List of alumni of Accra Academy

An alumnus of the Accra Academy is referred to as an Accra Aca Old Boy. Article 4 of the constitution of the Accra Academy Old Boys' Association sets the parameters for joining the association as follows:

1. Membership of the association shall in general be open to all past students of the Accra Academy since its foundation on 20th July, 1931.

2. A past student of the Accra Academy qualifies for admission into the membership of the association if he has attended the school for at least one year.^[1]

Mrs. Beatrice Abla Lokko, the first Headmistress of the academy, was not enrolled at the school but was nevertheless a paid up member of the association. Charles McArther Emmanuel aka Chuckie Taylor, son to former Liberian President Charles Taylor, was enrolled at the academy but later dismissed by administrators on grounds of possessing drugs and weapons.^[2]

Alumni

Academia

• Rexford S. Ahima, MD, PhD, FACP, FTOS (Class of 1976; 1978) – professor of medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
• Richard Damoah, Ph.D. (Bleo '96) – scientist at NASA
• Lebrecht Wilhelm Fifi Hesse (Bleo '54) – the first Black African Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University^[3] and former Director-General of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation^[4]
• Michael McClelland (attended 1970 to 1972) – professor of microbiology and molecular genetics, University of California, Irvine^[5]
• Richard Orraca-Tetteh – pioneer in food science and nutrition in Africa; former professor of nutrition and food science at the University of Ghana^[6]
• Samuel Quainoo – professor of political science at East Stroudsburg University, United States^[7]
• Frank Gibbs Torto – former professor of chemistry at the University of Ghana^[8]
• Daniel A. Wubah (Class of 1977; 1979) – Professor of Biology and Provost at Washington and Lee University, United States^[9]
• Abdul Aziz Yakubu (class of 1977; 1979) – professor of mathematics, Howard University^[10]

Activism

• Adjoa Acquaah-Harrison – founder and board chairwoman of WingSpan International USA^[11]
• Alexander Banful (Bleo '72) – CEO of the Ghana Social Marketing Foundation^[12]

Athletics and sports

• Randy Abbey – public relations officer of the Ghana Football Association (GFA)
• Lee Addy – footballer
• N. A. Adjin-Tettey (Bleo '51) – former Chairman of the Ghana Athletic Association
• Godfried Aduobe – former Black Stars football player and KSC professional player
• Owusu Afriyie – footballer
• Prince Koranteng Amoako – former football player, Black Stars and Kumasi Asante Kotoko
• Ohene Djan (Bleo '43) – first Director of the Ghana Football Association
• Asamoah Gyan – footballer^[13]
• John Myles-Mills – former national athlete and African 200m silver medallist
• Leo Myles-Mills – former national athlete, Ghana 100m record holder of 9.99s; African 4X100m gold medallist
• Princeton Owusu-Ansah – former football player, Black Stars, Ashanti Gold SC and Accra Hearts of Oak

Banking

• John Saka Addo – former Governor of the Bank of Ghana^[14]
• Felix Nyarko-Pong (Bleoo '78) – Chief Executive Officer uniBank (Ghana) Limited

Business

• Felix Addo (Bleo '73) – Country Senior Partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Ghana^[15]
• Nathan Kwabena Adisi (aka Bola Ray) (Bleo '96) – CEO of Starr FM and Empire Entertainments^[16]
• Ernest Amartey-Vondee (Bleo '78) – President of the Actuarial Society of Ghana (ASG) and CEO of the Ghana Healthcare Company^[17]
• Charles Alexander Iddrisu Cofie – CEO of Unilever Ghana^[18]
• Moses Cofie (Bleo '83) – CEO/Lead Consultant, Leaders & Mentors International
• Charles Ayensu Darku (Bleo '75) – General Manager, Tullow Oil Ghana Ltd
• Harry Dodoo (Bleo '38) – former Chairman and Managing Director of the Ghana Cocoa Marketing Board
• Sulemanu Koney – Ag CEO of the Ghana Chamber of Mines^[19]
• Ignace Hego Kwame (Bleo '95) – CEO of 4syte TV
• Stephen Stanley Quaye (Bleo '90) – CEO of SEF Ventures Ltd; Executive Director of Rehoboth Petroleum Ltd. (Goodness Energy Ltd)
• Constance Swaniker – creative arts designer^[20]
• Wilson Tei (Bleo '68) – MD of Provident Life Assurance Company Ltd; Chairman of the Accra Academy Board of Governors^[21]

