Nwia-Kofi Ngonloma) and one of the most influential founders of Pan-Africanism.
- Kwame Ture - name adopted by Stokely Carmichael, a Trinidadian-American Black activist and leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Black Panther Party to honor Kwame Nkrumah and Ahmed Sékou Touré
- Kwame M. Kilpatrick, the Mayor of Detroit, Michigan
- Kwame Anthony Appiah - a Ghanaian-British philosopher of semantics and racism
- Kwame Holman - a correspondent on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
- Kwame Jackson - one of the two final candidates on Donald Trump's American television reality series The Apprentice.
- Kwame Kwei-Armah - a British actor and presenter
- Kwame Brown - an American basketball player in the NBA
- Kwame (Captain Planet character), a character in the television series Captain Planet and the Planeteers
- Kwamé (rapper) - Kwamé Holland, an American rapper who enjoyed brief popularity during the golden age of hip hop; reemerged as a music producer named K1 Million
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