Kwame
Kwame |
Gender |
male |
Name day |
Saturday |
Origin |
Word/Name |
Twi |
Region of origin |
Ghana |
Kwame or Kwamé is a Twi and Akan day name given to a boy born on a Saturday, originating in Ghana. People with this name include:
- Osei Kwame Panyin, an 18th century leader of the Ashanti Confederacy, located in what is today southern and central Ghana
- Kwame Anthony Appiah, a Ghanaian-British philosopher of semantics and racism
- Kwame Brown, an American basketball player in the NBA
- Kwamé Holland, an American rapper who enjoyed brief popularity during the golden age of hip hop; reemerged as a music producer named K1 Million
- Kwame Jackson, one of the two final candidates on Donald Trump's American television reality series The Apprentice.
- Kwame M. Kilpatrick, a former Mayor of Detroit, Michigan
- Kwame Boatwright, a North Carolina State sophomore student and track athlete
- 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 Raoul, a Democratic member of the Illinois Senate, representing the 13th district since his appointment in 2004.
In addition:
- Kwame (Captain Planet), a character in the television series Captain Planet and the Planeteers
- Kwame Monroe, an American Graffetti artists who penned works like "Poverty & Buxom". His works appeared in the Brooklyn Museum in the Summer of 2006.
- Kwame Of London, a poor aristocrat that lives in london, who to date has released 3 albums