Yaa Asantewaa was a Queenmother and protector of the Golden Stool (i.e. throne) of the Ashanti Kingdom, a human rights advocate and a leader who became famous for leading a major armed Asante resistance in 1900 against British colonialism to defend the Golden Stool.

She has become a global symbol of principle and feminine contribution to the pantheon of heroes at the table of the fight for human dignity and rights in the face of foreign oppression.

Kwame Nkrumah was a Ghanaian politician, political theorist, independence revolutionary against colonial rule and ardent Pan-Africanist. He was the First Prime Minister of Ghana which changed from Gold Coast after independence in 1957. Being an influential advocate of Pan-Africanism , Nkrumah was a founding member of the Organization of African Unity .

Kwame Nkrumah was adjudged the most influential African of the 20th Century by the BBC.

Kofi Annan was a global statesman who was committed throughout his life to the pursuit of a fairer and more peaceful world. During his distinguished career and ten-year leadership of the United Nations as its Secretary-General, he was an ardent champion of peace, sustainable development, human rights and the rule-of-law.

He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize jointly with the United Nations in 2001 for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world.

Azumah Nelson is a Ghanaian former professional boxer who was a two-weight world champion, having held the WBC featherweight title from 1984 to 1987 and the WBC super-featherweight title twice between 1988 and 1997. He once contested for the unified WBC and IBF lightweight titles in 1990. At regional level he held the ABU and Commonwealth featherweight titles between 1980 and 1982. He was widely considered as one of the world greatest boxers of all time and competed from 1979 to 2008. He is currently ranked as the 31st greatest pound for pound boxer of all time by BoxRec.

Osibisa are a Ghanaian-English Afro Rock band, founded in London in 1969 by four expatriate West Africans. Their music is a fusion of African, rock, highlife, Caribbean, jazz rock, funk, Latin and even some traces of R&B etc.

Osibisa was the most successful and longest lived of the African-heritage bands in London and were largely responsible for the establishment of world music and Afro-Rock as a marketable genre.

The original band which featured on the first three studio albums were universally known as The Beautiful Seven.

Dr Ashitey Trebi-Ollennu joined the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 1999 and rose through the ranks to become the leader of the NASA engineering team that designed the Mars Rover robot that landed on the red planet (Mars) in 2021.

Sir David Adjaye OBE is an award winning Ghanaian-British architect known to infuse his artistic sensibilities and ethos for community-driven projects. His ingenious use of materials, bespoke designs and visionary sensibilities have set him apart as one of the leading architects of his generation.

In 2017, Adjaye was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II and was recognized as one of the 100 most influential people of the year by TIME Magazine.

A career diplomat, Ms. Pobee assumed the position with more than 30 years of experience in international affairs and diplomacy in Ghana’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration. Prior to that, she served as Ag. Chief Director of the Foreign Ministry previously Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Ghana to the United Nations from 2015 until 2020. In that position, she performed various special assignments, including as the Chair of the African Group of Ambassadors in New York, Vice-President of the 71st Session of the United Nations General Assembly, Chair of the New York Group of Friends of the African Women Leaders Network, Co-Facilitator of the High-level meeting on Financing for Development 2019, and Co-Chair of the Group of Friends on Gender Parity at the United Nations, among others.

H.E. Quartey Thomas Kwesi is a Ghanaian national with over 35 years of experience as a diplomat. He was elected as the Deputy Chairperson of the African Union Commission. Ambassador Quartey had previously worked as Ghana’s Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and, subsequently, Secretary to the President of Ghana during H.E. Fmr. President John D. Mahama’s government. He had also, as a career diplomat, served in various capacities in Ghana’s Embassies and High Commissions in Cotonou, Cairo, Brussels, Havana, and London.

Francis Kofi Ampenyin Allotey FGA OV was a Ghanaian mathematical physicist.

He became the first Ghanaian to obtain a doctorate in mathematical sciences, earned in 1966. Prof. Francis Allotey was known for the "Allotey Formalism" which arose from his work on soft X-ray spectroscopy.

He was the 1973 recipient of the UK Prince Philip Golden Award for his work in this area. He is founding fellow of the African Academy of Sciences

Abedi Ayew, known internationally 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, the “Black Stars”. He is regarded as one of the greatest African and world class footballers of all time. He played for several European clubs and found fame in the French Ligue 1 with Lille and Marseille, the latter where he won the UEFA Champions League in 1993, the African Player of the Year award three consecutive times (1991–93), among other titles.

