- Michael Essien
Michael Essien (born December 3, 1982 in Accra) is a Ghanaian International footballer. He currently plays for Chelsea in the English Premier League. He is a central midfielder and plays as a deep-lying playmaker for the "Black Stars", the Ghana national football team.
- Laryea Kingston
Laryea Kingston (born 7 November 1980 in Accra, Ghana) is a Ghanaian football midfielder currently playing for Scottish Premier League club Heart of Midlothian after signing from Russian First Division club Terek Grozny.
- Asamoah Gyan
Asamoah Gyan (born November 22, 1985 in Accra) is a Ghanaian International football player who plays for Udinese in the Italian Serie A. He is the first Ghanaian Player to have ever scored a goal at the FIFA World Cup Finals. Having signed for Udinese in 2003, Gyan would spend two-years on loan at Serie B Club Modena FC. Following some excellent displays during the 2006 FIFA World Cup, he attracted interest from Russia. He would return to Udinese at the beginning of 2006, …
- Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson is a Ghanaian footballer. As of 2006 plays for Kayserispor. He also played for Gaziantepspor, Fenerbahçe SK. He is famous for his freekick goal against Galatasaray when he was playing for Fenerbahçe SK. Johnson is also known for his wild game style. Johnson is 182 cm tall.
- Richard Kingson
Richard Kingson, also known as Faruk Gürsoy, is a Ghanaian International goalkeeper who currently represents Birmingham City in the English Premier League. He is the starting Goalkeeper of the Ghana national team, and was called for the 2006 FIFA World Cup. Football commentators have said he played incredibly well against the Czech Republic, where he made a lot of critical saves at the end of the match.
- Sammy Adjei
Sammy Adjei (born September 1 1980) is a Ghanaian international footballer who plays for Moadon Sport Ashdod in Israel. He is the current number one goalkeeper for the national side. Transferred from Accra-based Ghanaian club Hearts of Oak for a reported $150,000 on September 15 2005. He became the football national hero after having saved a penalty by the Danish champion Rene Nygaard Jensen. Adjei was named in Ghana's 2006 World Cup squad on 13 May 2006.Despite this, …
- Anthony Annan
Anthony Annan (born July 21, 1986 in Accra) is a Ghanaian international footballer who plays for Norwegian club I.K. Start. He is an all-action box-to-box central midfielder who is very comfortable playing offensively or defensively. Nicknamed Pablo Aimar in comparison to the Argentine national midfield superstar, Annan combines immense skill with a physical presence that complements his average height.
- Eric Addo
Eric Addo (born November 12, 1978 in Accra) is a Ghanaian International football player who, as of 2007, plays professionally for the Dutch Eredivisie Club PSV Eindhoven. Once heralded as a potential African great thanks to his combination of strength, pace and poise early on, Eric Addo, a combative central defender who can also play as a defensive midfielder had his budding career sadly blighted by knee injuries, eventhough he is still having a very colorful career.
- Mustapha Tettey Addy
Mustapha Tettey Addy (b. Avenor, Accra, Ghana, 1942) is a Ghanaian drummer and ethnomusicologist. Addy is a member of the Ga ethnic group and is the founder of The Obonu Drummers, which performs the drumming repertoire of royal court of Ghana. He has recorded many albums and has performed extensively in Africa, Europe, and North America.
- E.T. Mensah
E.T. Mensah (born 1919 in Accra; died 1996) was a Ghanaian Highlife musician. He began as a flautist with the Accra Orchestra, a schoolchildren band, in 1930. In 1948 he formed "The Tempos", a group he might be best known for, and toured West Africa. The group gained international attention and in 1956 Mensah performed with Louis Armstrong. The highlife style declined starting in the 1960s, but he remained active for years afterward.
- Marcel Desailly
Marcel Desailly (born September 7, 1968 in Accra, Ghana as "Odenke Abbey") is a former French football player and a former star of the French national football team, with whom he won the 1998 FIFA World Cup and Euro 2000. He also enjoyed a distinguished career at club level with several European clubs.
- Yaw Preko
Yaw Preko (born September 8, 1974 in Accra) is a football striker from Ghana. He has played 68 international matches for the Ghana national team, and was a member of the team that won the bronze medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. His career started in Powerlines, a small Ghanaian club, and his first European club was R.S.C. Anderlecht where he became Belgian champion three times.
