Notable People

Name: Ghana Notable People
Creator: Wikidata
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Ghanaian citizens with a Wikidata record — musicians, athletes, writers, politicians, academics and business figures — with occupation, birth and death years and birthplace. Sourced from Wikidata, CC0. 7923 records.

v1.0last updated Sep 18, 2026 · snapshotlisting updated Sep 18, 2026GH₵29.007,923 recordsCulture

Fields

Every column this dataset returns, with its type. This is the shape of the API response.

Field	Type
name	TEXT NOT NULL
description	TEXT
occupation	TEXT
birth_year	INTEGER
death_year	INTEGER
birthplace	TEXT
gender	TEXT
wikidata_id	TEXT
source	TEXT

Preview

five records, free

First 5 rows of Notable People
nameTEXT NOT NULL	descriptionTEXT	occupationTEXT	birth yearINTEGER	death yearINTEGER	birthplaceTEXT	genderTEXT	wikidata idTEXT	sourceTEXT
1ucid	ghanaian-Nigerian musician	record producer	—	—	Accra	male	Q116694142	Wikidata (CC0)
4. John Baidoo	Ghanaian Politician	—	—	—	—	male	Q107468981	Wikidata (CC0)
A. A. Amartey	Writer	writer	—	—	—	male	Q117356969	Wikidata (CC0)
A. Adomako	Ghanaian politician	politician	1922	2016	—	male	Q16001285	Wikidata (CC0)
A. B. Crentsil	Ghanaian musicians	composer	1943	2022	Prestea	male	Q4647546	Wikidata (CC0)

nameTEXT NOT NULL	descriptionTEXT	occupationTEXT	birth yearINTEGER	death yearINTEGER	birthplaceTEXT	genderTEXT	wikidata idTEXT	sourceTEXT
example-name-1	example-description-1	example-occupation-1	10	10	example-birthplace-1	example-gender-1	10	example-source-1
example-name-2	example-description-2	example-occupation-2	20	20	example-birthplace-2	example-gender-2	20	example-source-2
example-name-3	example-description-3	example-occupation-3	30	30	example-birthplace-3	example-gender-3	30	example-source-3
example-name-4	example-description-4	example-occupation-4	40	40	example-birthplace-4	example-gender-4	40	example-source-4
example-name-5	example-description-5	example-occupation-5	50	50	example-birthplace-5	example-gender-5	50	example-source-5
example-name-6	example-description-6	example-occupation-6	60	60	example-birthplace-6	example-gender-6	60	example-source-6
example-name-7	example-description-7	example-occupation-7	70	70	example-birthplace-7	example-gender-7	70	example-source-7
example-name-8	example-description-8	example-occupation-8	80	80	example-birthplace-8	example-gender-8	80	example-source-8

7,918 more rows — see the plans

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Endpoint

GET connect.apighana.com/api/data/notable_people

Auth: X-API-Key header
Pagination: page · limit
Format: JSON
Version: 1.0
Last updated: Sep 18, 2026from the source
Covers: A snapshotas of Sep 18, 2026
Refreshed: monthly
Last checked: Oct 1, 2026looked right
Source: Wikidata

How to cite

Cite this dataset and the organisation its records come from (Wikidata). Datasets are updated, so keep the date you accessed it in the citation. Last updated from the source on Sep 18, 2026.

API Ghana. (2026). Notable people (Version 1.0) [Data set, compiled from Wikidata]. Retrieved October 1, 2026, from https://apighana.com/datasets/notable-people

Code samples

cURL

curl "https://connect.apighana.com/api/data/notable_people?page=1&limit=20" \
  -H "X-API-Key: $APIGHANA_KEY"

JavaScript

const response = await fetch(
  "https://connect.apighana.com/api/data/notable_people?page=1&limit=20",
  { headers: { "X-API-Key": process.env.APIGHANA_KEY } },
);

const { data, meta } = await response.json();

Python

import os, requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://connect.apighana.com/api/data/notable_people",
    headers={"X-API-Key": os.environ["APIGHANA_KEY"]},
    params={"page": 1, "limit": 20},
)

rows = response.json()["data"]

Field

Type

name

TEXT NOT NULL

description

TEXT

occupation

TEXT

birth_year

INTEGER

death_year

INTEGER

birthplace

TEXT

gender

TEXT

wikidata_id

TEXT

source

TEXT

nameTEXT NOT NULL

descriptionTEXT

occupationTEXT

birth yearINTEGER

death yearINTEGER

birthplaceTEXT

genderTEXT

wikidata idTEXT

sourceTEXT

1ucid

ghanaian-Nigerian musician

record producer

—

Accra

male

Q116694142

Wikidata (CC0)

4. John Baidoo

Ghanaian Politician

—

male

Q107468981

Wikidata (CC0)

A. A. Amartey

Writer

writer

—

male

Q117356969

Wikidata (CC0)

A. Adomako

Ghanaian politician

politician

1922

2016

—

male

Q16001285

Wikidata (CC0)

A. B. Crentsil

Ghanaian musicians

composer

1943

2022

Prestea

male

Q4647546

Wikidata (CC0)

nameTEXT NOT NULL

descriptionTEXT

occupationTEXT

birth yearINTEGER

death yearINTEGER

birthplaceTEXT

genderTEXT

wikidata idTEXT

sourceTEXT

example-name-1

example-description-1

example-occupation-1

example-birthplace-1

example-gender-1

example-source-1

example-name-2

example-description-2

example-occupation-2

example-birthplace-2

example-gender-2

example-source-2

example-name-3

example-description-3

example-occupation-3

example-birthplace-3

example-gender-3

example-source-3

example-name-4

example-description-4

example-occupation-4

example-birthplace-4

example-gender-4

example-source-4

example-name-5

example-description-5

example-occupation-5

example-birthplace-5

example-gender-5

example-source-5

example-name-6

example-description-6

example-occupation-6

example-birthplace-6

example-gender-6

example-source-6

example-name-7

example-description-7

example-occupation-7

example-birthplace-7

example-gender-7

example-source-7

example-name-8

example-description-8

example-occupation-8

example-birthplace-8

example-gender-8

example-source-8

How to cite

Cite this dataset and the organisation its records come from (Wikidata). Datasets are updated, so keep the date you accessed it in the citation. Last updated from the source on Sep 18, 2026.

API Ghana. (2026). Notable people (Version 1.0) [Data set, compiled from Wikidata]. Retrieved October 1, 2026, from https://apighana.com/datasets/notable-people

Code samples

cURL

curl "https://connect.apighana.com/api/data/notable_people?page=1&limit=20" \
  -H "X-API-Key: $APIGHANA_KEY"

JavaScript

const response = await fetch(
  "https://connect.apighana.com/api/data/notable_people?page=1&limit=20",
  { headers: { "X-API-Key": process.env.APIGHANA_KEY } },
);

const { data, meta } = await response.json();

Python

import os, requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://connect.apighana.com/api/data/notable_people",
    headers={"X-API-Key": os.environ["APIGHANA_KEY"]},
    params={"page": 1, "limit": 20},
)

rows = response.json()["data"]