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ACCRA
Most Famous People Born in Accra, Ghana
- Notable people
- 698
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- Median birth year
- 1984
- Most distinctive
- Rapper 14.4×
A post-independence football city in the purest sense, and one where the Boxer bench, at better than twelve times the global baseline, does something almost as heavy as the Football one. The Rapper cluster gives it the contemporary Accra beat the Black Stars generation grew up on, and the Sprint cohort slots in behind like a relay team waiting its turn.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Accra during each.
Notable Births by Decade
Click a decade to filter the list below. Peak: 1980s with 207 notable births.
What Accra Is Known For
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Football is Accra's biggest profession — 56% of all notables (389).
Accra over-indexes on rapper — 14.4× the global rate.
Accra under-produces politician — only 0.3× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Accra's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
- Sports
- Music
- Politics & Law
- Film & TV
- Writing
- Art & Design
- Other
- Filtered to 1910s Clear ×
Joseph Arthur Ankrah
1915 - 1992
E. T. Mensah
1919 - 1996
Samuel Azu Crabbe
1918 - 2005
Jacob Hackenburg Griffiths-Randolph
1914 - 1986
John Coleman DeGraft-Johnson
1919 - 1977
Desmond Buckle
1910 - 1964
Emmanuel Evans-Anfom
Born 1919
Joe-Fio Neenyann Meyer
Born 1918
Thomas Mends Kodwo-Mercer
1916 - 2003