Kwakye is a name. Notable people with the name include:

Given name

* Kwakye Addo (born 1951), Ghanaian politician *

Kwakye Darfour Eric Kwakye Darfour is a Ghanaian politician and a member of the New Patriotic Party in Ghana. He is the Eastern Regional minister of Ghana. He was appointed by President Nana Addo Danquah Akuffo-Addo in January 2017 and was approved by the Me ...

(born 1957), Ghanaian politician

Middle name

* Felix Kwakye Ofosu ( 2018–19), Ghanaian politician *

Kwabena Kwakye Anti Kwabena Kwakye Anti was a lecturer and a Ghanaian politician. He was a minister of state in the Second Republic of Ghana. Early life and education Kwabena was born on 23 November 1923 at Akim Awisa near Akim Oda in the Eastern Region. His ea ...

(born 1923), Ghanaian lecturer and politician

Surname

Benjamin Kwakye Benjamin Kwakye (born 7 January 1967) is a Ghanaian novelist and lawyer. His first novel, ''The Clothes of Nakedness'', won the 1999 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, best first book, Africa, and has been adapted for radio as a BBC Play of the Week. H ...

(born 1967), Ghanaian novelist and lawyer *

Benjamin Samuel Kofi Kwakye Benjamin Samuel Kofi Kwakye is a former Ghanaian police officer and was the Inspector General of Police of the Ghana Police Service The Inspector General of Police (IGP) is the most senior Police Officer in Ghana. The IGP is appointed by the Presid ...

( 1978–79), Ghanaian police official * Isaac Kwakye (born 1977), Ghanaian footballer * Jeanette Kwakye (born 1983), English sprinter and sports broadcaster

Other

Jacob Kwakye-Maafo Jacob Kenneth Kofi Kwakye-Maafo (born 1940), also known as Nana Ohemeng Awere V, is a Ghanaian physician and a surgeon who specialises in Obstetrics and Gynecology and traditional ruler of Assin Nsuta and the chief executive of the West End Hosp ...

(born 1940), Ghanaian physician *

Peter Yaw Kwakye-Ackah Peter Yaw Kwakye-Ackah (born 15 June 1957) is a Ghanaian politician and member of the Seventh Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana representing the Amenfi Central Constituency in the Western Region on the ticket of the National Democr ...

(born 1957), Ghanaian politician {{given name, type=both