Ofori-Atta

Ofori-Atta is an Akan language patronymic surname with Akyem origins. Notable people with the Akan surname include:

Ofori Atta I (1881–1943) was the Okyenhene or King of Akyem Abuakwa
Ken Ofori-Atta (born 1959), investment banker, co-founder of Databank in Ghana and current Finance Minister
Kofi Asante Ofori-Atta (1912 – 1978), politician and the fourth Speaker of the Parliament of Ghana
William Ofori Atta (1910 – 1988), a founding member of the United Gold Coast Conventionone of "The Big Six" detained by the Gold Coast colonial government after the 1948 Accra riots and later Foreign minister (1971- 1972)
Susan Ofori-Atta (1917–1985), Ghanaian physician and the first female doctor in the Gold Coast

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