Kwame

Kwame
Gender	male
Name day	Saturday
Origin
Word/Name	Twi
Region of origin	Ghana

Kwame or Kwamé is a Twi and Akan day name given to a boy born on a Saturday, originating in Ghana. People with this name include:

• Osei Kwame Panyin, an 18th century leader of the Ashanti Confederacy, located in what is today southern and central Ghana
• Kwame Anthony Appiah, a Ghanaian-British philosopher of semantics and racism
• Kwame Brown, an American basketball player in the NBA
• Kwamé Holland, an American rapper who enjoyed brief popularity during the golden age of hip hop; reemerged as a music producer named K1 Million
• Kwame Jackson, one of the two final candidates on Donald Trump's American television reality series The Apprentice.
• Kwame M. Kilpatrick, a former Mayor of Detroit, Michigan
• Kwame Boatwright, a North Carolina State sophomore student and track athlete
• Kwame Nkrumah, a Ghanaian politician and for a time Life President (originally Francis Nwia-Kofi Ngonloma) and one of the most influential founders of Pan-Africanism.
• Kwame Raoul, a Democratic member of the Illinois Senate, representing the 13th district since his appointment in 2004.

• Kwame Tucker, a Bermudan cricketer
• Kwame Ture, the name adopted by Stokely Carmichael, a Trinidadian-American Black activist and leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Black Panther Party to honor Kwame Nkrumah and Ahmed Sékou Touré

In addition:

• Kwame (Captain Planet), a character in the television series Captain Planet and the Planeteers
• Kwame Monroe, an American Graffetti artists who penned works like "Poverty & Buxom". His works appeared in the Brooklyn Museum in the Summer of 2006.
• Kwame Of London, a poor aristocrat that lives in london, who to date has released 3 albums