# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-ofori-atta
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:12:52.482Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-ofori-atta"
name: "William Ofori Atta"
slug: "william-ofori-atta"
description: "William Ofori Atta, popularly called \"Paa Willie\", was a Ghanaian founding member of the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC) and one of the founding fathers of Ghana as one of \"The Big Six\" detained by the British colonial government in the then Gold Coast. He later became a Minister for Foreign Affairs in Ghana's second republic between 1971 and 1972."
tagline: "Ghanaian politician, lawyer and former foreign minister of Ghana (1910-1988)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8f/William_Ofori_Atta_a_Ghanaian_politician.jpg/330px-William_Ofori_Atta_a_Ghanaian_politician.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1910-10-10"
deathDate: "1988-07-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.34
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.949425333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%89_%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A7"
    title: "ويليام اوفورى اتا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://dag.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ofori_Atta"
    title: "William Ofori Atta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ofori-Atta"
    title: "William Ofori-Atta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ofori_Atta"
    title: "William Ofori Atta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ofori_Atta"
    title: "William Ofori Atta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gpe.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ofori_Atta"
    title: "William Ofori Atta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gur.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ofori_Atta"
    title: "William Ofori Atta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ofori_Atta"
    title: "William Ofori Atta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://kus.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ofori_Atta"
    title: "William Ofori Atta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2580160"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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