Reggie Rockstone (Reginald Yaw Asante Ossei, "the Godfather of Hiplife") is a Ghanaian rapper . He was born in the United Kingdom but lived his early years in Ghana (Kumasi and Accra). Since he pioneered the Hip-Life movement in 1994, he continues to live in Ghana.

He pioneered the Hiplife art form and has played an important role in the development of this uniquely African genre from Ghana's to impact Africa and world music. He raps in Akan Twi and English. In 2004, Rockstone won the Kora Award for the best African video and he has performed on several international stages.

Ghana’s commitment to the promotion of international peace and security is demonstrated by its continuous contribution to UN peacekeeping operations, starting from Congo in the 1960s to the present. Ghana has consistently ranked among the top-ten UN troop-contributing countries and its security personnel are highly respected for their professionalism.

Michael Owusu Addo known professionally as Sarkodie, is a Ghanaian rapper and entrepreneur from Tema. His contributions to the Ghanaian music industry have earned him numerous accolades, including the Vodafone Ghana Music Award for "Artiste of the Decade".

He was announced the first winner of BET's Best International Flow artist at the 2019 BET Hip Hop Awards. He is also considered one of the major proponents of the Azonto genre and one of the most successful African rappers of all time.

Asamoah Gyan is a Ghanaian international professional footballer and the former captain of the Ghanaian national team, the “Black Stars”. Gyan is the all-time leading goalscorer of the Ghana national team, with 51 goals.

He represented Ghana at the 2006, 2010 and 2014 FIFA World Cups. With six (6) goals, he is the top African goalscorer in the history of the World Cup. Gyan also represented Ghana at the 2004 Summer Olympics and in seven Africa Cup of Nations in 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017 and 2019, helping them finish in third-place in 2008 and runner-up in 2010 and 2015.

Ms. Tetteh a barrister who was previously Ghana’s Foreign Minister (2009-2013), as well as Minister for Trade and Industry (2013-2017) and a Member of Parliament, brings to this position years of progressively responsible experience at the national, regional and international levels, including well-honed skills in building consensus among stakeholders and knowledge of the UN, in order to strengthen the partnership between the United Nations and the African Union in the area of peace and security.

In 1998 Ablade Glover received the Flagstar Award by ACRAG (the Arts Critics and Reviewers Association of Ghana), and was also honoured with the distinguished alumni award from the African-American Institute in New York City.

He has received several national and international awards, including the Order of the Volta in Ghana in 2007, the Millennium Excellence Award in 2010 and is a Life Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, London.

Otis Quaicoe’s figuration is built upon a palette where color becomes its own language of transformation, be it social, political or personal. These are images of empowerment and redemption, sophistication and humility, curiosity and quietude. Each figure becomes a symbol of the reclamation of cultural dignity, embracing the idea of origin and personal narrative as it relates to gender and race dynamics. Otis Quaicoe was born in Accra, Ghana and currently resides in Portland, Oregon.

Anthony Yeboah is a Ghanaian former international football striker. He is considered one of the most prolific goal scorers in Ghanaian, African and world football history and gained a reputation for scoring spectacular goals which often featured in Goal of the Month or Goal of the Season competitions in Europe, often celebrated by wagging his index finger towards the crowd. Yeboah is most noted for his time at European clubs like Leeds United and Hamburger SV during the 1990s. He was capped 59 times by Ghana, scoring 29 goals. He won the Bundesliga golden boot on two occasions in 1992–93, 1993–94 playing for Eintracht Frankfurt.

Evelyn Abena Akuaba Appiah, a Ghanaian beauty queen who was crowned Miss Grand International 2020 and Queen Beauty Universe 2016.

Abena started joining pageants when she won Top Model Ghana in 2013 and represented her country in Top Model of the World where she finished in the top 15. She participated later in the Miss Universe 2014 and in the Miss Earth 2019.

Founder and CEO of Take Back The Mic (TBTM) Studios, Derrick N. Ashong (or "DNA") and his team have built a Digital Media platform that powered the launch of the first music competition format born in Africa for export around the world. Derrick Ashong's two-time Emmy finalist digital series, "The World Cup of Hip Hop," evolved into The Mic: Africa, the music competition and docu-series that connects African music, arts and culture with a new generation of fans worldwide.

At the 42nd Annual Telly Awards in 2021, The Mic Africa won gold for television and silver for documentary series.

Kofi Annan was a global statesman who was committed throughout his life to the pursuit of a fairer and more peaceful world. During his distinguished career and ten-year leadership of the United Nations as its Secretary-General, he was an ardent champion of peace, sustainable development, human rights and the rule-of-law.

He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize jointly with the United Nations in 2001 for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world.

Prof. Joy Henrietta Mensah-Bonsu, an academic and lawyer, was the Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General and Head of the Rule of Law Sector of the United Nations in Liberia (UNMIL) from 2007 to 2011. In that capacity, she UNMIL in its on efforts to reconstruct the law-enforcement, legal and judicial sectors of post-conflict Liberia. She has also worked as a Civilian Mentor to the ECOWAS Senior Mission Leadership Course training of the Civilian Component for the ECOWAS Standby Force (ESF), and also on the UN’s Senior Mission Leadership Course.

She further worked on the Review Reference Group for the Project to prepare a ‘Guidance Note on Peace building’ for the United Nations system. She has served as a member of the UN Independent Panel on Peace Operations.

Prof. Mensah-Bonsu has researched and published extensively on Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, Family Law and Children's Rights, been a visiting Lecturer at the Queen’s University Belfast, Northwestern University School of Law, visiting Scholar at Leiden University in the Netherlands and Diplomat-in-Residence at the School of Public and International Affairs of the North Carolina State University. She also served as head of the Legon Centre for International Affairs and Diplomacy (LECIAD) at the University of Ghana.

Prof. Mensah-Bonsu since 2020 been appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Ghana.

Akua Kuenyehia is a Ghanaian academic and lawyer who served as judge of the International Criminal Court from 2003 to 2015. She also served as First Vice-president of the Court. She was one of the only three female African judges at the ICC.

Abraham Nii Attah is a Ghanaian actor, living in the United States. He made his feature film debut in Beasts of No Nation (2015). For his leading role of child soldier Agu, he was awarded the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Male Actorat the 72nd Venice International Film Festival.

In 2017, he appeared in the Marvel Studios film Spider-Man: Homecoming.

Yaa Gyasi is a Ghanaian-American novelist. Her debut novel Homegoing, published in 2016, won her, at the age of 26, the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Award for best first book, the PEN/Hemingway Award for a first book of fiction, the National Book Foundation's "5 under 35" honors for 2016 and the American Book Award.

She was also awarded a Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Literature in 2020.

Isufu "Ike" Quartey is a Ghanaian former professional boxer who competed from 1988 to 2006. He held the WBA welterweight title from 1994 to 1998, and challenged once for the IBF junior-middleweight title in 2000.

Quartey turned professional in 1988, a day short of his nineteenth birthday. He started his boxing career under the guidance of Yoofi Boham, without doubt the most successful manager in Ghana, and also father-in-law of former World boxing champion Azumah Nelson.

Adjetey Sowah, he hails from Teshie a suburb of Accra. He won the National Dancing championship in the 1980’s and later travelled to the United Kingdom to win the World Dancing Championship in 1986.

While the world dithered on its moral “responsibility to protect” during the Rwandan genocide in 1994, a contingent of 400 troops from Ghana conscientiously ignored instructions from the UN Security Council to withdraw from that dire theatre of conflict, and stayed with the beleaguered UN Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR), under the Ghanaian Deputy Force Commander of UNAMIR Brigadier-General Henry Kwami Anyidoho, throughout the period. Although inadequately equipped and often outnumbered, Ghanaian troops under General Anyidoho guarded refugees, calmed down genocidal militiamen and did their best to provide security for civilians fleeing the 100 days of carnage that had engulfed Rwanda 26 years ago. Five (5) Ghanaian soldiers were killed or wounded, but by standing their ground the contingent is thought to have helped to save about 30,000 lives.

David Kotei (originating from the Kotei family, born 7 December 1950 in Accra, Ghana), popularly called "D.K. Poison", is a former world featherweight boxing champion between 1975 and 1976. He is the first Ghanaian professional boxer to win a world title.

Lieutenant General Erskine served as the first Force Commander of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) from 1978 to 1981, a particularly difficult time for south Lebanon. He led UNIFIL in the initial implementation of Security Council resolution 425 (1978).

