Notable Achimotans listed below are either alumni ("Akoras") or were affiliated to Achimota School as teachers. According to the Constitution of the Old Achimotan Association (OAA), alumni members who completed a full course of study and teachers who taught at the school for at least five years are considered to be full members of the OAA, and are known as Akoras. Notable Akoras are those Achimotans that have excelled or played a pioneering role in their field.
Legal and judiciary
Anna Bossman, former Acting Commissioner of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ)
Justice Samuel Kofi Date-Bah, Justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana
Justice Annie Jiagge, first female Justice of Ghana
Justice Akua Kuenyehia, first African to service as Chief Justice of the World Court at the Hague
Justice E. N. P. Sowah, former Chief Justice of Ghana
Audrey Gadzekpo, journalist and Senior Lecturer at the School of Communication Studies, University of Ghana
Kwaku Sakyi-Addo, journalist, two-time winner of Journalist of the Year Award and Ghana's former correspondent for the BBC and Reuters
Saka Acquaye, artist, sculptor, highlife and folk musician, co-founder of Black Beats Band and Wulomei
Victor Kofi Agawu, music professor, Princeton University
King Bruce, highlife musician; founder and leader of Black Beats Band; senior Civil Service official
Philip Gbeho, classical musician and composer of Ghana's national anthem
Kofi Ghanaba, aka "Guy Warren" Akwei, musician and drummer
Emmanuel Gyimah Labi, composer, ethnomusicologist, pianist and former conductor of the Ghana National Symphony Orchestra
Nyamafo Alice Chapman Nyaho, classical pianist, Professor of Music at University of Ghana
William Chapman Nyaho, classical pianist
Reggie Rockstone, musician and hip-life artiste
Bernice Ofei
Lawrence Rosario Abavana
Reginald Reynolds Amponsah
Omane Boamah
Dan Botwe
Samia Nkrumah, first female Chair of C.P.P, and former Member of Parliament of Jomoro Constituency
Benita Sena Okity-Duah
Gilchrist Olympio, Togolese politician and presidential candidate
Science and technology
Victor Lawrence, professor, telecommunications engineer, and inventor of internet connectivity
Nii Quaynor, engineer and founder of NCS (now Ghana.com)
Charles Wereko-Brobby, engineer and politician, and former CEO of Volta River Authority
Herbert Mensah, former CEO of Kumasi Asante Kotoko FC
Ernest Obeng, former world-class sprinter and Head of Broadcasting for the International Association of Athletic Federations
Ayi Kwei Armah, author of The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
Kofi Awoonor, poet, teacher, and diplomat
Cyprian Ekwensi, short-story writer, author of children's books, pharmacist and broadcaster
Nii Ayikwei Parkes, writer, author,Tail of the Blue Bird,The Makings of You
Principals and heads
James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey, first vice principal and co-founder
Rev. Alec Garden Fraser, co-founder and first principal; former principal of Trinity College, Kandy, Sri Lanka; and Gordonstoun, Scotland
Daniel A. Chapman Nyaho, first Ghanaian headmaster
Bishop Robert Stopford, former principal and former Bishop of London
Ephraim Amu, musician and composer
John Barham, English pianist, composer, arranger, producer, choirmaster and educator
Kofi Abrefa Busia, former teacher and former Prime Minister of Ghana in the 2nd Republic (1969 to 1972)
Michael Cardew, potter
Charles G. Palmer-Buckle, Metropolitan Archbishop of Roman Catholic Church, Accra
Sally Mugabe (née Hayfron), wife of President Robert Mugabe
Esther Afua Ocloo, industrialist
Theodosia Okoh, designer of Ghana's national flag
Grace Bediako
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