Professor Francis Kofi Ampenyin Allotey was a Ghanaian mathematical physicist.
He was the first recipient of the Prince Philip Gold medal of the Ghana Academy of Sciences in 1973.
Professor Allotey received three Doctoral Awards in Sciences from Karlstad University, Sweden 2006, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology 2003, and the University of Cape Coast in 1998.
He was also the President of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of several international scientific organizations such as the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics Scientific Council since 1996.