List of Ghanaians
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The following is a list of notable people from Ghana or of Ghanian descent:
- Ignatius Kutu Acheampong, former military dictator
- Freddy Adu, Ghana-born American soccer prodigy
- Akwasi Afrifa, former president
- Ama Ata Aidoo, writer
- Fred Akuffo, former president
- Edward Akufo-Addo, former president
- Joseph Arthur Ankrah, former president
- Kofi Annan, 7th UN Secretary-General
- Joseph Appiah, politician
- Kwame Anthony Appiah, philosopher and novelist
- Ayi Kwei Armah, social critic
- Harry Aikines-Aryeetey, sprinter
- Yaa Asantewaa, anti-colonial resistance leader
- Kofi Awoonor, writer
- Paul Boateng, British politician
- Kofi Busia, prime minister and author
- J.B. Danquah, political leader
- Marcel Desailly, Ghana-born French footballer
- John Kufuor, current President of Ghana
- Jeanette Kwakye, sprinter
- Charles Quansah, convicted serial killer
- Benjamin Laryea,Physical Therapist
- John Atta Mills, politician
- Nazr Mohammed, basketball player
- Azumah Nelson, world champion boxer
- Kwame Nkrumah, founder of Pan-Africanism
- Lawrence Henry Yaw Ofosu-Appiah, author, scholar
- (John) Atukwei Okai, poet and President of Pan African Writers' Association
- Francis Ernest Kobina Parkes (Frank Kobina Parkes), poet
- Nii Ayikwei Parkes (Nii Parkes), author and social commentator
- Jerry Rawlings, former president
