Lebrecht Wilhelm Fifi Hesse (16 November 1934 – 18 October 2000) was a Ghanaian public servant and the first black African Rhodes Scholar.
In 1952, while at the Accra Academy, he won a national essay competition that was organised by the then Gold Coast authorities to mark the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
That same year, he applied for postgraduate study and won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University, becoming the first black African and the first Ghanaian for that matter to achieve this feat.
[18] He served in that capacity until 1975 when he was appointed Principal Assistant Secretary for the Ministry of Education and Culture as an administrator in the Ghana Civil Service.
[19][20] Fifi Hesse was moved to be a member of the Administrative Corps of the Osu Castle which was the Ghanaian seat of government.