Asante (name)
Asante is both an Ashanti surname and a masculine Ashanti given name. Notable people with the Ashanti name include:
Surname:
- Akwasi Asante (born 1992), Dutch footballer
- Amma Asante (born 1969), British film director and producer
- Anita Asante (born 1985), English footballer
- Ernest Asante (born 1988), Ghanaian footballer
- Gyearbuor Asante (1941–2000), Ghanaian actor
- Kofi Asante Ofori-Atta, Ghanaian politician
- Kyle Asante (born 1991), English footballer
- Larry Asante (born 1988), American football player
- Molefi Kete Asante (born 1942), American writer, scholar, historian, and philosopher
- M.K. Asante, Jr. (born 1982), American writer, filmmaker, and professor
- Okyerema Asante, Ghanaian drummer
- Richard Asante (born 1985), Canadian-Ghanaian footballer
- Shaheera Asante (born 1966), British radio and television presenter
- Solomon Asante (born 1990), Ghanaian footballer
- Wiafe Asante Mensah, Ghanaian musician
- Yaw Asante (born 1991), Ghanaian footballer
Give name:
- Asante Cleveland (born 1992), American football player
- Asante Gullit Okyere (born 1988), Ghanaian footballer
- Asante Samuel (born 1981), American football player
- Iman Asante Shumpert (born 1990), NBA player
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