# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paa-grant
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:10:54.076Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paa-grant"
name: "Paa Grant"
slug: "paa-grant"
description: "George Alfred Grant, popularly known as Paa Grant, was a merchant and politician in the Gold Coast who has been called \"the father of Gold Coast politics\". As a political activist, he was the founder, financer and the first president of the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC) in August 1947. He was also one of Ghana's Founding Fathers. He paid for Kwame Nkrumah to return to Ghana from the United States.\nA roundabout, Paa Grant Roundabout has been named after George Grant in Sekondi Takoradi in his memory.\nMany opinion leaders have said it will be right to mention his name in the struggle for Ghana's independence the same vein as the 'Big Six '."
tagline: "Ghanian politician (1878–1956)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Paa_Grant.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1878-08-15"
deathDate: "1956-10-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.69
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.486214666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paa_Grant"
    title: "Paa Grant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://dag.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paa_Grant"
    title: "Paa Grant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paa_Grant"
    title: "Paa Grant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B9%94%E6%B2%BB%C2%B7%E9%98%BF%E5%B0%94%E5%BC%97%E9%9B%B7%E5%BE%B7%C2%B7%E6%A0%BC%E5%85%B0%E7%89%B9"
    title: "乔治·阿尔弗雷德·格兰特"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paa_Grant"
    title: "Paa Grant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paa_Grant"
    title: "Paa Grant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2645027"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump