Asante (name)
Asante is both an Ashanti surname and a masculine Ashanti given name. Notable people with the Ashanti name include:
As a surname
- Akwasi Asante, Dutch footballer
- Amma Asante, British film director and producer
- Amma Asante (politician), Dutch politician
- Anita Asante, English footballer
- David Asante, Akan Basel missionary, linguist, and educator
- Ernest Asante, Ghanaian footballer
- Eugene Asante, American football player
- Gyearbuor Asante, Ghanaian actor
- K. B. Asante, Ghanaian diplomat
- Kofi Asante Ofori-Atta, Ghanaian politician
- Kyle Asante, English footballer
- Larry Asante, American football player
- Molefi Kete Asante, American writer, scholar, historian, and philosopher
- M. K. Asante Jr., American writer, filmmaker, and professor
- Okyerema Asante, Ghanaian drummer
- Raymond Asante, Ghanaian footballer
- Sarah Asante, Ghanaian commissioner and executive producer, BBC and UKTV
- Shaheera Asante, British radio and television presenter
- Solomon Asante, Ghanaian footballer
- Uriah Asante, Ghanaian footballer
- Yaw Asante, Ghanaian footballer
As a given name
- Asante Blackk, American actor
- Asante Cleveland, American football player
- Asante Gullit Okyere, Italian football player
- Asante Samuel, American football player
- Asante Samuel Jr., American football player
In fiction
- Mr Asante, a Ghanaian barber shop owner played by Samuel Frimpong in the British web series Corner Shop Show.