Nkrumah is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Aaron Nkrumah (born 2001), American basketball player Daniel Nkrumah (born 2003), English footballer Fathia Nkrumah (1932–2007), wife of Kwame Nkrumah and First Lady of Ghana Gamal Nkrumah (born 1959), Ghanaian journalist Kwame Nkrumah (1909–1972), the first Prime Minister and then first President of Ghana Samia Nkrumah (born 1960), Ghanaian journalist and politician Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong (born 1979), Ghanaian skier Kojo Oppong Nkrumah (born 1982), a Ghanaian journalist, politician and lawyer
See also Nkrumah University, a university in Zambia. Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, a university in Kumasi, Ghana. Kwame Nkrumah Ideological Institute, a former educational institute in Winneba, Ghana. Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum, a memorial in Accra, Ghana, dedicated to Kwame Nkrumah. FPSO Kwame Nkrumah, an oil storage and offloading vessel named after Kwame Nkrumah.