Kwame
| Kwame | |
|---|---|
| Gender | Male |
| Origin | |
| Word/name | Akan people |
| Meaning | born on a Saturday |
| Region of origin | Empire of Ashanti, Ghana |
| Other names | |
| Related names | |
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:
- Kwame Anthony Appiah, a Ghanaian-British philosopher of semantics and racism
- Kwame Brown, an 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 Kilpatrick, former mayor of Detroit, Michigan
- Kwame Nkrumah (originally Francis Nwia Kofi Ngonloma), a Ghanaian politician (and for a time Life President) and one of the founders of Pan-Africanism
- Kwame Raoul, a Democratic member of the Illinois Senate, representing the 13th district since 2004
- Kwame Somburu (Paul Boutelle), an American socialist political activist
- Kwame Tucker, a Bermudian cricketer
- Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael), a Trinidadian-American black activist and leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Black Panther Party
- Osei Kwame Panyin, an 18th-century leader of the Ashanti Confederacy, located in what is today southern and central Ghana
In addition:
- Kwame (Captain Planet), a fictional character in the animated television series Captain Planet and the Planeteers
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