- George Owu
George Owu (born 7 july, 1982) is a Ghanaian football player who, as of 2006 was playing for Ashanti Gold SC. He was part of the Ghanaian 2004 Olympic football team, who exited in the first round, having finished in third place in group B. he was the second goal keeper in africa cup in egypt 2006. Goalkeeper George Owu has signed for Egyptian Premier League side Al Masry Club. He moved from AshGold. for about 300 thousand dollars for 3 years
- Abédi Pelé
Abédi Ayew, also known as Abédi "Pelé" is a former Ghana International football player and captain. He was named African Footballer of the Year in 1991, 1992 and 1993. Additionally, Pelé named him as one of the top 125 greatest living footballers in March 2004.
- Peter Ofori-Quaye
Peter Ofori-Quaye (born March 21, 1980 in Accra) is a Ghanaian football striker currently playing for Greek Premier League club OFI Crete. Ofori-Quaye has spent most of his career in the Greek division and has amassed 33 goals in his 10 seasons in the league. Ofori-Quaye is entering the 2nd year of a 3-year contract he signed with OFI Crete from Liberty Professionals in 2005. He was part of the Ghanaian 2000 African Nations Cup team, …
- Kwame Ayew
- Alex Tachie-Mensah
Alexander Tachie-Mensah (born 15 February 1977 in Accra) is an Ghanaian football striker who currently, as of May 2006, plays for FC St. Gallen. He is a member of the national team, and was called up to the 2006 World Cup. Mensah is also a cousin of Daniel Adisi.
- Ahmed Barusso
Ahmed Apimah Barusso (born December 26, 1984 in Accra) is a Ghanaian football central midfielder, currently with AS Roma of Italian Serie A.
- Baba Adamu
Baba Adamu (born October 20, 1979 in Kumasi, Ghana) known occasionally simply by his nickname "Armando", is a Ghanaian International football (soccer) Striker, currently playing for Sakaryaspor of the Turkish Super League. A very gifted, tall, silky and skillful forward, who shoots accurately as well, Baba made his International debut for Ghana against Jamaica on 7 August 1999. He scored for Ghana on his debut.
- Louis Agyemang
Louis Agyemang (born April 4 1983 in Accra) is a Ghanaian football (soccer) player who plays striker for Kaizer Chiefs in the South African Premier Soccer League. He was part of Ghana's national team at the 2006 African Nations Cup in Egypt. *Year joined Chiefs: 2005 *Previous club: Hearts of Oak
- Augustine Ahinful
Augustine Ahinful is a Ghanaian football (soccer) player. In career he played in Germany, Switzerland, Portugal, Italy and in Turkish Premier Super League for Borussia Dortmund, Grasshoppers, União Desportiva de Leiria, Boavista, Venezia, Ankaragücü and Trabzonspor. For Ghana national football team he participated at 1996 Summer Olympics and in 2000 African Cup of Nations.
- Aziz Zakari
Aziz Zakari (born September 2 1976 in Accra, Ghana) is a Ghanaian athlete specializing in the 100 metres. Participating in the 2004 Summer Olympics, he achieved second place in his 100 metres heat, thus making it through to the second round. Heading into the second round, he was victorious in a tough sprint, before achieving qualification from his semi-final. This good form was not able to continue, as he failed to finish in the final, staged on August 22, …
- Malik Buari
Malik Buari (born January 21, 1984 in Accra, Ghana) is a Ghanaian midfielder and left-sided defender currently playing for Nationwide Conference team St Albans City. He was formerly at Fulham (London, England), making his debut against Wigan Athletic on the 23rd of September, 2003. He failed to score in the five first team games he played for Fulham before moving to Woking F.C. on a free transfer.
- Ibrahim Dossey
Ibrahim Dossey is a football goalkeeper from Ghana. He won a bronze medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona with the young Ghanaian team. Since 2001 he has been playing in Romania, mostly for FC Braşov, but also for Rapid Bucureşti. In 2005/06 he was transferred to Pandurii Târgu-Jiu.
- Owusu Ampomah
Owusu Ampomah (born February 6 1985 in Accra) is a Ghanaian footballer, currently playing for German club SC Freiburg.
- Rhian Benson
Rhiannon Afua "Rhian" Benson is a Ghanaian soul and jazz singer, songwriter, and composer. She was born in Accra, Ghana to a Welsh mother, who was a singer, and an Ashanti father, who was a guitarist. She was raised in Ghana, India, and the United Kingdom, where she eventually settled. Benson began playing piano and guitar and writing songs and poetry at an early age.
