This list of notable Ghanaians includes people who were born in Ghana and people who are of Ghanaian ancestry, who are significantly notable for their life and/or work.
University academics
Mohammed-Sani Abdulai - president of Lakeside University College William Emmanuel Abraham - Philosopher - Author and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana Kwasi Kwarfo Adarkwa - Academic and the past Vice Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey - Intellectual, missionary and teacher Francis Allotey - Mathematical physicist Joseph Amenowode - Academic and politician Aba Andam - Nuclear physicist and lecturer at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Kwesi Akwansah Andam - Author - civil engineer and former Vice Chancellor of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Kwame Anthony Appiah - Philosopher and novelist George Ayittey - Economist and author Robert Patrick Baffour - Academic - mechanical engineer and First Vice Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Nathaniel Boso - Academic and international marketing strategist George C. Clerk - Botanist Nicholas T. Clerk - Academic public administrator and Presbyterian Minister Philip Gbeho - Teacher and composer of the Ghana National Anthem Akua Kuenyehia - Academic and Lawyer who served as Judge of the International Criminal Court and former Dean of the Faculty of Law University of Ghana Fred McBagonluri - Academic - author and inventor Daniel Asua Wubah - Academic and President of Millersville University
Arts
Sculpture and painting
Bright Tetteh Ackwerh - Sculptor Ben Agbee - Artist Eric Adjetey Anang - Sculptor El Anatsui - Sculptor Owusu-Ankomah - Painter Nana Oforiatta Ayim - Art historian, curator, filmmaker, writer Kwame Akoto-Bamfo - Sculptor Serge Attukwei Clottey - Artist James Cudjoe - Painter Godfried Donkor - Painter and mixed-media artist Kimathi Donkor - Painter Ablade Glover - Painter Amon Kotei - Artist and designer of the coat of arms of Ghana Wiz Kudowor - Artist Theodosia Okoh - Artist and designer of the Flag of Ghana Rikki Wemega-Kwawu - Artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye - Painter
Architecture
David Adjaye - Architect Theodore S. Clerk - Urban planner and first Ghanaian professionally certified architect Elsie Owusu - Founding chair of the Society of Black Architects Harry Sawyerr - Architect
Dance Obo Addy - Drummer and dancer
Fashion
Joyce Ababio - Fashion designer and educator Virgil Abloh - Fashion designer Adwoa Aboah - Supermodel Nana Akua Addo - Model and film producer/actress Kofi Ansah - Fashion designer Chloe Asaam - Fashion designer and sustainable fashion advocate Aisha Ayensu - Fashion designer and founder of Christie Brown Ozwald Boateng - Fashion designer Edward Enninful - Former Editor-in-Chief of British Vogue magazine Hilda Akua Frimpong - Model Joe Casely-Hayford - Fashion designer Akpene Diata Hoggar - Miss Universe Ghana, and Activist Claudia Lumor - Fashion magazine publisher and fashion show producer Charlotte Mensah - Hairstylist founder of hair lounge Ruth Quarshie - Model and winner of Miss Universe Ghana 2017 Sam Sarpong - Supermodel Kate Tachie-Menson - Model
Photography
Felicia Abban - Ghana's first female professional photographer Philip Kwame Apagya - Photographer James Barnor - Hon. FRPS Photographer and Holder of The Order Of The Volta Prince Gyasi - Visual artist and founder of non-profit Boxedkids
Business
