Cape Coast - Notable Cape Coasters

Notable Cape Coasters

  • J. E. Casely Hayford 1866-1930; author, lawyer, politician and educator.
  • Rev. Dr. Philip Quarcoo: 1741-1816; first African clergy of the Church of England.
  • Dr. Samuel George Duker: 1905-1994; LRCP Edin LRCS Edin LRFPS Glasg; pioneering physician
  • Hon. Robert Hutchison: 1828-1863; statesman, soldier, philanthropist.
  • Jacob Wilson-Sey alias Kwaa Bonyin: 1832-1902; millionaire, philanthropist, founding member of the Aborigines' Rights Protection Society.
  • Hon. John Sarbah: 1834-1892; educationist, merchant, industrialist.
  • Rev. Mark Christian Hayford: 1863-1935; author, founder of Gold Coast Baptist Church and the Christian Army of the Gold Coast.
  • Rev. Samuel Richard Brew Attoh-Ahuma: 1863-1921; clergyman, nationalist, pioneering Pan-Africanist.
  • John Mensah-Sarbah 1864-1910; barrister, author, published Fanti Customary Laws.
  • Charles Emmanuel Graves: 1884-1929; musicologist, composer.
  • Sir James Henley Coussey, KBE: 1895-1958; High Court judge, chairman of the Coussey Commission, president of the West Africa Court of Appeal.
  • Kofi Bentsi-Enchill: 1895-1948; textiles tycoon, philanthropist.
  • Dr. Henry Mercer-Ricketts: 1895-1980; MB ChB Edin; pioneering physician.
  • Berempon Kwadwo: 1701-1777; merchant, founder of various settlements.
  • King John Aggery Essien: 1809-1899; King of Cape Coast, pioneer Pan-Africanist.
  • Chief James Robert Thompson: 1810-18-86; pioneering educationist.
  • Hon. Francis Chapman Grant: 1823-1889; founding member of the Fanti Confederation; cousin of Ulysses Grant.
  • Thomas Frederic Edward Jones: 1850-1927; petitioned Queen Victoria about Lands Bill.
  • Hon. James Cheetham: 1834-1902; merchant, member of the Legislative Council of the Gold Coast.
  • Rev. Andrew William Parker: 1840-1912; conscientious nationalist, fought in the Ashanti Expedition.
  • Joseph Peter Brown: 1843-1932; patriot, statesman.
  • Prince James Hutton Brew: 1844-1915; solicitor.
  • Henry Van Hein: 1858-1928; President of the Aboriginal Rights Protection Society.
  • Hon. William Ward-Brew, OBE: 1878-1943; lawyer, VP of Aborigines' Rights Protection Society.
  • George Edward Moore: 1879-1950; recipient of the Ashanti Medal, executive member of the Aborigines' Rights Protection Society.
  • John Coleman de-Graft Johnson: 1884-1956; secretary of Native Affairs, anthropologist.
  • Prophet Jemisimiham Jehu-Appiah: 1892-1948; founder of Musama Disco Christo Church in Africa.
  • Hon. Nana Amenfi III, CBE 1892-1951; nationalist.
  • Hon. Jacob Kwesi Bart-Plange: 1925-1952; politician, youngest member of the Gold Coast Legislative Council.
  • William Esuman Gwira Kobina Sekyi: 1892-1956; lawyer, politician, author.
  • Peter Turkson: 1948-; Cardinal-Archbishop of Cape Coast.
  • Kofi Annan: 1938-; Diplomat, former UN Secretary General
  • Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur:1951-;current Vice President of the Republic of Ghana.

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