The following is a list of people from Ghana:

• Ignatius Kutu Acheampong, former military dictator
• Freddy Adu, Ghana-born American soccer prodigy
• Akwasi Afrifa, former president
• Ama Ata Aidoo, writer
• Fred Akuffo , former president
• Edward Akufo-Addo, former president
• Joseph Arthur Ankrah, former president
• Kofi Annan, UN Secretary-General
• Joseph Appiah , politician
• Ayi Kwei Arma , social critic
• Yaa Asantewaa, anti-colonial resistance leader
• Kofi Awoonor, writer
• Paul Boateng, British politician
• Kofi Busia , prime minister and author
• J.B. Danquah , political leader
• Marcel Desailly, Ghana-born French footballer
• John Kufuor, liberal president
• John Atta Mills , politician
• Azumah Nelson, world champion boxer
• Kwame Nkrumah, founder of Pan-Africanism
• Jerry Rawlings, former president