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| name = Kwame
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| gender = male
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| name day = Saturday
| region = Ghana
| origin = [[Twi]]
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'''Kwame''' or '''Kwamé''' is a [[Twi]] and [[Akan name|Akan]] [[day name]] and a [[given name]] for a boy born on a Saturday, originating in [[Ghana]].
*[[Osei Kwame Panyin]] - 18th century leader of the [[Ashanti Confederacy]], located in what is today southern and central Ghana
*[[Kwame Nkrumah]] - a Ghanaian politician and for a time [[President for Life|Life President]] (originally Francis Nwia-Kofi Ngonloma) and one of the most influential founders of [[Pan-Africanism]].
*[[Stokely Carmichael|Kwame Ture]] - 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]]
*[[Kwame Kilpatrick|Kwame M. Kilpatrick]], the Mayor of [[Detroit, Michigan]]
*[[Anthony Appiah|Kwame Anthony Appiah]] - a Ghanaian-British philosopher of semantics and racism
*[[Kwame Jackson]] - one of the two final candidates on Donald Trump's American television reality series ''[[The Apprentice (U.S. TV Series)|The Apprentice]]''.
*[[Kwame Kwei-Armah]] - a British actor and presenter
*[[Kwame Brown]] - an American [[basketball]] player in the [[NBA]]
*[[Kwame (Captain Planet character)]], a character in the television series ''Captain Planet and the Planeteers''
*[[Kwamé]] - 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 Tucker]]- Bermudan cricketer
*[[Kwame Raoul]] -Kwame Raoul is a Democratic member of the Illinois Senate, representing the 13th district since his appointment in 2004.
*[[Kwame Bosompem Manu]]- a justice studies student at the University of Ontario intitute of technology.
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