List of Famous people born in Ghana

Maame Biney is an American short track speed skater who competed in the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang.

Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang is a politician and educationalist who served as Minister for Education in Ghana from February 2013 to January 2017. She is a Full of Professor of Literature. She served as the first female Vice-Chancellor of a state University in Ghana when she took over as Vice-Chancellor of University of Cape Coast. She currently serves as the Chancellor of the Women's University in Africa.

Abedi Ayew, known professionally as Abedi Pele, is a Ghanaian former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder and who served as captain of the Ghana national team. He is regarded as one of the greatest African footballers of all time. He played for several European clubs and found his fame in the French Ligue 1 with Lille and Marseille, the latter where he won the UEFA Champions League in 1993, among other titles. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest players of his generation.

Joshua Buatsi is a British professional boxer who held the British light-heavyweight title in 2019. As an amateur, he won a bronze medal in the light-heavyweight division at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Robert Guy Bathurst is an English actor. Bathurst was born in Gold Coast in 1957, where his father was working as a management consultant. In 1959 his family moved to Ballybrack, Dublin, Ireland and Bathurst attended school in Killiney and later was enrolled at Headfort, an Irish boarding school. In 1966, the family moved to England and Bathurst transferred to Worth School in Sussex, where he took up amateur dramatics. At the age of 18, he read law at Pembroke College, Cambridge and joined the Cambridge Footlights group. After graduating, he took up acting full-time.

Isaac Zion Dogboe is a Ghanaian-British professional boxer who held the WBO junior-featherweight title in 2018.

Kweku Adoboli is a Ghanaian investment manager and former stock trader. He was convicted of illegally trading away US$2 billion (GB£1.3 billion) as a trader for Swiss investment bank UBS. While at the bank he primarily worked on UBS' Global Synthetic Equities Trading team in London where he engaged in what would later be known as the 2011 UBS rogue trader scandal. After serving a prison sentence, he lost several appeals against the Home Office decision to deport him to Ghana.

Souad Adel Faress is a Ghanaian stage, radio, television and film actress based in United Kingdom. She is best known for her portrayal of the solicitor Usha Gupta, in the long-running BBC Radio 4 serial The Archers and for her role as the High Priestess of the Dosh Khaleen in the sixth season of the HBO series Game of Thrones.

Emmanuel Agyenim "Ema" Boateng is a Ghanaian professional footballer who currently plays as a winger for MLS side New England Revolution.

Lisa Marie Kwayie is a German sprinter. She won a bronze medal in the 4 × 100 metres relay at the 2018 European Championships.