- Anthony Obodai
Anthony Obodai (born 8 May, 1982 in Accra) is a Ghanian football player, currently playing for RKC Waalwijk.
- Joe Addo
Joe Addo (born September 21, 1971 in Accra) is a former Ghanaian football (soccer) defender, and one-time captain of the Ghana national team. Addo went to the United States to attend college and play soccer at George Mason University. On the club level, Addo played for Cagliari (Italy), VfB Stuttgart and FSV Frankfurt (Germany), Sparta Rotterdam (the Netherlands), Belenenses (Portugal), Ethnikos (Greece), Tampa Bay Mutiny, MetroStars (United States) and Kitchee (Hong Kong).
- Guy Warren
Kofi Ghanaba (born Warren Gamaliel Akwei in Accra on 4 May 1923, later changing his name to Guy Warren of Ghana, and on 1 July 1974, Ghana's Republic Day, ultimately taking the name Ghanaba) is a Ghanaian musician, best known as the inventor of Afro-jazz and as a member of The Tempos. He began his professional career as a drummer with the Accra Rhythmic Orchestra before working with Kwame Nkrumah, the first prime minister and president of the Republic of Ghana.
- Bennard Yao Kumordzi
Bennard Yao Kumordzi (born March 21, 1985 in Accra) is a Ghanaian footballer. He currently plays for Panionios in the Greek Super League. He is an attacking midfielder for his club and has recently made an appearance for Ghana's national team.
- Joseph Afful
Joseph Afful (born July 30, 1979 in Accra, Ghana) is a soccer player, who plays for the Brooklyn Knights of the USL Premier Development League. Afful came to the United States to play college soccer, first with St. Francis College where he was a three time All-Northeast Conference player from 2000 to 2003, and then an Atlantic Soccer Conference player in 2003 with Adelphi University.
- Elvis Hammond
Elvis Zark Hammond (born October 6, 1980 in Accra, Ghana) is a Ghanaian striker who currently plays football for Leicester City in the English Coca-Cola Championship.
- Nana Gbewonyo
Nana Gbewonyo is an actor who played the role of Junior Battle in the film Coach Carter that was released in January 2005. He was born in Accra, Ghana, but moved to California when he was three with his parents. He played college basketball for Washburn University in Kansas and HSU.
- Godfried Aduobe
Godfreid Aduobe (born October 29, 1975 in Accra, Ghana) is a Ghanaian football midfielder who currently plays for Karlsruher SC.
- Éric Akoto
Éric Akoto is a Togolese football defender. On July 10, 2007 he joined NK Interblock Ljubljana. He is a member of the Togolese national team, and was called up to the 2006 World Cup.
- Amma Darko
Amma Darko is an African writer. She was born in Tamale, Ghana, and grew up in Accra. She studied in Kumasi, where she received her diploma in 1980. Then she worked for the Science and Technology Center in Kumasi. During the eighties, for some time in Germany. She has since returned to Accra. Her novels illustrate everyday life in Ghana. Her first novel, “"Beyond the Horizon",” was originally published in German.
- Alexander Tettey
Alexander Banor Tettey (born April 4, 1986 in Accra, Ghana) is a football midfielder who currently plays for Rosenborg in Norway. He is now a naturalized Norwegian, and has been capped for the Norwegian under-18, 19 and 21 national teams. <br> <br>
- Patrick Allotey
Patrick Allotey (December 13, 1978 - June 27, 2007) was a football (soccer) defender from Ghana. Born in Accra, Allotey played five official matches for Feyenoord Rotterdam. He also served Excelsior Rotterdam. Feyenoord scouted Allotey at the 1995 FIFA Under-17 World Championships in Ecuador where Ghana became World Champions. He featured in a team with players like Awudu Issaka, Stephen Appiah and Emanuel Bentil.
- Daniel Ola
Daniel Ola (born 23 November, 1982 in Accra) is a Ghanaian football (soccer) defender.
- Riga Mustapha
Rahamat Riga Mustapha (born October 10, 1981 in Accra, Ghana) is a football (soccer) striker from the Netherlands, who has been playing for Levante UD since the summer of 2005 in the highest Spanish league, La Liga. He previously played for Vitesse Arnhem (1998-2000), RBC Roosendaal (2000-2001), Vitesse Arnhem (2001-2003), and Sparta Rotterdam (2003-2005), for whom he scored 36 goals in two seasons. <br