Adam Afriyie - Former member of parliament for Windsor and member of the British Conservative Party George Afriyie - Businessman and owner/President of Ghanaian club Planners Athletic Club Roland Agambire - Entrepreneur and former chief executive officer of Agams Holdings and the chairman and chief executive officer of the information and communications technology company Rlg Communications Prince Kofi Amoabeng - Former Military Officer and businessman Abena Amoah - Deputy Managing Director of the Ghana Stock Exchange. K. Y. Amoako - International civil servant for the United Nations and businessman Anne Amuzu - Computer scientist and co-founder of technology company Nandimobile Limited Joyce Aryee - Businesswoman and politician Yvette Adounvo Atekpe - Businesswoman and Regional Managing Director of Internet Solutions Marufatu Abiola Bawuah - Managing director/chief executive officer of United Bank for Africa Lord Paul Boateng - British Labour Party politician and the UK's first black cabinet minister Bernice Dapaah - Social entrepreneur and founder/chief executive officer of the Ghana Bamboo Bike Initiative Dzigbordi Dosoo - Founder and CEO of DCG Consulting Group and Allure Africa Sam E Jonah - Businessman Patricia Obo-Nai - Engineer and the first Ghanaian to become chief executive officer of Vodafone Ghana Kate Quartey-Papafio - Businesswoman Georgette Barnes Sakyi-Addo - Businesswoman Akua Sarpong-Ayisa - Entrepreneur and founder of the floral company "Unique Floral" Winnifred Selby - social entrepreneur/president of the EPF Educational Empowerment Initiative and co-founder of the Ghana Bamboo Bike Initiative J. K. Siaw - Industrialist/philanthropist and establisher of Tata Brewery Ltd Elizabeth Wyns-Dogbe - Chartered insurer and an associate member of The Chartered Insurance Institute UK Adowarim Lugu Zuri - Founder and manager of Wazuri Ghana Limited
Other educators
Stephen Adei - Educationist, writer, economist and motivational speaker Gottlieb Ababio Adom - Teacher, journalist and Church Minister James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey - Intellectual, Missionary, and teacher Richard Appiah Akoto - Educationalist Francis Allotey - Mathematical physicist Kofi Annan - Former secretary-general of the United Nations, Nobel peace prize winner and chancellor of the University of Ghana Ernest Aryeetey - Emeritus Professor at the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), Former Secretary-General of the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) and vice-chancellor of the University of Ghana Kofi Awoonor - Professor and diplomat Patrick Awuah - Founder and president of Ashesi University Edward S. Ayensu - Economist, scientist and former chairman of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research George Ayittey - Economist, author, professor and President of the Free Africa Foundation Emmanuel Yaw Benneh - Law Professor Kwesi Botchwey - Professor and lawyer Beattie Casely-Hayford - Engineer Gus Casely-Hayford - Curator and cultural historian Alexander Worthy Clerk - Missionary and teacher Carl Henry Clerk - Teacher and Church Minister Jane E. Clerk - Teacher and education administrator Nicholas Timothy Clerk - Missionary and Clergyman Priscilla Kolibea Mante - Neuropharmacologist, researcher and lecturer from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology John Atta Mills - Former president of the Fourth Republic of Ghana and university professor of law Marian Asantewah Nkansah - Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences recipient and environmental chemist Mavis Owureku-Asare - Food scientist and CEO of Impact Food Hub Percy Sackey - Teacher
Judiciary
Mabel Agyemang - Chief Justice of the Supreme court of The Gambia Daniel Francis Annan - Judge Joyce Bamford-Addo - Judge and barrister Amanda Akuokor Clinton - C.E.O of Bitcoin Exchange Africa and the founding partner of the law office of Clinton Consultancy V. C. R. A. C. Crabbe - Former Judge of the Ghana Supreme Court Samuel Azu Crabbe - Barrister and former 5th Chief of Justice of the republic of Ghana Jones Dotse - Former supreme court judge of Ghana and The Gambia Cynthia Lamptey - Lawyer and public servant, former Director of Public Prosecutions Thomas Mensah (lawyer) - Judge and President of Permanent Court of Arbitration Sandra Opoku - Lawyer and first female Director of Tema Port Emmanuel Charles Quist - Barrister and judge, first African Speaker of the Gold Coast legislative assembly Georgina Theodora Wood - First female Chief Justice of Ghana
