- Ethan Zuckerman
Ethan Zuckerman is an activist and researcher focused on information technology and information development. Based at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, he is the co-founder of Global Voices , an international web-based community of bloggers and citizen journalists dedicated to broadening intercultural understanding and improving global journalism.
- 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.
- Jerry Rawlings
Flight Lieutenant (Retired) Jerry John Rawlings was twice the head of state of Ghana. He first appeared on the Ghanaian political scene on May 15, 1979 when an unsuccessful coup d'état he led resulted in his arrest, imprisonment, and a death sentence. But before he could be executed, his friends in the Ghana military led by Major Boakye Djan overthrew the then military government of General Fred Akuffo in a bloody coup on June 4, 1979.
- Junior Agogo
Manuel "Junior" Agogo (born 1 August, 1979 in Accra, Ghana) is a football (soccer) player. He is a striker currently playing for Nottingham Forest.
- 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, …
- 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.
- Reggie Rockstone
Reggie Rockstone (Reginald Osei, "the Godfather of Hiplife") is a rapper of Ghanaian descent, born in Britain and raised in Ghana; but lived a few years in the United States. He has been living in Ghana continuously since he pioneered the Hip-Life movement in 1994. He pioneered the Hiplife artform and has played an important role in the development of this uniquely African genre in Ghana's capital Accra. He raps in Twi and English.
- 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.
- Mzbel
Mzbel (Nana Ekua Amoah) is a Ghanian musician. Her songs include 16 Years. She was born in Accra on December 26, 1979.
- 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.
- 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.
- Edward Mahama
Edward Nasigre Mahama (b. 15 April 1945) is a Ghanaian doctor and politician. Born in the village of Sumniboma (northern Ghana) in 1945, Mahama attended Nalerigu Primary and Middle School from 1953 to 1959. He then attended Secondary School in Tamale from 1961 to 1965. Later that year, he was admitted to the University of Ghana in Legon and graduated in 1972 with a medical degree. Mahama went back to Nalerigu as a medical doctor in September 1973 and four-years later, …
- 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, …
- Nana
Nana Kwame Abrokwa (born in 5 October 1968 in Accra, Ghana) is a German rapper and DJ, performing under the pseudonyms Nana or Darkman / Nana. Nana is not an actual first name, but a Ghanese title of nobility. His most important achievement came in the second half of the 1990's, when his style was characterized as "euro-rap" and his lyrics focused on the relationship with God, with his family, or on topics like racism and Holocaust.
- Cheikh Tidiane Gadio
Cheikh Tidiane Gadio (born 16 September 1956 in Saint-Louis, Senegal) has been the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Senegal since April 2000. In November 2002 he became Minister of State in charge of Foreign Affairs. At the African Union summit in Accra, Ghana in early July 2007, where leaders discussed whether a United States of Africa should be created immediately or gradually, Gadio expressed Senegal's stance in favor of immediate creation, …
- 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.
- Derek Boateng
Derek Boateng (born 2 May 1983 in Accra, Ghana) is a midfielder for Beitar Jerusalem FC. Originally a striker, Boateng has moved further down the pitch and is currently considered a defensive midfielder in his club, due to the position slightly behind the other midfielders he tends to have during the game. While he is not a traditional holding midfielder, his ability to hold the ball and make the opening passes makes him suitable for that position.
- William Boyd
William Boyd, CBE (born 7 March, 1952 in Accra, Ghana) is a contemporary Scottish novelist and screenwriter.
- Steven Feld
Steven Feld is an American ethnomusicologist anthropologist, and linguist, who worked for many years with the Kaluli (Bosavi) people of Papua New Guinea. He earned a MacArthur Fellowship in 1991. He graduated with a BA cum laude at Hofstra University in anthropology in 1971. He first went to the Bosavi territory in 1976, accompanied by anthropologist Edward L. Schieffelin, whose recordings of the Bosavi inspired him to pursue this work.
- Kwame Pianim
Kwame Pianim is a celebrated Ghanaian business economist and investment consultant. He is married to Dutch woman Cornelia Pianim. With her he has son Elkin Kwesi Pianim (born 1970), a Vassar College trained corporate financer. After ten years as a political prisoner he made a 1996 bid to run for the presidency of Ghana. Switching gears he found success as a businessman in Accra.
- 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.
- Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng
Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng is a Ghanaian cardiothoracic surgeon who is the Chief Executive Officer of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra. He is also the Director of Ghana's National Cardiothoracic Center, and President of the Ghana Heart Foundation and the Ghana Red Cross Society. Frimpong-Boateng was elected a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences in December 2002.
- Joshua Clottey
Joshua Clottey (born in 1977) is a Welterweight boxer who hails from Accra, Ghana, but now lives in the Bronx, New York. He was, as of 2006, a world-ranked boxer. On December 2, 2006, Clottey was a contender for world boxing champion, but he broke his hand in the fourth round of his first title try. He ended up losing a closer then expected unanimous decision to world boxing organization champion Antonio Margarito.
- 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.
- Efua Sutherland
Efua Sutherland (1924-06-27—1996-01-21) was a Ghanaian playwright, poet and children's author. She founded the Ghana Drama Studio, the Ghana Society of Writers, the Ghana Experimental Theatre, and a community project called the Kodzidan (Story House). She was an influential figure in the establishment of modern Ghanaian theatre, and helped to establish the study of African performance traditions at university level. Efua Sutherland was born on 1924-06-27 in Cape Coast, …
- Kae Sun
Kae Sun or Kwaku Darko-Mensah (born 1982 in Accra, Ghana) is a Ghanaian singer, songwriter, poet and rapper based in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. His debut LP, "Soliloquy," won a 2006 Hamilton Music Award for <b> Hip-Hop Recording Of The Year.</b> He is currently working on a follow-up LP, due out in June 2007.
- 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, …
- 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.
- Anthony Obodai
Anthony Obodai (born 8 May, 1982 in Accra) is a Ghanian football player, currently playing for RKC Waalwijk.
- Godwin Attram
Godwin Attram (born August 7, 1980 in Accra) is a Ghanaian football (soccer) player for the Al-Shabab football club based in Riyadh.
- 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.
- 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
- Justice Akrofi
The Most Reverend Dr. Justice Ofei Akrofi (b. 1942) is the Anglican Bishop of Accra (Ghana) and Archbishop (primate) of the Church of the Province of West Africa. He was elected to that position in 2003.
- 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.
- Arthur Wharton
Arthur Wharton, (October 28 1865 - December 13 1930) was the first black professional association football player in the world.
- Simon Mol
Simon Mol (November 6, 1973 in Buea, Cameroon) is pen name of Simon Moleke Njie, a Cameroon-born journalist, writer and political activist, known mainly in Poland.
- Charles Quansah
Charles Papa Kwabena Ebo Quansah (b. 1964) is a convicted Ghanaian serial killer who was arrested in February 2000 for the murder of his girlfriend Joyce Boateng. While in custody, Quansah was subsequently charged with the murder of another woman, Akua Serwaa who was found strangled near Kumasi Sports Stadium, in Kumasi on January 19, 1996 and subsequently confessed to the strangulation deaths of nine women in the capital city of Accra.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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, …