Chieftaincy

• Nii Kotey Amon III (Bleo '71) – Asere Djaasetse; Ghana’s former ambassador to Morocco, Head of Mission in Brussels, and envoy to Germany^[22]
• Nana Awuah Darko Ampem – former Nkosuohene of Ashanti Juaso; the first Ghanaian Captain of the Accra Polo Club, founded Marine and General Insurance Brokers; the first indigenous insurance company in Ghana and later Vanguard Assurance
• Neeyi Ghartey (Bleo '75) – Paramount Chief of Winneba
• Osagyefo Nana Kuntunkununku II (Bleo '62) – 34th Okyenhene and Paramount Chief of the Akyem Abuakwa Traditional Area:1976/1999
• Nana Nkuah Okomdom II (Samuel Appiah) – Paramount Chief of the Sefwi Wiawso Traditional Area in the Western Region from 1997 to 2011; former lecturer at Lund University; former CEO of Liberty FM at Sefwi Wiawso; former head of the Scandia Cab and Timber Company Limited^[23]
• Emmanuel Noi Omaboe (Nana Wereko Ampem II) (Bleo '50) – former Gyaasehene of Akuapem Traditional Area; former Omanhene of Amanokrom; first non-Head of State Chancellor of the University of Ghana, Legon; former government statistician^[24][25][26]

Entertainment

• Reginald Kojo Ainooson (aka Reggie Zippy) – musician^[27]
• Joshua Alphonso Tetteh Cheataa-Laryea (aka Pastor Josh Laryea) – musician^[27]
• John William Hansen (Bleo '47) – musician, founder of the Ramblers International Band^[28]
• Nat Larbi (aka Borax) – musician^[29]
• Emmanuel Mallet (aka Zap Mallet) – sound engineer^[30]
• Daniel Tetteh Nettey (aka Danny Nettey) – musician^[31]
• Augustine Osei-Wusu (aka C-Zar) – musician^[27]

Law

• Nicholas Yaw Boafo Adade (Bleo '46) – former supreme court judge^[32] and former Attorney General of Ghana under the NLC^[33][34]
• Emmanuel Nii Akwei Addo – Director of the International Law Division of the Attorney-General's Department and Ministry of Justice; former appeal court Judge; former member of International Law Commission of the United Nations, forty-ninth session (1997-to fifty-eighth session (2006); first Ghanaian and African to stay that long; United Nations Independent Expert on the Situation of Human Rights in the Sudan^[35]
• Edward Doe Adjaho (Bleo '77) – 11th Speaker of Ghana's parliament^[36]
• Ebenezer Ako Adjei (Bleo '37) – founder member of the United Gold Coast Convention^{[37][38][39][40]}
• Peter Ala Adjetey (Bleo '51) – 8th Speaker of Ghana's Parliament^[41][42]
• Daniel Francis Annan (Bleo '45) – 7th Speaker of Ghana's Parliament^[43]
• Fred Kwasi Apaloo (Bleo '42) – 6th Chief Justice of Ghana^[44]
• Paul Yaw Boateng (Bleo '68) – UK's first black Cabinet Minister, Chief Secretary to the Treasury (UK), member of the House of Lords (UK))^[45][46][47]
• Samuel Azu Crabbe (Bleo '39) – 5th Chief Justice of Ghana^[48][49]
• Vincent Cyril Richard Arthur Charles Crabbe (Bleo '39) – retired supreme court judge and former Professor of Law at the University of West Indies^[50][51]
• Jones Victor Mawulorm Dotse – active supreme court judge^[52]
• George Lamptey (Bleo '37) – former supreme court judge^[53]
• Gustav Koranteng-Addow (Bleo '39) – former supreme court judge and former Attorney General of Ghana under the SMC^[34][54]
• George Commey Mills-Odoi – first Ghanaian Attorney General of the Republic of Ghana, retired supreme court judge, first Ghanaian to hold the dual offices of Solicitor-General and Director of Public Prosecutions^[55]
• Betty Mould-Iddrisu (Bleoo '73 A/L) – first female Attorney General of Ghana
• Walter Samuel Nkanu Onnoghen (Nigeria) – active supreme court judge^[56][57]
• Nana Kwame Akuoko Sarpong (Bleo '57) – Omanhene of the Agogo Traditional Area^[58]
• Edward Kwame Wiredu – 10th Chief Justice of Ghana^[59]

