Wesley Girls' High School
Location
Cape Coast, Ghana
Information
Type	Public Secondary/High School
Motto	Live Pure, Speak True, Right Wrong , Follow the King
Established	1836; 188 years ago (1836)
Head of school	Mrs Jeannette Ruby Siameh
Staff	68
Number of students	1700
Color(s)	Green   and yellow
Affiliation	Wesleyan - Methodist Church
Address	P.O. Box 61 Cape Coast, Ghana
Telephone	+233 3321 32218
Houses	Bellamy, Ellis, Waldron, Wrigley, Wardbrew, Compton, Abban, Garnett Acheampong, Thompson Djokoto
Website	wesleygirls.edu.gh

Wesley Girls' High School (WGHS) is an educational institution for girls in Cape Coast in the Central region of Ghana.^[1] It was founded in 1836 by Harriet Wrigley, the wife of a Methodist minister.^[2] The school is named after the founder of Methodism, John Wesley.

Wesley Girls' High School was ranked 68th out of the top 100 best high schools in Africa by Africa Almanac in 2003, based upon quality of education, student engagement, strength and activities of alumnae, school profile, internet and news visibility.^[3]

• Won the Sprite Ball Championship in 2008 and 2016^[4]

• Rosina Acheampong, educationist, first female deputy director general of the GES, first Ghanaian headmistress of Wesley Girls High School
• Jemila Abdulai, blogger, writer and digital marketer
• Barbara Frances Ackah-Yensu, active justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana (2022–)
• Rosamond Asiamah Nkansah, 1st police woman in Ghana
• Betty Acquah, feminist painter
• Adina, musician
• Sophia Ophilia Adjeibea Adinyira, justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana (2006 – 2019)
• Dedo Difie Agyarko-Kusi, Ghana Ambassador to South Korea (2017–2021)^[5][6]
• Agnes Aggrey-Orleans, Ghanaian diplomat
• Zanetor Agyeman-Rawlings, member of parliament for Klottey Korle Constituency
• Mabel Agyemang, Chief Justice of the Turks and Caicos Islands,^[7] first female Chief Justice of The Gambia (2013-2014)
• Ama Ata Aidoo, award-winning author, academic, former Minister of Education
• Sophia Akuffo, 13th Chief Justice of Ghana
• Patience Akyianu, banker; firmerly managing director of Barclays Bank Ghana and currently CEO of Hollard Insurance
• Akosua Addai Amoo, Sports journalist
• Grace Amponsah-Ababio, a retired diplomat
• Abena Osei Asare, member of parliament for Atiwa East
• Gladys Asmah, former Minister of Fisheries
• Becca, musician
• Sylvia Boye, former Chief Executive and first female Registrar of West Africa Examinations Council
• Mary Chinery-Hesse, former civil servant and first female director of International Labor Organization, United Nations
• Melody Millicent Danquah, first female pilot in Africa
• Mercy Yvonne Debrah-Karikari, first female to be Secretary to the Cabinet
• Rita Akosua Dickson, Vice Chancellor of KNUST
• Florence Dolphyne, first female Professor and first female Pro-vice Chancellor, University of Ghana, Legon
• Efua Dorkenoo, activist
• Brigitte Dzogbenuku, Presidential candidate (2020) & Vice Presidential candidate (2016) for the Progressive People's Party
• Constance Edjeani-Afenu, first female brigadier general of the Ghana Armed Forces, Deputy Military Adviser to Ghana's permanent Mission in New York
• Mary Grant, Ghana's first female council of state member; first alumna to be a medical doctor
• Afua Adwo Jectey Hesse, chief executive officer of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital
• Avril Lovelace-Johnson, active Justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana (2019–)
• Jennifer Koranteng, model and fashion designer
• Angela Kyerematen-Jimoh, business leader and Microsoft's Financial Strategic Partnership Lead for Africa
• Eva Lokko, engineer and former managing director of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation
• Alima Mahama, lawyer and former Minister for the affairs of women and children in Ghana
• Takyiwa Manuh, Ghanaian academic and author
• Joy Henrietta Mensa-Bonsu, a law professor and active Justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana (2020–)
• Akosua Menu, deputy CEO of National Youth Authority
• Joyce Bawah Mogtari, Lawyer and Former Deputy Minister of Transport^[8]
• Emma Morrison, television personality and media professional
• Victoria Nyarko, Ghanaian politician, member of parliament in the first republic
• Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, first female Vice-Chancellor of a state University in Ghana
• Rose Constance Owusu, former justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana (2008 – 2014)
• Deborah Owusu-Bonsu, musician, television presenter and model
• Martha Akyaa Pobee, Diplomat, Permanent Member to the United Nations,
• Lucy Quist, first Ghanaian woman to become the CEO of a multinational telecommunications company in Ghana
• Mabel Simpson, fashion designer
• Hanna Tetteh, former Minister for Trade and Industry and former Minister for Foreign Affairs
• Gertrude Torkornoo, 15th Chief Justice of Ghana
• Yvonne Tsikata, international economist and first Ghanaian woman to become vice president at the World Bank
• Julia Osei Tutu, wife of Asantehene, Otumfuo Nana Osei Tutu II
• Georgina Theodora Wood, former police prosecution officer, first female Chief Justice of Ghana
• Nana Oye Mansa Yeboaa, first female deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana, and former Ghanaian diplomat
• Vida Yeboah, minister of state in the Rawlings government, former Headmistress of Mfanstiman Girls' Secondary School

• http://www.wesleygirlshighalumni.org/home/inthenews.html
• http://www.fiankoma.org/ftp/wesley_schoolsite/
• http://www.IDCE-world.org