Kwame

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

• Kwame peter Lewis is a black man from Grenada, who attended the Grenada boys secondary school. He was successfully graduated with 6 0levels subject. He is one of the greatest young man in history.
• Kwame Alexander, American author
• Kwame Anthony Appiah, a Ghanaian-British philosopher of semantics and racism
• Kwame Brown, American former basketball player
• Kwame Harris (born 1982), former American football player
• 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 Kilpatrick, former mayor of Detroit, Michigan
• Kwame Nkrumah (originally Francis Nwia Kofi Ngonloma), a Ghanaian politician (and for a time Life President) and one of the founders of Pan-Africanism
• Kwame Raoul, a Democratic member of the Illinois Senate, representing the 13th district since 2004
• Kwame Somburu (Paul Boutelle), an American socialist political activist
• Kwame Tucker, a Bermudian cricketer
• Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael), a Trinidadian-American black activist and leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Black Panther Party
• Osei Kwame Panyin, an 18th-century leader of the Ashanti Confederacy, located in what is today southern and central Ghana

In addition:

• Kwame (Captain Planet), a fictional character in the animated television series Captain Planet and the Planeteers