Media

• Earl Ankrah
• Kofi Kum Bilson – chartered accountant; radio presenter^[60]
• Rayborn Bulley (Bleo '74) – journalist at Ghana Broadcasting Corporation
• Stephen Stanley Quaye (Bleo '90) – media consultant, oil and gas business executive
• Ben Ephson – Managing Editor of the Daily Dispatch
• Derek Karikari – journalist at The Associated Press
• Israel Laryea – news editor and anchor, TV and radio at Multimedia Broadcasting Limited
• Akwasi Sarpong (Bleo '95) – journalist at BBC World Service

Medicine

• Emmauel Quaye Acheampong (Bleo '51) – former Dean of the Ghana Medical School^[61]
• Hutton Ayikwei Addy (Bleoo '51)^[62]
• Rexford S. Ahima, MD, PhD, FACP, FTOS (Class of 1976; 1978) – Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Robert Yartey Mensa Annan – physician^[63]
• Samuel Gepi Attee – physician
• William Godson Bruce-Konuah – physician^[62]
• Dr. Bernard Tei Dornoo (Bleo '84) – Board Chair of the African Palliative Care Association^[15]
• J.A.O.T. Mustafa – first neurosurgeon in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Nii Otu Nartey – CEO of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital
• Cornelius Odarquaye Quarcoopome (Bleo '43) – first Ghanaian eye specialist^[64]
• Kwei Quartey – medical doctor and writer, Pasadena, California^[65]

Military

• Joseph Narh Adinkra – Chief of Staff of the Ghana Army from 31 March 2009 to 4 April 2013^[66]
• Joseph Arthur Ankrah (Bleo '37) – first Chief of Ghana Army Staff; second Head of State of Ghana^[67][68]
• Neville Alexander Odartey-Wellington – former Army Commander and member of the Supreme Military Council of Ghana
• Edward Kwaku Utuka – former Border Guards Commander and member of the Supreme Military Council I&II^[69]

Ministers of State

• Chris Kpodo – Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs
• Nathan Quao (Bleo '35) – former Minister for foreign affairs and presidential advisor^[70]
• Harry Sawyerr – organiser and later the National Co-ordinator of the Association of Recognised Professional Bodies from 1971 to 1979; former MP for Osu Klottey Constituency; Minister of Transport and Communications from 1979 to 1981; former Minister for Education^[71]
• Betty Mould-Iddrisu (Bleoo '73 A/L) – Minister for Education

Police

• John Willie Kofi Harlley – first Inspector General of Police (IGP) of the Ghana Police Service

Writers

• Amu Djoleto – author of The Strange Man (1967), Money Galore (1975), and Hurricane of Dust (1987), among many other novels, short stories, and poems^[72]
• Ellis Ayitey Komey^[73][74]
• CNN Lokko – author of Honeymoon, Homecoming, Adventures of Elizabeth Sam, and Trinity High among other children's, young adult, and adult books
• Kwei Quartey – medical doctor and writer, Pasadena, California^[65]

Others

• Samuel Anang Ababio – CEO of the National Pension Regulatory Authority and National Secretary of the Pensioners Association of Ghana^[75]
• Kwaku Aning (Bleo '60) – Deputy Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency
• Benjamin Aryee – CEO of Minerals Commission
• Reginald Nii Bi Ayi-Bonte (Bleo '82) – former member of Parliament for the Odododiodo Constituency^[76]
• Ebenezer Quashie Blavo (Bleo '44) – former Youth Policy Advisor to the Government of Jamaica^[76]
• Alhaji M. Billy Brimah – member of the Council of Muslim Chiefs
• Habteselassie Ebenezer Nii Amu First-Quao – at age 28, seven years after 1972 graduation,became first black African English translator at the UN, working from hexagonal French and Castilian Spanish to English
• Alex Mould (Bleoo '78) – CEO of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), former Ag CEO of the National Petroleum Authority^[77]
• John Henry Newman – former Chief of staff at the Office of the President^[78]
• Jerry Agiri Williams – martial artist and former karate champion for Arizona State (US)^[79]

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