Diplomats
Elizabeth Adjei Kofi Annan - Former secretary-general of the United Nations, Nobel peace prize winner and chancellor of the University of Ghana K. B. Asante Elsie Addo Awadzi Paul Boateng Mohamed Ibn Chambas Pauline M. Clerk Anita Kiki Gbeho Akua Kuenyehia Amon Nikoi Charlotte Osei Nathan Quao Genevieve Delali Tsegah
Film actors and directors
Ama K. Abebrese Kofi Adjorlolo Freema Agyeman, actress John Akomfrah, film director and screenwriter Mac Jordan Amartey Jackie Appiah, actress Amma Asante, Ghanaian-British film writer and director Chris Attoh, actor Diaana Babnicova, actress Yaba Badoe, filmmaker and writer Clara Amoateng Benson Thelma Buabeng Nadia Buhari, actress Akosua Busia, actress Paul Danquah, Ghanaian-British actor Michael Dapaah Leila Djansi David Dontoh Joselyn Dumas, actress John Dumelo Idris Elba, actor Nii Odartei Evans, actor, producer, voiceover artist Boris Kodjoe, actor Dayan Kodua Anita Kuma Peter Mensah, actor Majid Michel, actor Yvonne Nelson, actress Sika Osei Nii Kwate Owoo Kwesi Owusu Kwame Owusu-Ansah Hugh Quarshie, actor Socrate Safo, director Bob Santo Hailliote Sumney Van Vicker, actor Zynnell Zuh
Comedians
Kofi Adu (Agya Koo), actor and comedian Michael Blackson, comedian Abusuapanin Judas, actor and comedian Jacinta Ocansey, comedian Bob Santo, actor and comedian
Journalists
Jemila Abdulai Edward Adeti, journalist David Ampofo Nana Aba Anamoah, journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas, journalist Godwin Asediba, Journalist Nathaniel Attoh, journalist Bernard Avle, journalist Manasseh Azure Awuni, journalist Kweku Baako Jnr, journalist Juliet Bawuah Kojo Akoto Boateng, journalist Seth Kwame Boateng, journalist Seth J. Bokpe, journalist Robert Nii Arday Clegg, journalist Solomon Joojo Cobbinah, investigative journalist Akua Sena Dansua, journalist Ameyaw Debrah, blogger and journalist Emmanuel K. Dogbevi, journalist Kofi Adu Domfeh Komla Dumor, journalist Cameron Duodu, journalist, broadcaster, writer Ekow Eshun, journalist and broadcaster Natalie Fort, journalist Afua Hirsch, journalist Akpene Diata Hoggar, blogger Ahmed Hussein-Suale, investigative journalist Mustapha Inusah, a.k.a. Attractive Mustapha - journalist Nana Kwadwo Jantuah, journalist Isaac Kaledzi, journalist Kwami Sefa Kayi, journalist Asare Konadu Anita Kuma Edward Oppong Marfo, journalist Kent Mensah, journalist Emma Morrison Gamal Nkrumah, journalist, Pan-Africanist and editor Samia Nkrumah, journalist Pearl Akanya Ofori, journalist Jessica Opare-Saforo Brigitte Perenyi Kwaku Sakyi-Addo, journalist
Military figures
Sarah Aba-Afari, first woman in the police service in both Ghana and Africa to earn a PhD Akwasi Afrifa, soldier and former politician and head of state of Ghana Joseph Arthur Ankrah, soldier and second head of state of Ghana David Animle Hansen, Ghana Navy Chief of Naval Staff Emmanuel Kwasi Kotoka, lieutenant general; commissioned as a lieutenant in 1954 and seconded to the British army on the Rhine Rosamond Asiamah Nkansah (born 1930), first Ghanaian policewoman Jerry Rawlings, former president of the Republic of Ghana and Ghana Air Force fighter pilot
Physicians and surgeons
Oblempong Nii Kojo Ababio V, dental surgeon and traditional ruler Nancy Abu-Bonsrah, neurosurgeon Beatrice Wiafe Addai, medical officer and surgeon Kwame Addo-Kufuor, medical doctor Raphael Armattoe, doctor, poet, politician E. A. Badoe John Bilson Kofi Boahene Ellen Boakye Peter Bossman, doctor Alexander A. Clerk, sleep medicine specialist and psychiatrist Matilda J. Clerk, physician Charles Odamtten Easmon, surgeon Emmanuel Evans-Anfom, physician and academic Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, cardiothoracic surgeon Ernest James Hayford Afua Adwo Jectey Hesse Emmanuel A. Kissi