title: Adewale
text: # Adewale
  
  Adéwálé is both a given name and a surname of Yoruba origin, meaning "the crown or royalty has come home". Notable people with the name include:
  
  ## Given name
  
  * Adewale Ademoyega (born c.1934), Nigerian Army officer
  * Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (born 1967), British actor and model
  * Prince Adewale Aladesanmi (1938–2017), Nigerian businessman
  * Adewale Sunday Amusan (born 1989), Nigerian footballer
  * Adewale Ayuba (born 1966), Nigerian singer-songwriter
  * Adewale Maja-Pearce (born 1953), Anglo-Nigerian writer, journalist and literary critic
  * Adewale Ogunleye (born 1977), American football player
  * Adewale Ojomo (born 1988), American football player
  * Adewale Olukoju (born 1968), Nigerian discus thrower and shot putter
  * Adewale Tinubu (born 1967), Nigerian businessman, consultant and lawyer
  * Adewale Wahab (born 1984), Nigerian footballer
  
  ## Surname
  
  * Segun Adewale (born 1955), Nigerian musician
  
  ## Fictional characters
  
  * Adéwalé, a character in the video game series Assassin's Creed
  