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