Kwaku (disambiguation)

Kwaku alternatively Kweku is an Ashanti given name to Ashanti male children born on Wednesday from the Ashanti people ethnic group

Kwaku and Kweku may refer to:

People

Kwaku

• Kwaku Alston, American photographer
• Kwaku Boateng (athlete) (born 1974), Canadian high jumper
• Kwaku Boateng (politician) (died 2006), cabinet minister in Ghana in the early 1960s
• Kwaku Dua I Panyin, or Barima Fredua Agyeman, (c. 1797–1867), eighth King of the Kingdom of Ashanti from 1834 until death in 1867
• Kwaku Dua III Asamu or Prempeh I (1870–1931), thirteenth King of Asante state of the Kingdom of Ashanti from 1888 until his death in 1931
• Kwaku Sakyi-Addo, Ghanaian journalist
• Kwaku Sintim-Misa aka KSM (born 1956), Ghanaian actor, director, satirist, talk show host and author
• Kwaku Walker Lewis (1798–1856), African-American abolitionist and active member of the Underground Railroad and the anti-slavery movement

Middle name

• B. Kwaku Duren (born 1943); aka Robert Donaldson Duren and Bob D. Duren, controversial African American lawyer, educator, writer, editor, Black Panther, long-time social, political and community activist
• Edward Kwaku Utuka, major general of the Ghana Armed Forces
• Nana Kwaku Bonsam (born 1973), Ghanaian witch doctor and fetish priest
• Papa Kwaku Oppong (born 1987), Canadian basketball player
• Rebop Kwaku Baah, (1944–1983), Ghanaian percussionist best known for working with the 1970s rock groups Traffic and Can
• Thomas Kwaku Mensah (1935–2016), Roman Catholic archbishop of the Archdiocese of Kumasi, Ghana

Kweku

• Kweku Adoboli (born 1980), Ghanaian ex-trader known for his role in the 2011 UBS rogue trader scandal and convicted of fraud in 2012
• Chief Kweku Andoh (1836-1898), military officer in the British army and Regent of Edina State (1873-1898)
• Kweku Anno, Ghanaian engineer and inventor
• Kweku Baako Jnr, Ghanaian journalist and editor
• Kweku Essien (born 1984), Ghanaian football (soccer) player