Dr. Mohamed Ibn Chambas is an internationally distinguished Ghanaian diplomat, lawyer, politician and academic who has served in various high-profile roles as an international civil servant since 2006. He last served as the United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS) from April 2014 to April 2021. Previously, he served as the UN SRSG and Head of the Joint UN-AU Peacekeeping Mission in Darfur in Sudan (2012-2014), the Secretary-General of the African, Caribbean and Pacific ACP) Group of States in Brussels (2010-2012) and the Executive Secretary of the Secretariat of the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS, 2002–2006). He was First Deputy Speaker of the Ghanaian Parliament (1993–1994), and thereafter was appointed Deputy Foreign Minister until 1996 when he was made Deputy Minister of Education.

Martha Bissah is a Ghanaian athlete who won a gold medal in the 800m race girls’ at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing, China with a time of 2:04.90. In February 2017, she won four gold medals at the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Indoor and Track & Field Championships. Bissah attended Aduman Senior High School in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. In December 2020, she completed a degree in Business with emphasis in Management at the Norfolk State University in the United States. In May 2021, she graduated with a second degree in General Business/Marketing at Norfolk State University.

Aerospace scientist Dr. Isaiah Blankson was born on September 28, 1944 in Cape Coast, Ghana. He received his B.S. degree in 1969, M.S. degree in 1970, and Ph.D. degree in 1973, each in aeronautics and astronautics, from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). At NASA, his contributions to the development of concepts for high-speed air breathing propulsion resulted in many awards and patents.

Included on the list of patents: the Exoskeletal Gas-Turbine Engine (U.S. patent 6,393,831-B1, 2002), and the Magneto-Hydrodynamic Power (MHD) Controlled Gas Turbine (U.S. patent 6,696,774-B1, 2004). In addition, he co-developed a Method for Weakening Shockwave Strength on Vehicles in Supersonic Atmospheric Flight (2015, US Patent 9,016,632 B1).

Blankson has received numerous awards, including the1969 Luis de Florez Award for excellence in engineering from MIT, the NASA Exceptional Service Medal in 2002, National Emerald Honors Scientist of the Year Award in 2006, two United States Presidential Rank Awards: The 2012 Distinguished Senior Professional Award; and the 2006 Meritorious Senior Professional Award. In 2018, he was awarded the NASA Exceptional Technology Achievement Medal in recognition of his development of Nonequilibrium Plasma technology for aerospace and terrestrial applications.

Dr. Thomas Mensah is the First African to be inducted into the US Academy of Inventors. Ghanaian scientist, and is known globally as one of the great minds of the 21st century. He was recently admitted into the American Academy of Inventors, the first African to receive this honour. Ghanaian scientist, Dr Thomas Mensah, added yet another accolade to his bulging CV by being inducted into the United States’ elite National Academy of Inventors (NAI). In addition to being an accomplished chemical engineer, leading the field of fibre optics and nanotechnology, and a front runner in the research of material with applications in aeronautics, Dr Mensah has at least 25 Issued and pending patents to his name.

Madame Annie Ruth Jiagge (née Baëta; 7 October 1918 – 12 June 1996), also known as Annie Baëta Jiagge, was a Ghanaian lawyer, judge and women's rights activist. She was the first woman in Ghana and the Commonwealth of Nations to become a judge. She was a principal drafter of the Declaration on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (in her capacity as President of the United Nations Commission of on the status of Women from 1962-72, she was the author of the basic draft of the Declaration) and a co-founder of the organisation that became Women’s Women Banking. She was also the first African woman to be a World Council of Churches president (1975-1983) and was also a moderator of the WCC’s Commission on the Programme to Combat Racism. The city of Geneva, in Switzerland, is currently (in 2021) renaming a street after her.

Kofi Nahaje Sarkodie-Mensah is a Ghanaian-American professional wrestler currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the Raw brand under the ring name Kofi Kingston. From 2009–2013, Kingston became a four-time Intercontinental Champion and a three-time United States Champion. In 2014, he formed The New Day with Big E and Xavier Woods. The trio went on to break the record for the longest Tag Team Championship reign in WWE history when they held the WWE Raw Tag Team Championship from August 2015 to December 2016, while defending the titles under the Freebird rule. All totaled, Kingston is a 14-time Tag Team Champion in WWE.

In April 2019, Kingston defeated Daniel Bryan at WrestleMania 35 to win the WWE Championship, giving him 22 total championships in WWE.He is the only African-born world champion in WWE history. His WWE Championship win also made him WWE's 30th Triple Crown Champion and 20th overall Grand Slam Champion (13th under the current format).